Triple

T15249748
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Barbara Tuchman E364486 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object A Distant Mirror
A Distant Mirror is a popular historical study by Barbara Tuchman that examines the crises and culture of 14th-century Europe as a reflection of the modern world.
E1144937 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: A Distant Mirror | Statement: [Barbara Tuchman, notableWork, A Distant Mirror]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Distant Mirror
Context triple: [Barbara Tuchman, notableWork, A Distant Mirror]
  • A. The Lessons of History
    The Lessons of History is a concise, thematic survey of human civilization by Will and Ariel Durant that distills key patterns and insights from their multi-volume The Story of Civilization.
  • B. The Meaning of History
    The Meaning of History is a philosophical work by Russian religious thinker Nicolas Berdyaev that explores the spiritual and existential significance of historical events and humanity’s destiny.
  • C. The History of History
    The History of History is a short story included in the collection *The First Person and Other Stories* by Ali Smith.
  • D. The Practice of History
    The Practice of History is a seminal methodological work in which historian Sir Geoffrey Elton defends traditional, evidence-based archival scholarship and critiques theoretical and speculative approaches to writing history.
  • E. A Special Providence
    A Special Providence is a semi-autobiographical novel by Richard Yates that follows a troubled young soldier and his eccentric mother during and after World War II, exploring themes of failure, disillusionment, and the elusive American Dream.
  • 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: A Distant Mirror
Triple: [Barbara Tuchman, notableWork, A Distant Mirror]
Generated description
A Distant Mirror is a popular historical study by Barbara Tuchman that examines the crises and culture of 14th-century Europe as a reflection of the modern world.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Distant Mirror
Target entity description: A Distant Mirror is a popular historical study by Barbara Tuchman that examines the crises and culture of 14th-century Europe as a reflection of the modern world.
  • A. The Lessons of History
    The Lessons of History is a concise, thematic survey of human civilization by Will and Ariel Durant that distills key patterns and insights from their multi-volume The Story of Civilization.
  • B. The Meaning of History
    The Meaning of History is a philosophical work by Russian religious thinker Nicolas Berdyaev that explores the spiritual and existential significance of historical events and humanity’s destiny.
  • C. The History of History
    The History of History is a short story included in the collection *The First Person and Other Stories* by Ali Smith.
  • D. The Practice of History
    The Practice of History is a seminal methodological work in which historian Sir Geoffrey Elton defends traditional, evidence-based archival scholarship and critiques theoretical and speculative approaches to writing history.
  • E. A Special Providence
    A Special Providence is a semi-autobiographical novel by Richard Yates that follows a troubled young soldier and his eccentric mother during and after World War II, exploring themes of failure, disillusionment, and the elusive American Dream.
  • 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_69d85a0dde7481908fc64d1e82d5d20d completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e007f62b9c8190b9ad40e2d1912b63 completed April 15, 2026, 9:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fedd4ac4e48190b011b34cb5205b68 completed May 9, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fedeb0c4cc81908529ae29f8080ef2 completed May 9, 2026, 7:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fedfa514808190b4a50e87833c5f69 completed May 9, 2026, 7:17 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:13 a.m.