Triple
T3805876
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Richard Dawkins |
E93005
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | The Selfish Gene |
E212234
|
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: The Selfish Gene | Statement: [Richard Dawkins, notableWork, The Selfish Gene]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Selfish Gene Context triple: [Richard Dawkins, notableWork, The Selfish Gene]
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A.
The Selfish Gene
chosen
The Selfish Gene is a landmark 1976 book by Richard Dawkins that popularized a gene-centered view of evolution and introduced concepts like memes to a broad audience.
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B.
Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Darwin's Dangerous Idea is a 1995 philosophical book by Daniel Dennett that explores the far-reaching implications of Darwinian evolution for biology, mind, culture, and religion.
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C.
The Blind Watchmaker
The Blind Watchmaker is a popular science book by Richard Dawkins that explains and defends evolution by natural selection as an unguided, non-teleological process capable of producing complex life.
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D.
The Extended Phenotype
The Extended Phenotype is a 1982 book by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins that expands the gene-centered view of evolution by arguing that a gene’s effects can extend beyond an organism’s body to influence its environment and other organisms.
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E.
The Third Chimpanzee
The Third Chimpanzee is a popular science book by Jared Diamond that explores human evolution and behavior by comparing Homo sapiens to our closest primate relatives.
- 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_69aed96a60088190ab1df8390fffc935 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:30 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aee7bd95e881908649ce512f7470b0 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 3:31 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b503f107148190bf7ce74eb7dee9b2 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 6:45 a.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:16 p.m.