Triple

T7353202
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ian Hacking E169555 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Social Construction of What?
The Social Construction of What? is a 1999 philosophical book by Ian Hacking that critically examines and clarifies the concept of social construction across science, knowledge, and reality.
E659166 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 Social Construction of What? | Statement: [Ian Hacking, notableWork, The Social Construction of What?]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Social Construction of What?
Context triple: [Ian Hacking, notableWork, The Social Construction of What?]
  • A. Rethinking Social Inquiry
    Rethinking Social Inquiry is a methodological volume in political science that critiques and extends the quantitative, positivist approach of Designing Social Inquiry by advocating for pluralistic, case-based, and mixed-method research strategies.
  • B. Reality as Social Process
    Reality as Social Process is a major philosophical work by Charles Hartshorne that develops a process-oriented, relational view of reality within the tradition of process theology and metaphysics.
  • C. Modern Social Imaginaries
    Modern Social Imaginaries is a philosophical work by Charles Taylor that explores how shared social understandings and collective imaginaries shape modern Western institutions, practices, and identities.
  • D. Strength and Weakness of the Social Sciences
    "Strength and Weakness of the Social Sciences" is a critical work by biologist and philosopher Gunther Stent that examines the methodological limits, explanatory power, and epistemological status of the social sciences in comparison to the natural sciences.
  • E. The Social Framework
    The Social Framework is an influential economics book by John R. Hicks that presents a systematic introduction to the structure and functioning of a modern economic system.
  • 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 Social Construction of What?
Triple: [Ian Hacking, notableWork, The Social Construction of What?]
Generated description
The Social Construction of What? is a 1999 philosophical book by Ian Hacking that critically examines and clarifies the concept of social construction across science, knowledge, and reality.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Social Construction of What?
Target entity description: The Social Construction of What? is a 1999 philosophical book by Ian Hacking that critically examines and clarifies the concept of social construction across science, knowledge, and reality.
  • A. Rethinking Social Inquiry
    Rethinking Social Inquiry is a methodological volume in political science that critiques and extends the quantitative, positivist approach of Designing Social Inquiry by advocating for pluralistic, case-based, and mixed-method research strategies.
  • B. Reality as Social Process
    Reality as Social Process is a major philosophical work by Charles Hartshorne that develops a process-oriented, relational view of reality within the tradition of process theology and metaphysics.
  • C. Modern Social Imaginaries
    Modern Social Imaginaries is a philosophical work by Charles Taylor that explores how shared social understandings and collective imaginaries shape modern Western institutions, practices, and identities.
  • D. Strength and Weakness of the Social Sciences
    "Strength and Weakness of the Social Sciences" is a critical work by biologist and philosopher Gunther Stent that examines the methodological limits, explanatory power, and epistemological status of the social sciences in comparison to the natural sciences.
  • E. The Social Framework
    The Social Framework is an influential economics book by John R. Hicks that presents a systematic introduction to the structure and functioning of a modern economic system.
  • 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_69c68a5878888190968ce4d04db8d69f completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f10d3ef88190b3a0763d80b1e726 completed March 27, 2026, 9:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7fa9dfbac8190993c866cda169633 completed March 28, 2026, 3:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7fb9f863c8190bedb3074664ee146 completed March 28, 2026, 4:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7fc2f66248190bac3fa24d530b938 completed March 28, 2026, 4:05 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:05 p.m.