Triple

T5759581
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edward L. Thorndike E127054 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals
"Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals" is Edward L. Thorndike’s landmark early work in comparative psychology that introduced experimental methods to study learning and problem-solving in animals.
E543624 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: Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals | Statement: [Edward L. Thorndike, notableWork, Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals
Context triple: [Edward L. Thorndike, notableWork, Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals]
  • A. Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology
    Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology is a foundational psychological work by Wilhelm Wundt that explores the comparative study of mental processes in humans and animals.
  • B. Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It
    "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It" is John B. Watson’s 1913 manifesto that launched behaviorism by redefining psychology as the objective study of observable behavior rather than consciousness.
  • C. The Structure of Behavior
    The Structure of Behavior is a foundational philosophical work by Maurice Merleau-Ponty that critiques both empiricism and intellectualism while developing a phenomenological account of perception and embodied behavior.
  • D. The Principles of Psychology
    The Principles of Psychology is an influential 19th-century work by Herbert Spencer that applies evolutionary theory to explain mental processes and the development of the mind.
  • E. The Principles of Psychology
    The Principles of Psychology is an influential 1890 book by William James that helped establish psychology as a scientific discipline and introduced key ideas such as the stream of consciousness and functionalism.
  • 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: Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals
Triple: [Edward L. Thorndike, notableWork, Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals]
Generated description
"Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals" is Edward L. Thorndike’s landmark early work in comparative psychology that introduced experimental methods to study learning and problem-solving in animals.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals
Target entity description: "Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals" is Edward L. Thorndike’s landmark early work in comparative psychology that introduced experimental methods to study learning and problem-solving in animals.
  • A. Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology
    Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology is a foundational psychological work by Wilhelm Wundt that explores the comparative study of mental processes in humans and animals.
  • B. Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It
    "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It" is John B. Watson’s 1913 manifesto that launched behaviorism by redefining psychology as the objective study of observable behavior rather than consciousness.
  • C. The Structure of Behavior
    The Structure of Behavior is a foundational philosophical work by Maurice Merleau-Ponty that critiques both empiricism and intellectualism while developing a phenomenological account of perception and embodied behavior.
  • D. The Principles of Psychology
    The Principles of Psychology is an influential 19th-century work by Herbert Spencer that applies evolutionary theory to explain mental processes and the development of the mind.
  • E. The Principles of Psychology
    The Principles of Psychology is an influential 1890 book by William James that helped establish psychology as a scientific discipline and introduced key ideas such as the stream of consciousness and functionalism.
  • 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_69c00833a3fc81908f4bc29ed011b7a6 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0293771ec8190a0082685327d649b completed March 22, 2026, 5:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c07e507d348190a983a4c127b78de0 completed March 22, 2026, 11:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0895a350c819098bfe51833e7f0da completed March 23, 2026, 12:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c089e769248190aec908d826a36a85 completed March 23, 2026, 12:31 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:49 p.m.