Triple
T6796553
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | God Is Not Great |
E156067
|
entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Christopher Hitchens |
E28943
|
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: Christopher Hitchens | Statement: [God Is Not Great, author, Christopher Hitchens]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Christopher Hitchens Context triple: [God Is Not Great, author, Christopher Hitchens]
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A.
Christopher Hitchens
chosen
Christopher Hitchens was a British-American author, journalist, and polemicist known for his sharp wit, contrarian views, and influential writings on religion, politics, and culture.
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B.
Peter Hitchens
Peter Hitchens is a British journalist, author, and conservative commentator known for his columns in The Mail on Sunday and his critiques of modern liberalism and social policy.
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C.
Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan is a British-American writer and political commentator known for his influential essays on politics, culture, and religion and for pioneering political blogging.
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D.
Alexander Cockburn
Alexander Cockburn was a British-born Irish-American political journalist and columnist known for his sharp left-wing commentary and co-editing the newsletter CounterPunch.
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E.
Andrew Cockburn
Andrew Cockburn is a British-American journalist and author known for his investigative reporting and books on national security, military affairs, and U.S. foreign policy.
- 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_69c6881844448190a65822d9b39d7f88 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6d2c872f0819092f21e8fdbecc667 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 6:56 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c72f94b7388190806939f8e8982d2e |
completed | March 28, 2026, 1:32 a.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:15 p.m.