Triple

T7164952
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brian Kernighan E167041 entity
Predicate authorOf P4244 FINISHED
Object Understanding the Digital World
"Understanding the Digital World" is an accessible introductory book that explains how computers, the internet, and digital technologies work and affect everyday life.
E645523 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: Understanding the Digital World | Statement: [Brian Kernighan, authorOf, Understanding the Digital World]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Understanding the Digital World
Context triple: [Brian Kernighan, authorOf, Understanding the Digital World]
  • A. Being Digital
    Being Digital is a 1995 book by MIT Media Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte that explores the cultural and technological implications of the shift from analog to digital information.
  • B. Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion
    "Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion" is a non-fiction book that explores how the digital revolution transforms privacy, security, freedom, and everyday life in the information age.
  • C. Laws for the Internet Age
    Laws for the Internet Age is the subtitle of Cory Doctorow’s nonfiction book "Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free," which explores how copyright, technology, and digital culture intersect in the modern online world.
  • D. Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives
    "Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives" is a nonfiction book by Randi Zuckerberg that explores the impact of digital technology and social media on modern life and offers guidance on achieving a healthier tech-life balance.
  • E. Power in the Global Information Age
    "Power in the Global Information Age" is a book by political scientist Joseph S. Nye Jr. that analyzes how information technologies are transforming the nature and distribution of power in international relations.
  • 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: Understanding the Digital World
Triple: [Brian Kernighan, authorOf, Understanding the Digital World]
Generated description
"Understanding the Digital World" is an accessible introductory book that explains how computers, the internet, and digital technologies work and affect everyday life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Understanding the Digital World
Target entity description: "Understanding the Digital World" is an accessible introductory book that explains how computers, the internet, and digital technologies work and affect everyday life.
  • A. Being Digital
    Being Digital is a 1995 book by MIT Media Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte that explores the cultural and technological implications of the shift from analog to digital information.
  • B. Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion
    "Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion" is a non-fiction book that explores how the digital revolution transforms privacy, security, freedom, and everyday life in the information age.
  • C. Laws for the Internet Age
    Laws for the Internet Age is the subtitle of Cory Doctorow’s nonfiction book "Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free," which explores how copyright, technology, and digital culture intersect in the modern online world.
  • D. Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives
    "Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives" is a nonfiction book by Randi Zuckerberg that explores the impact of digital technology and social media on modern life and offers guidance on achieving a healthier tech-life balance.
  • E. Power in the Global Information Age
    "Power in the Global Information Age" is a book by political scientist Joseph S. Nye Jr. that analyzes how information technologies are transforming the nature and distribution of power in international relations.
  • 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_69c68888c10c819095e0383020225758 completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e832d2548190aacff0de80dbc268 completed March 27, 2026, 8:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7adcc145c8190ba65831ed891a225 completed March 28, 2026, 10:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7ae9111048190b9d68932b15aeab9 completed March 28, 2026, 10:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7af44076481908d770dd92ed55277 completed March 28, 2026, 10:36 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:47 p.m.