Triple
T19233909
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Theory of Culture Change |
E480942
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entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
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FINISHED |
| Object | Julian Steward |
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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: Julian Steward | Statement: [Theory of Culture Change, author, Julian Steward]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Julian Steward Context triple: [Theory of Culture Change, author, Julian Steward]
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A.
Julian Steward
chosen
Julian Steward was an American anthropologist best known for developing the theory of cultural ecology, which examined how cultures adapt to their environments.
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B.
Carl O. Sauer
Carl O. Sauer was an influential American geographer known for shaping cultural geography through his work on human–environment interactions and the concept of the cultural landscape.
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C.
Robert H. Lowie
Robert H. Lowie was a prominent early 20th-century American anthropologist known for his influential studies of Native American cultures and his contributions to cultural anthropology theory.
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D.
Robert Redfield
Robert Redfield is an American virologist and public health official who served as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 2018 to 2021.
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E.
Karl Kroeber
Karl Kroeber was an American literary scholar and critic known for his work in Romantic literature, Native American storytelling, and ecological literary studies.
- 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_69d8e8ccb8f48190ad420098e74fb1db |
completed | April 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e5faeb53988190b83afee9974058c6 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 10:07 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:26 p.m.