Triple

T20484190
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edward C. Tolman E502541 entity
Predicate publicationYearOf P25 FINISHED
Object 1932: Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men — 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: 1932: Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men | Statement: [Edward C. Tolman, publicationYearOf, 1932: Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: 1932: Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men
Context triple: [Edward C. Tolman, publicationYearOf, 1932: Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men]
  • A. Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men chosen
    Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men is Edward C. Tolman’s landmark 1932 book that introduced his theory of purposive behaviorism, emphasizing goal-directed behavior and cognitive processes in animals and humans.
  • B. Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals
    "Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals" is Edward L. Thorndike’s landmark early work in comparative psychology that introduced experimental methods to study learning and problem-solving in animals.
  • C. The Study of Instinct
    The Study of Instinct is a landmark 1951 book by ethologist Niko Tinbergen that systematically analyzes animal instinctive behavior and helped establish the foundations of modern ethology.
  • D. Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology
    Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology is a foundational psychological work by Wilhelm Wundt that explores the comparative study of mental processes in humans and animals.
  • E. The Structure of Behavior
    The Structure of Behavior is a foundational philosophical work by Maurice Merleau-Ponty that critiques both empiricism and intellectualism while developing a phenomenological account of perception and embodied behavior.
  • 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_69e0b4af32848190aea80682b44d5d6e completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e69b59ae2c8190bfa26a3f1e59b8d1 completed April 20, 2026, 9:32 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:34 a.m.