Triple

T15791072
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hayden White E382863 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Practical Past
The Practical Past is a work by historian and theorist Hayden White that explores how societies use and interpret the past in everyday life, beyond formal historical scholarship.
E1177333 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: The Practical Past | Statement: [Hayden White, notableWork, The Practical Past]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Practical Past
Context triple: [Hayden White, notableWork, The Practical Past]
  • A. 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.
  • B. The Making of a Historian
    The Making of a Historian is a reflective work by British historian Sir John H. Plumb in which he examines the craft, development, and responsibilities of the professional historian.
  • C. The Uses and Abuses of History
    The Uses and Abuses of History is a book by historian Margaret MacMillan that examines how historical narratives are constructed and how they can be responsibly used or dangerously misused in contemporary politics and public life.
  • D. The Sense of the Past
    The Sense of the Past is an unfinished time-travel novel by Henry James about a modern man who is mysteriously transported into early 19th-century London.
  • E. The Writing of History
    The Writing of History is a seminal work by Michel de Certeau that critically examines how historical narratives are constructed, emphasizing the interplay between power, discourse, and the practice of writing history.
  • 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: The Practical Past
Triple: [Hayden White, notableWork, The Practical Past]
Generated description
The Practical Past is a work by historian and theorist Hayden White that explores how societies use and interpret the past in everyday life, beyond formal historical scholarship.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Practical Past
Target entity description: The Practical Past is a work by historian and theorist Hayden White that explores how societies use and interpret the past in everyday life, beyond formal historical scholarship.
  • A. 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.
  • B. The Making of a Historian
    The Making of a Historian is a reflective work by British historian Sir John H. Plumb in which he examines the craft, development, and responsibilities of the professional historian.
  • C. The Uses and Abuses of History
    The Uses and Abuses of History is a book by historian Margaret MacMillan that examines how historical narratives are constructed and how they can be responsibly used or dangerously misused in contemporary politics and public life.
  • D. The Sense of the Past
    The Sense of the Past is an unfinished time-travel novel by Henry James about a modern man who is mysteriously transported into early 19th-century London.
  • E. The Writing of History
    The Writing of History is a seminal work by Michel de Certeau that critically examines how historical narratives are constructed, emphasizing the interplay between power, discourse, and the practice of writing history.
  • 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_69d86da16e188190b89af699f1ed0bfe completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e0b4d819c881908bc43a6124a1bb2e completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff90a87e3c8190a1c5b13cbfdff54a completed May 9, 2026, 7:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff949339b88190bd105ffa0c169b54 completed May 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff950e053881908d207f4c172e2ea4 completed May 9, 2026, 8:11 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:48 a.m.