Triple

T6579764
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Talal Asad E157260 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason
"Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason" is a scholarly work by anthropologist Talal Asad that critically examines how secular modernity, state power, and notions of the self are shaped through practices of translation and calculative reasoning.
E599469 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: Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason | Statement: [Talal Asad, notableWork, Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason
Context triple: [Talal Asad, notableWork, Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason]
  • A. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
    A Critique of Postcolonial Reason is a seminal theoretical work by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak that interrogates how Western philosophy, literature, and colonial discourse construct and silence the subaltern.
  • B. Reason, Truth and History
    Reason, Truth and History is a 1981 philosophical work by Hilary Putnam that critically examines realism, reference, and the nature of truth in analytic philosophy.
  • C. The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
    The Dictatorship of Reason in the West is the subtitle of John Ralston Saul’s book "Voltaire’s Bastards," which critiques how Western societies have elevated rationalism and technocratic thinking above ethics, common sense, and democratic values.
  • D. Crafting the Neoliberal State
    Crafting the Neoliberal State is a scholarly work by sociologist Loïc Wacquant that analyzes how neoliberalism reshapes state power, punishment, and social policy.
  • E. The State in the Third Millennium
    The State in the Third Millennium is a political treatise by Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein that explores the future role, structure, and legitimacy of the modern state in a globalized world.
  • 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: Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason
Triple: [Talal Asad, notableWork, Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason]
Generated description
"Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason" is a scholarly work by anthropologist Talal Asad that critically examines how secular modernity, state power, and notions of the self are shaped through practices of translation and calculative reasoning.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason
Target entity description: "Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason" is a scholarly work by anthropologist Talal Asad that critically examines how secular modernity, state power, and notions of the self are shaped through practices of translation and calculative reasoning.
  • A. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
    A Critique of Postcolonial Reason is a seminal theoretical work by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak that interrogates how Western philosophy, literature, and colonial discourse construct and silence the subaltern.
  • B. Reason, Truth and History
    Reason, Truth and History is a 1981 philosophical work by Hilary Putnam that critically examines realism, reference, and the nature of truth in analytic philosophy.
  • C. The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
    The Dictatorship of Reason in the West is the subtitle of John Ralston Saul’s book "Voltaire’s Bastards," which critiques how Western societies have elevated rationalism and technocratic thinking above ethics, common sense, and democratic values.
  • D. Crafting the Neoliberal State
    Crafting the Neoliberal State is a scholarly work by sociologist Loïc Wacquant that analyzes how neoliberalism reshapes state power, punishment, and social policy.
  • E. The State in the Third Millennium
    The State in the Third Millennium is a political treatise by Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein that explores the future role, structure, and legitimacy of the modern state in a globalized world.
  • 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_69c6882b3a108190b3a9eb343ae4162c completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6ae8ef4d08190b4c88aa0c15fe91c completed March 27, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6cba5cc708190a8748160a7878b8f completed March 27, 2026, 6:25 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6cd08a9c88190a481d4d3f8e680bf completed March 27, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6cdc859cc8190bbae2efc39409021 completed March 27, 2026, 6:34 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:54 p.m.