Triple

T15478934
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Science and Civilisation in China E376860 entity
Predicate laterEditor P41706 FINISHED
Object Mark Elvin
Mark Elvin is a historian and sinologist known for his influential work on Chinese environmental and economic history.
E1174690 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: Mark Elvin | Statement: [Science and Civilisation in China, laterEditor, Mark Elvin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mark Elvin
Context triple: [Science and Civilisation in China, laterEditor, Mark Elvin]
  • A. Stephen Youll
    Stephen Youll is a British science fiction and fantasy artist renowned for his detailed cover illustrations for major genre novels.
  • B. Michael Harnett
    Michael Harnett is the birth name of Michael Hartnett, a prominent Irish poet known for his lyrical work in both English and Irish.
  • C. Paul Eldridge
    Paul Eldridge was an American writer, poet, and educator best known for his philosophical and speculative fiction, often co-authored with George Sylvester Viereck.
  • D. Jonathan Gledhill
    Jonathan Gledhill was an English Anglican bishop who served in senior episcopal roles in the Church of England, including as Bishop of Stafford.
  • E. Michael Sayers
    Michael Sayers was a screenwriter known for contributing to the script of the 1967 satirical James Bond film "Casino Royale."
  • 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: Mark Elvin
Triple: [Science and Civilisation in China, laterEditor, Mark Elvin]
Generated description
Mark Elvin is a historian and sinologist known for his influential work on Chinese environmental and economic history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mark Elvin
Target entity description: Mark Elvin is a historian and sinologist known for his influential work on Chinese environmental and economic history.
  • A. Stephen Youll
    Stephen Youll is a British science fiction and fantasy artist renowned for his detailed cover illustrations for major genre novels.
  • B. Michael Harnett
    Michael Harnett is the birth name of Michael Hartnett, a prominent Irish poet known for his lyrical work in both English and Irish.
  • C. Paul Eldridge
    Paul Eldridge was an American writer, poet, and educator best known for his philosophical and speculative fiction, often co-authored with George Sylvester Viereck.
  • D. Jonathan Gledhill
    Jonathan Gledhill was an English Anglican bishop who served in senior episcopal roles in the Church of England, including as Bishop of Stafford.
  • E. Michael Sayers
    Michael Sayers was a screenwriter known for contributing to the script of the 1967 satirical James Bond film "Casino Royale."
  • 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_69ff8759922c8190ae5a5700e3ecc87c completed May 9, 2026, 7:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff87f0eed08190a0eaffb4a32f1eae completed May 9, 2026, 7:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff88ba20788190aeadd14e56c510db completed May 9, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:34 a.m.