Triple

T4363614
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Terence McKenna E98717 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher and media theorist best known for coining the phrase "the medium is the message" and for his pioneering work on how communication technologies shape human perception and society.
E432837 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 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: Marshall McLuhan | Statement: [Terence McKenna, influencedBy, Marshall McLuhan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marshall McLuhan
Context triple: [Terence McKenna, influencedBy, Marshall McLuhan]
  • A. Wilbur Schramm
    Wilbur Schramm was an influential American scholar often regarded as a founding figure of communication studies, who also played a key role in shaping creative writing education in the United States.
  • B. Paul Baran
    Paul Baran was an American engineer and pioneer of packet-switching technology whose ideas were foundational to the development of the internet.
  • C. Jacques Ellul
    Jacques Ellul was a French philosopher, sociologist, and theologian best known for his critiques of technological society and the state from a Christian perspective.
  • D. Gregory Bateson
    Gregory Bateson was an English anthropologist, social scientist, and cyberneticist known for his work on systems theory, communication, and the ecology of mind.
  • E. Philip Drucker
    Philip Drucker was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering fieldwork on Mesoamerican cultures, particularly the Olmec civilization.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Marshall McLuhan
Triple: [Terence McKenna, influencedBy, Marshall McLuhan]
Generated description
Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher and media theorist best known for coining the phrase "the medium is the message" and for his pioneering work on how communication technologies shape human perception and society.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marshall McLuhan
Target entity description: Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher and media theorist best known for coining the phrase "the medium is the message" and for his pioneering work on how communication technologies shape human perception and society.
  • A. Wilbur Schramm
    Wilbur Schramm was an influential American scholar often regarded as a founding figure of communication studies, who also played a key role in shaping creative writing education in the United States.
  • B. Paul Baran
    Paul Baran was an American engineer and pioneer of packet-switching technology whose ideas were foundational to the development of the internet.
  • C. Jacques Ellul
    Jacques Ellul was a French philosopher, sociologist, and theologian best known for his critiques of technological society and the state from a Christian perspective.
  • D. Gregory Bateson
    Gregory Bateson was an English anthropologist, social scientist, and cyberneticist known for his work on systems theory, communication, and the ecology of mind.
  • E. Philip Drucker
    Philip Drucker was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering fieldwork on Mesoamerican cultures, particularly the Olmec civilization.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 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_69b3454c772081908e20173e379e8ebe completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b351e70a748190af6f1b709a0e75e6 completed March 12, 2026, 11:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5dbc925d881909fac944bc7ce5407 completed March 14, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5dc578b08819095cbf6ba8470d3e0 completed March 14, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5dd1b03508190a47bb6fb93f22ad8 completed March 14, 2026, 10:11 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:16 p.m.