Triple

T3670863
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Joseph Needham E77874 entity
Predicate authorOf P4244 FINISHED
Object Science and Civilisation in China E376860 NE FINISHED

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: Science and Civilisation in China | Statement: [Joseph Needham, authorOf, Science and Civilisation in China]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Science and Civilisation in China
Context triple: [Joseph Needham, authorOf, Science and Civilisation in China]
  • A. Science and Civilisation in China chosen
    Science and Civilisation in China is a monumental multi-volume work that systematically documents and analyzes the history of Chinese science, technology, and civilization and their global significance.
  • B. The Origins of Modern Science, 1300–1800
    The Origins of Modern Science, 1300–1800 is a landmark historical study that analyzes the development of scientific thought and practice in Europe from the late Middle Ages through the Scientific Revolution.
  • C. Yongle Encyclopedia
    The Yongle Encyclopedia is a vast 15th-century Chinese imperial compendium that sought to collect and preserve the entirety of known knowledge, literature, and scholarship of its time.
  • D. History of the Inductive Sciences
    History of the Inductive Sciences is William Whewell’s comprehensive 19th-century survey of the development of scientific knowledge and methods from antiquity to his own time.
  • E. Science and the Modern World
    Science and the Modern World is a seminal 1925 work of process philosophy in which Alfred North Whitehead analyzes the historical development and philosophical implications of modern science for our understanding of reality.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69ad85e083008190b2e1b7085fe500bd completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc42c96648190abbd5d23b25d6a6b completed March 8, 2026, 6:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4c3a047948190a50d1648fe209371 completed March 14, 2026, 2:10 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:25 p.m.