Triple

T15960037
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Walter Kirn E387033 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Lost in the Meritocracy
Lost in the Meritocracy is Walter Kirn’s memoir chronicling his rise through elite American educational institutions and the personal and cultural costs of chasing academic prestige.
E1186242 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: Lost in the Meritocracy | Statement: [Walter Kirn, notableWork, Lost in the Meritocracy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lost in the Meritocracy
Context triple: [Walter Kirn, notableWork, Lost in the Meritocracy]
  • A. The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
    "The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?" is a philosophical and political critique by Michael Sandel that examines how meritocracy fuels inequality, moral judgment, and social division in contemporary democracies.
  • B. IQ in the Meritocracy
    "IQ in the Meritocracy" is a controversial 1973 book by psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein that argues intelligence, as measured by IQ, plays a central role in determining social and economic status in modern societies.
  • C. The Talent Myth
    The Talent Myth is a Malcolm Gladwell essay that critiques the corporate obsession with innate talent and star performers, arguing it often undermines organizational success.
  • D. The Stalled Society
    The Stalled Society is a sociological work by Michel Crozier analyzing the structural and cultural causes of institutional paralysis and resistance to change in modern societies, particularly France.
  • E. The Spirit Level
    The Spirit Level is a 1996 poetry collection by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney that reflects on balance, memory, and the political and personal landscapes of Ireland.
  • 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: Lost in the Meritocracy
Triple: [Walter Kirn, notableWork, Lost in the Meritocracy]
Generated description
Lost in the Meritocracy is Walter Kirn’s memoir chronicling his rise through elite American educational institutions and the personal and cultural costs of chasing academic prestige.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lost in the Meritocracy
Target entity description: Lost in the Meritocracy is Walter Kirn’s memoir chronicling his rise through elite American educational institutions and the personal and cultural costs of chasing academic prestige.
  • A. The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
    "The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?" is a philosophical and political critique by Michael Sandel that examines how meritocracy fuels inequality, moral judgment, and social division in contemporary democracies.
  • B. IQ in the Meritocracy
    "IQ in the Meritocracy" is a controversial 1973 book by psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein that argues intelligence, as measured by IQ, plays a central role in determining social and economic status in modern societies.
  • C. The Talent Myth
    The Talent Myth is a Malcolm Gladwell essay that critiques the corporate obsession with innate talent and star performers, arguing it often undermines organizational success.
  • D. The Stalled Society
    The Stalled Society is a sociological work by Michel Crozier analyzing the structural and cultural causes of institutional paralysis and resistance to change in modern societies, particularly France.
  • E. The Spirit Level
    The Spirit Level is a 1996 poetry collection by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney that reflects on balance, memory, and the political and personal landscapes of Ireland.
  • 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_69d86da882448190a82ea962fe343b79 completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e156fe82d081908b5d41bc5a709de2 completed April 16, 2026, 9:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffbe806ef4819095a4dfe104d0bdc8 completed May 9, 2026, 11:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffbf61b2ec81909c0f32613bb91a82 completed May 9, 2026, 11:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffbfddd0348190baab794f613c71bf completed May 9, 2026, 11:14 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:53 a.m.