Triple
T18086098
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Marshall McLuhan |
E432837
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Herbert Marshall McLuhan |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
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: Herbert Marshall McLuhan | Statement: [Marshall McLuhan, fullName, Herbert Marshall McLuhan]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herbert Marshall McLuhan Context triple: [Marshall McLuhan, fullName, Herbert Marshall McLuhan]
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A.
Marshall McLuhan
chosen
Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher and media theorist best known for coining the phrase "the medium is the message" and for his pioneering work on how communication technologies shape human perception and society.
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B.
Wilbur Schramm
Wilbur Schramm was an influential American scholar often regarded as a founding figure of communication studies, who also played a key role in shaping creative writing education in the United States.
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C.
Douglas Kahn
Douglas Kahn is a cultural and media historian known for his influential work on sound, radio, and the arts, particularly in relation to experimental and avant-garde practices.
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D.
Gordon Pask
Gordon Pask was a British cybernetician and psychologist known for pioneering work in conversation theory, second-order cybernetics, and the study of learning and adaptive systems.
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E.
Ralph Hartley
Ralph Hartley was an American engineer and physicist known for pioneering work in information theory and for the Hartley oscillator circuit.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8b907d05c819083cc3bd6021089e6 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e4d9fdb00c8190b4769699e94c8941 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 1:34 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:27 a.m.