Triple

T5913389
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jill Lepore E131517 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
"If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future" is a historical nonfiction book by Jill Lepore that examines an early data analytics company and its pioneering—and troubling—role in the development of political prediction, targeted advertising, and surveillance capitalism.
E556111 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: If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future | Statement: [Jill Lepore, notableWork, If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
Context triple: [Jill Lepore, notableWork, If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future]
  • A. A Brief History of the Future
    A Brief History of the Future is a book by Mike Moore that explores potential social, political, and technological developments shaping humanity’s long-term future.
  • B. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
    The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires is a nonfiction book that examines the recurring cycle of openness and monopolistic control in communications and information industries throughout modern history.
  • C. The Future of Ideas
    The Future of Ideas is a book by legal scholar Lawrence Lessig that examines how excessive intellectual property regulation threatens innovation, creativity, and the openness of the digital commons.
  • D. The Master Switch
    The Master Switch is a nonfiction book by Tim Wu that explores how communication industries tend to cycle between open innovation and closed, monopolistic control.
  • E. As We May Think
    As We May Think is a seminal 1945 essay by Vannevar Bush that envisioned hypertext-like information systems and profoundly influenced the development of modern computing and the internet.
  • 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: If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
Triple: [Jill Lepore, notableWork, If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future]
Generated description
"If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future" is a historical nonfiction book by Jill Lepore that examines an early data analytics company and its pioneering—and troubling—role in the development of political prediction, targeted advertising, and surveillance capitalism.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
Target entity description: "If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future" is a historical nonfiction book by Jill Lepore that examines an early data analytics company and its pioneering—and troubling—role in the development of political prediction, targeted advertising, and surveillance capitalism.
  • A. A Brief History of the Future
    A Brief History of the Future is a book by Mike Moore that explores potential social, political, and technological developments shaping humanity’s long-term future.
  • B. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
    The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires is a nonfiction book that examines the recurring cycle of openness and monopolistic control in communications and information industries throughout modern history.
  • C. The Future of Ideas
    The Future of Ideas is a book by legal scholar Lawrence Lessig that examines how excessive intellectual property regulation threatens innovation, creativity, and the openness of the digital commons.
  • D. The Master Switch
    The Master Switch is a nonfiction book by Tim Wu that explores how communication industries tend to cycle between open innovation and closed, monopolistic control.
  • E. As We May Think
    As We May Think is a seminal 1945 essay by Vannevar Bush that envisioned hypertext-like information systems and profoundly influenced the development of modern computing and the internet.
  • 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_69c008593a44819081a07ae0efe6c574 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c037b85c7481908bc9da9d38e02d2b completed March 22, 2026, 6:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0c01ddd30819088571c5b56dbae83 completed March 23, 2026, 4:22 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0c214d8988190a599d2b65072524f completed March 23, 2026, 4:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0c30ef6c88190bb4afa41ae8f6a20 completed March 23, 2026, 4:35 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:59 p.m.