Triple
T6259899
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Singularity Is Near |
E140267
|
entity |
| Predicate | precededBy |
P97
|
FINISHED |
| Object | The Age of Spiritual Machines |
E139153
|
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 Age of Spiritual Machines | Statement: [The Singularity Is Near, precededBy, The Age of Spiritual Machines]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Age of Spiritual Machines Context triple: [The Singularity Is Near, precededBy, The Age of Spiritual Machines]
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A.
The Age of Spiritual Machines
chosen
The Age of Spiritual Machines is a futurist book by Ray Kurzweil that predicts the evolution of artificial intelligence and its profound impact on human society and consciousness.
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B.
The Singularity Is Near
The Singularity Is Near is a futurist book by Ray Kurzweil that predicts the imminent rise of superintelligent machines and explores the profound technological, social, and philosophical implications of this transformation.
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C.
The Age of Intelligent Machines
The Age of Intelligent Machines is a 1990 book by futurist Ray Kurzweil that explores the history, current state, and future implications of artificial intelligence and computing.
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D.
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.
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E.
The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth
The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth is a speculative nonfiction book that explores a future society dominated by brain-emulation-based robots and examines how this transformation would reshape economics, work, and human relationships.
- 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_69c008c95c5c819084bd3dd56133d84d |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c06383616c819090c7994740317564 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 9:47 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c5192b99d4819083ab6e6f2092547b |
completed | March 26, 2026, 11:31 a.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:24 p.m.