Triple

T4810188
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Peter C. Doherty E107049 entity
Predicate hasWritten P2831 FINISHED
Object Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know
Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know is an accessible, expert-driven overview of how pandemics emerge, spread, and can be controlled, written for a general audience by Nobel Prize–winning immunologist Peter C. Doherty.
E472329 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: Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know | Statement: [Peter C. Doherty, hasWritten, Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know
Context triple: [Peter C. Doherty, hasWritten, Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know]
  • A. America’s Forgotten Pandemic
    America’s Forgotten Pandemic is a historical study by Alfred W. Crosby that examines the global impact and cultural neglect of the 1918 influenza pandemic.
  • B. Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control
    Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control is a seminal book that applies mathematical modeling to understand and predict the spread and control of infectious diseases in human populations.
  • C. House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox
    House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox is a nonfiction book recounting the global campaign to eliminate smallpox, written from the perspective of one of the key public health leaders who helped achieve its eradication.
  • D. How Contagion Works
    How Contagion Works is a short nonfiction book by Italian writer Paolo Giordano that reflects on the COVID-19 pandemic and explores how contagion shapes societies, behaviors, and interconnected global systems.
  • E. COVID-19 pandemic
    The COVID-19 pandemic is a global outbreak of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that began in late 2019, causing widespread illness, deaths, and major disruptions to societies and economies worldwide.
  • 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: Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know
Triple: [Peter C. Doherty, hasWritten, Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know]
Generated description
Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know is an accessible, expert-driven overview of how pandemics emerge, spread, and can be controlled, written for a general audience by Nobel Prize–winning immunologist Peter C. Doherty.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know
Target entity description: Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know is an accessible, expert-driven overview of how pandemics emerge, spread, and can be controlled, written for a general audience by Nobel Prize–winning immunologist Peter C. Doherty.
  • A. America’s Forgotten Pandemic
    America’s Forgotten Pandemic is a historical study by Alfred W. Crosby that examines the global impact and cultural neglect of the 1918 influenza pandemic.
  • B. Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control
    Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control is a seminal book that applies mathematical modeling to understand and predict the spread and control of infectious diseases in human populations.
  • C. House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox
    House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox is a nonfiction book recounting the global campaign to eliminate smallpox, written from the perspective of one of the key public health leaders who helped achieve its eradication.
  • D. How Contagion Works
    How Contagion Works is a short nonfiction book by Italian writer Paolo Giordano that reflects on the COVID-19 pandemic and explores how contagion shapes societies, behaviors, and interconnected global systems.
  • E. COVID-19 pandemic
    The COVID-19 pandemic is a global outbreak of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that began in late 2019, causing widespread illness, deaths, and major disruptions to societies and economies worldwide.
  • 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_69bd43f779448190b92885cb70abb6c2 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6c7b879081908e0c92a67422906e completed March 20, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be4daa52ec8190a3243313b18a4f3d completed March 21, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be4e4d3d608190837c5808f2f17aa4 completed March 21, 2026, 7:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be4f107e7c8190aec4a7bcf0520ec9 completed March 21, 2026, 7:56 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:23 p.m.