Triple

T17185721
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Nichols E417100 entity
Predicate coAuthorOf P2389 FINISHED
Object The Death and Life of American Journalism E1256346 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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 Death and Life of American Journalism | Statement: [John Nichols, coAuthorOf, The Death and Life of American Journalism]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Death and Life of American Journalism
Context triple: [John Nichols, coAuthorOf, The Death and Life of American Journalism]
  • A. The Death and Life of American Journalism chosen
    The Death and Life of American Journalism is a nonfiction book that critiques the decline of U.S. news media and advocates for public policies to sustain robust, democratic journalism.
  • B. The Politics of Journalism
    "The Politics of Journalism" is a book by British journalist and commentator Peregrine Worsthorne that critically examines the role, power, and ethical responsibilities of the press in modern democratic society.
  • C. Media Circus: The Trouble with America’s Newspapers
    "Media Circus: The Trouble with America’s Newspapers" is a critical nonfiction book by media journalist Howard Kurtz that examines the failures, biases, and structural problems of the American newspaper industry.
  • D. The Brass Check
    The Brass Check is a 1919 exposé by Upton Sinclair that harshly criticizes the American newspaper industry for corruption, bias, and manipulation of public opinion.
  • E. The Myth of the Liberal Media
    The Myth of the Liberal Media is a critical work that challenges the notion of media objectivity in the United States, arguing that mainstream news outlets systematically reflect and reinforce corporate and elite interests.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69e42d962b988190bdbba81ac63c7e6e completed April 19, 2026, 1:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a016747a8908190a7ce1408abc70c47 completed May 11, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:37 a.m.