Triple

T1510954
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hal Abelson E32009 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion
"Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion" is a non-fiction book that explores how the digital revolution transforms privacy, security, freedom, and everyday life in the information age.
E172388 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion | Statement: [Hal Abelson, notableWork, Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion
Context triple: [Hal Abelson, notableWork, Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion]
  • A. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
    The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires is a nonfiction book that examines the recurring cycle of openness and monopolistic control in communications and information industries throughout modern history.
  • B. Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free
    "Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free" is a nonfiction book by Cory Doctorow that critiques modern copyright and digital rights regimes while advocating for open culture and user freedoms in the digital age.
  • C. Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives
    "Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives" is a nonfiction book by Randi Zuckerberg that explores the impact of digital technology and social media on modern life and offers guidance on achieving a healthier tech-life balance.
  • D. The Age of Spiritual Machines
    The Age of Spiritual Machines is a futurist book by Ray Kurzweil that predicts the evolution of artificial intelligence and its profound impact on human society and consciousness.
  • E. The Future of Ideas
    The Future of Ideas is a book by legal scholar Lawrence Lessig that examines how excessive intellectual property regulation threatens innovation, creativity, and the openness of the digital commons.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion
Triple: [Hal Abelson, notableWork, Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion]
Generated description
"Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion" is a non-fiction book that explores how the digital revolution transforms privacy, security, freedom, and everyday life in the information age.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion
Target entity description: "Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion" is a non-fiction book that explores how the digital revolution transforms privacy, security, freedom, and everyday life in the information age.
  • A. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
    The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires is a nonfiction book that examines the recurring cycle of openness and monopolistic control in communications and information industries throughout modern history.
  • B. Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free
    "Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free" is a nonfiction book by Cory Doctorow that critiques modern copyright and digital rights regimes while advocating for open culture and user freedoms in the digital age.
  • C. Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives
    "Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives" is a nonfiction book by Randi Zuckerberg that explores the impact of digital technology and social media on modern life and offers guidance on achieving a healthier tech-life balance.
  • D. The Age of Spiritual Machines
    The Age of Spiritual Machines is a futurist book by Ray Kurzweil that predicts the evolution of artificial intelligence and its profound impact on human society and consciousness.
  • E. The Future of Ideas
    The Future of Ideas is a book by legal scholar Lawrence Lessig that examines how excessive intellectual property regulation threatens innovation, creativity, and the openness of the digital commons.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69a885e8caf88190a5fbb6159ce87786 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a907d4edd48190a03c85e1a0cc02b1 completed March 5, 2026, 4:34 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad233e6e748190929b3f339cc9bd4b completed March 8, 2026, 7:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad23e279e88190ae341af34ea98487 completed March 8, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad24f7d8b081909241ab3995172f4d completed March 8, 2026, 7:27 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:26 p.m.