Triple
T18086134
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Marshall McLuhan |
E432837
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | The Medium is the Massage |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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 Medium is the Massage | Statement: [Marshall McLuhan, notableWork, The Medium is the Massage]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Medium is the Massage Context triple: [Marshall McLuhan, notableWork, The Medium is the Massage]
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A.
The Medium
The Medium is a short, two-act English-language opera by Gian Carlo Menotti that blends psychological drama and the supernatural, first premiered in 1946.
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B.
The Man in the Middle
The Man in the Middle is a 1963 courtroom drama film set during World War II, focusing on a U.S. Army officer defending a mentally unstable Black soldier accused of murdering a white British sergeant.
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C.
The Mystic Masseur
The Mystic Masseur is a comic novel by V. S. Naipaul that follows the rise of a Trinidadian masseur-turned-politician, exploring themes of ambition, colonial society, and cultural change.
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D.
The Gentle Touch
The Gentle Touch is a British television police drama series from the early 1980s, notable for being one of the first to feature a female detective inspector as its central character.
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E.
Towelhead
Towelhead is a 2007 coming-of-age drama novel by Alicia Erian, later adapted into a film, that explores themes of identity, sexuality, and cultural conflict through the experiences of a young Arab American girl in suburban Texas.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Medium is the Massage Target entity description: The Medium is the Massage is a 1967 experimental media theory book by Marshall McLuhan and graphic designer Quentin Fiore that explores how communication technologies shape human perception and society through a highly visual, nonlinear format.
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A.
The Medium
The Medium is a short, two-act English-language opera by Gian Carlo Menotti that blends psychological drama and the supernatural, first premiered in 1946.
-
B.
The Man in the Middle
The Man in the Middle is a 1963 courtroom drama film set during World War II, focusing on a U.S. Army officer defending a mentally unstable Black soldier accused of murdering a white British sergeant.
-
C.
The Mystic Masseur
The Mystic Masseur is a comic novel by V. S. Naipaul that follows the rise of a Trinidadian masseur-turned-politician, exploring themes of ambition, colonial society, and cultural change.
-
D.
The Gentle Touch
The Gentle Touch is a British television police drama series from the early 1980s, notable for being one of the first to feature a female detective inspector as its central character.
-
E.
Towelhead
Towelhead is a 2007 coming-of-age drama novel by Alicia Erian, later adapted into a film, that explores themes of identity, sexuality, and cultural conflict through the experiences of a young Arab American girl in suburban Texas.
- F. None of above. chosen
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_69e4dd150ab88190864be2a722d214b8 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 1:48 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:27 a.m.