Triple

T18229661
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tracy Kidder E436511 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Soul of a New Machine — 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: The Soul of a New Machine | Statement: [Tracy Kidder, notableWork, The Soul of a New Machine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Soul of a New Machine
Context triple: [Tracy Kidder, notableWork, The Soul of a New Machine]
  • A. The Soul of a New Machine chosen
    The Soul of a New Machine is a Pulitzer Prize–winning nonfiction book by Tracy Kidder that chronicles the intense, behind-the-scenes effort of a small engineering team racing to design a new computer in the late 1970s.
  • B. The God of the Machine
    The God of the Machine is a 1943 book by Isabel Paterson that presents a foundational defense of individualism, capitalism, and limited government, and is considered a classic of early American libertarian thought.
  • C. Computer Lib / Dream Machines
    Computer Lib / Dream Machines is a pioneering 1974 book by Ted Nelson that passionately advocates for personal computing, hypertext, and user empowerment in the digital age.
  • D. Business @ the Speed of Thought
    Business @ the Speed of Thought is a business and technology book by Bill Gates that explores how digital systems and information networks can transform organizations and decision-making.
  • E. Engines of Logic
    Engines of Logic is a book by mathematician and computer scientist Martin Davis that explores the historical development of mathematical logic and its foundational role in the creation of modern computers.
  • 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_69d8b9103a8081908bbb0836fef10efd completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4f4b1b2108190a5585bbfaf2d295b completed April 19, 2026, 3:28 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:33 a.m.