Triple
T23378046
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society |
E593660
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entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
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FINISHED |
| Object | James Boyle |
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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: James Boyle | Statement: [Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society, author, James Boyle]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Boyle Context triple: [Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society, author, James Boyle]
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A.
James Boyle
chosen
James Boyle is a legal scholar best known for his work on intellectual property, the public domain, and the cultural and political implications of copyright law.
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B.
Ian Ayres
Ian Ayres is an American lawyer, economist, and Yale Law School professor known for his work on law and economics, behavioral economics, and discrimination.
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C.
Michael Donoghue
Michael Donoghue is a notable individual distinguished by achievements or recognition significant enough to be specifically referenced among people sharing the Donoghue surname.
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D.
Geoffrey Brennan
Geoffrey Brennan was an Australian philosopher and economist known for his influential work in public choice theory and his long-term collaboration with Nobel laureate James M. Buchanan.
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E.
Andrew Sowle
Andrew Sowle was a 17th-century London Quaker printer and publisher known for producing early colonial American maps and religious works.
- 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_69e25d268a50819095f2fd479da8ef3f |
completed | April 17, 2026, 4:17 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f1a3b526ec8190b0304c72a9010abb |
completed | April 29, 2026, 6:22 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 5:33 p.m.