Triple

T17175531
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Barry W. Boehm E416848 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II
"Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II" is a foundational book that presents and explains the COCOMO II model for predicting software development effort, cost, and schedule.
E1254550 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: Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II | Statement: [Barry W. Boehm, notableWork, Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II
Context triple: [Barry W. Boehm, notableWork, Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II]
  • A. A Discipline for Software Engineering
    "A Discipline for Software Engineering" is a book by Watts S. Humphrey that introduces and explains the Personal Software Process (PSP), a structured methodology for individual software engineers to improve the quality and predictability of their work.
  • B. Essence: The Software Engineering Method
    "Essence: The Software Engineering Method" is a framework introduced by Ivar Jacobson that defines a common, lightweight kernel and language for describing and improving software engineering practices.
  • C. IEEE software engineering standards collection
    The IEEE software engineering standards collection is a comprehensive set of internationally recognized guidelines and best practices that define processes, documentation, and quality criteria across the software development lifecycle.
  • D. No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering
    "No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering" is a seminal essay arguing that no single technology or practice will yield dramatic, order-of-magnitude improvements in software productivity, reliability, or simplicity.
  • E. Software Engineering with Ada
    Software Engineering with Ada is a foundational textbook that applies modern software engineering principles and object-oriented design techniques to the Ada programming language, widely used in safety-critical and real-time systems.
  • 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: Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II
Triple: [Barry W. Boehm, notableWork, Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II]
Generated description
"Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II" is a foundational book that presents and explains the COCOMO II model for predicting software development effort, cost, and schedule.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II
Target entity description: "Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II" is a foundational book that presents and explains the COCOMO II model for predicting software development effort, cost, and schedule.
  • A. A Discipline for Software Engineering
    "A Discipline for Software Engineering" is a book by Watts S. Humphrey that introduces and explains the Personal Software Process (PSP), a structured methodology for individual software engineers to improve the quality and predictability of their work.
  • B. Essence: The Software Engineering Method
    "Essence: The Software Engineering Method" is a framework introduced by Ivar Jacobson that defines a common, lightweight kernel and language for describing and improving software engineering practices.
  • C. IEEE software engineering standards collection
    The IEEE software engineering standards collection is a comprehensive set of internationally recognized guidelines and best practices that define processes, documentation, and quality criteria across the software development lifecycle.
  • D. No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering
    "No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering" is a seminal essay arguing that no single technology or practice will yield dramatic, order-of-magnitude improvements in software productivity, reliability, or simplicity.
  • E. Software Engineering with Ada
    Software Engineering with Ada is a foundational textbook that applies modern software engineering principles and object-oriented design techniques to the Ada programming language, widely used in safety-critical and real-time systems.
  • 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_69d886d5f34c8190b24564dfaa63f3fb completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3fc0cec448190b30466628a2ff23f completed April 18, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0148435f6081909bfc6cc1ef59d971 completed May 11, 2026, 3:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a014a4fdcf081908be68b1eda2066df completed May 11, 2026, 3:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a014adf25808190ad712fbd7560e91d completed May 11, 2026, 3:19 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:37 a.m.