Triple

T15478926
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Science and Civilisation in China E376860 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object Volume 7: The Social Background
Volume 7: The Social Background is a volume in Joseph Needham’s "Science and Civilisation in China" series that examines the social, cultural, and institutional contexts that shaped scientific and technological development in Chinese history.
E1159709 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: Volume 7: The Social Background | Statement: [Science and Civilisation in China, hasPart, Volume 7: The Social Background]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Volume 7: The Social Background
Context triple: [Science and Civilisation in China, hasPart, Volume 7: The Social Background]
  • A. Seventy Years of Life and Labor
    Seventy Years of Life and Labor is the autobiography of American labor leader Samuel Gompers, chronicling his personal history and the development of the U.S. labor movement.
  • B. The Social System
    The Social System is a foundational sociological work by Talcott Parsons that systematically outlines his theory of social action and the structural-functional organization of society.
  • C. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
    "What Social Classes Owe to Each Other" is an 1883 collection of essays by sociologist William Graham Sumner that argues for limited government, individual responsibility, and laissez-faire economics in the relations between social classes.
  • D. The Social Struggle
    "The Social Struggle" is an episode of the nature documentary series *The Private Life of Plants* that explores how plants compete and cooperate for resources, survival, and reproduction.
  • E. Pillars of Society
    "Pillars of Society" is a satirical 1926 painting by German artist George Grosz that harshly criticizes the hypocrisy and corruption of Weimar-era political and social elites.
  • 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: Volume 7: The Social Background
Triple: [Science and Civilisation in China, hasPart, Volume 7: The Social Background]
Generated description
Volume 7: The Social Background is a volume in Joseph Needham’s "Science and Civilisation in China" series that examines the social, cultural, and institutional contexts that shaped scientific and technological development in Chinese history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Volume 7: The Social Background
Target entity description: Volume 7: The Social Background is a volume in Joseph Needham’s "Science and Civilisation in China" series that examines the social, cultural, and institutional contexts that shaped scientific and technological development in Chinese history.
  • A. Seventy Years of Life and Labor
    Seventy Years of Life and Labor is the autobiography of American labor leader Samuel Gompers, chronicling his personal history and the development of the U.S. labor movement.
  • B. The Social System
    The Social System is a foundational sociological work by Talcott Parsons that systematically outlines his theory of social action and the structural-functional organization of society.
  • C. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
    "What Social Classes Owe to Each Other" is an 1883 collection of essays by sociologist William Graham Sumner that argues for limited government, individual responsibility, and laissez-faire economics in the relations between social classes.
  • D. The Social Struggle
    "The Social Struggle" is an episode of the nature documentary series *The Private Life of Plants* that explores how plants compete and cooperate for resources, survival, and reproduction.
  • E. Pillars of Society
    "Pillars of Society" is a satirical 1926 painting by German artist George Grosz that harshly criticizes the hypocrisy and corruption of Weimar-era political and social elites.
  • 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_69d85cd21dcc81908646251b1c26ea00 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e03f8a77a081909f12f13660452f4a completed April 16, 2026, 1:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff2d0b3e7881908f195701fe222371 completed May 9, 2026, 12:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff2e4010dc8190b0f81d03acf8ba41 completed May 9, 2026, 12:53 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff310c2d5c819093295c45307176ec completed May 9, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:34 a.m.