Triple

T7168736
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nikolas Rose E167137 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century
The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century is a sociological and philosophical study by Nikolas Rose that examines how contemporary biomedicine reshapes concepts of life, identity, and political power.
E647142 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: The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century | Statement: [Nikolas Rose, notableWork, The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century
Context triple: [Nikolas Rose, notableWork, The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century]
  • A. The Birth of Biopolitics
    The Birth of Biopolitics is a series of 1978–1979 lectures by Michel Foucault that analyze the emergence of neoliberal governmentality and its implications for modern forms of power over life and populations.
  • B. The Ends of Human Life
    "The Ends of Human Life" is a bioethics book by Ezekiel Emanuel that examines philosophical, medical, and policy questions surrounding end-of-life decision-making and the definition of death.
  • C. Rethinking Life and Death
    Rethinking Life and Death is a philosophical book by ethicist Peter Singer that challenges traditional moral views on issues such as euthanasia, abortion, and the value of human life in light of modern medical technology.
  • D. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex
    Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex is a 1993 philosophical and gender theory book by Judith Butler that further develops her concept of gender performativity by examining how material bodies are produced and constrained through discourse and power.
  • E. The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection
    The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection is a philosophical work by Judith Butler that explores how power and social norms shape subject formation through processes of subjection and psychic life.
  • 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: The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century
Triple: [Nikolas Rose, notableWork, The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century]
Generated description
The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century is a sociological and philosophical study by Nikolas Rose that examines how contemporary biomedicine reshapes concepts of life, identity, and political power.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century
Target entity description: The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century is a sociological and philosophical study by Nikolas Rose that examines how contemporary biomedicine reshapes concepts of life, identity, and political power.
  • A. The Birth of Biopolitics
    The Birth of Biopolitics is a series of 1978–1979 lectures by Michel Foucault that analyze the emergence of neoliberal governmentality and its implications for modern forms of power over life and populations.
  • B. The Ends of Human Life
    "The Ends of Human Life" is a bioethics book by Ezekiel Emanuel that examines philosophical, medical, and policy questions surrounding end-of-life decision-making and the definition of death.
  • C. Rethinking Life and Death
    Rethinking Life and Death is a philosophical book by ethicist Peter Singer that challenges traditional moral views on issues such as euthanasia, abortion, and the value of human life in light of modern medical technology.
  • D. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex
    Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex is a 1993 philosophical and gender theory book by Judith Butler that further develops her concept of gender performativity by examining how material bodies are produced and constrained through discourse and power.
  • E. The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection
    The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection is a philosophical work by Judith Butler that explores how power and social norms shape subject formation through processes of subjection and psychic life.
  • 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_69c6e85c606081909f76d76fc5b90bc8 completed March 27, 2026, 8:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7b9094a8c81909e9d5b91ec714831 completed March 28, 2026, 11:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7b9e55f84819099af471a65bb68aa completed March 28, 2026, 11:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7ba9317548190946e21c2731d58a7 completed March 28, 2026, 11:25 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:48 p.m.