Triple

T7657712
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Brin E173427 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Transparent Society
The Transparent Society is a non-fiction book by David Brin that explores the social, political, and ethical implications of living in an age of pervasive surveillance and argues for a future of mutual transparency over one-sided secrecy.
E679731 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 Transparent Society | Statement: [David Brin, notableWork, The Transparent Society]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Transparent Society
Context triple: [David Brin, notableWork, The Transparent Society]
  • A. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
    The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires is a nonfiction book that examines the recurring cycle of openness and monopolistic control in communications and information industries throughout modern history.
  • B. The Public and the Private Realm
    "The Public and the Private Realm" is a major section of Hannah Arendt’s philosophical work *The Human Condition* that analyzes the historical and conceptual distinction between public political life and private domestic existence.
  • C. The Tyranny of Controls
    "The Tyranny of Controls" is a chapter from Milton and Rose Friedman's book *Free to Choose* that critiques government regulations and economic controls as harmful constraints on individual freedom and market efficiency.
  • D. 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.
  • E. The Age of Spiritual Machines
    The Age of Spiritual Machines is a futurist book by Ray Kurzweil that predicts the evolution of artificial intelligence and its profound impact on human society and consciousness.
  • 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 Transparent Society
Triple: [David Brin, notableWork, The Transparent Society]
Generated description
The Transparent Society is a non-fiction book by David Brin that explores the social, political, and ethical implications of living in an age of pervasive surveillance and argues for a future of mutual transparency over one-sided secrecy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Transparent Society
Target entity description: The Transparent Society is a non-fiction book by David Brin that explores the social, political, and ethical implications of living in an age of pervasive surveillance and argues for a future of mutual transparency over one-sided secrecy.
  • A. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
    The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires is a nonfiction book that examines the recurring cycle of openness and monopolistic control in communications and information industries throughout modern history.
  • B. The Public and the Private Realm
    "The Public and the Private Realm" is a major section of Hannah Arendt’s philosophical work *The Human Condition* that analyzes the historical and conceptual distinction between public political life and private domestic existence.
  • C. The Tyranny of Controls
    "The Tyranny of Controls" is a chapter from Milton and Rose Friedman's book *Free to Choose* that critiques government regulations and economic controls as harmful constraints on individual freedom and market efficiency.
  • D. 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.
  • E. The Age of Spiritual Machines
    The Age of Spiritual Machines is a futurist book by Ray Kurzweil that predicts the evolution of artificial intelligence and its profound impact on human society and consciousness.
  • 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_69c69955517c819085bc715b96d304d2 completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c7019161548190855a5b1e9f5d7e99 completed March 27, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c89b0d345081909a1d4475fa3876f5 completed March 29, 2026, 3:22 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c89d77b7cc81908120da0121c94537 completed March 29, 2026, 3:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c89ddd81a88190924d41529e94b06b completed March 29, 2026, 3:34 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:59 p.m.