Triple

T810102
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ashley Montagu E17523 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin
Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin is a seminal work of anthropology and psychology that explores the crucial role of human skin and physical contact in emotional development, communication, and social bonding.
E97773 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: Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin | Statement: [Ashley Montagu, notableWork, Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin
Context triple: [Ashley Montagu, notableWork, Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin]
  • A. Education of the Senses
    Education of the Senses is a historical study by Peter Gay that explores the evolution of bourgeois attitudes toward sexuality and intimacy in 19th-century Europe.
  • B. The Analysis of Sensations
    The Analysis of Sensations is Ernst Mach’s influential philosophical and scientific treatise that examines perception and experience to argue for an empiricist, anti-metaphysical view of the physical world.
  • C. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
    The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals is Charles Darwin’s influential 1872 work that explores how human and animal emotional expressions evolved and are biologically rooted.
  • D. Part IV: Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Affects
    "Part IV: Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Affects" is a section of Spinoza’s *Ethics* that analyzes how human emotions can enslave us and explores the path toward greater rational freedom.
  • E. Seeing Myself: The New Science of Out-of-Body Experiences
    Seeing Myself: The New Science of Out-of-Body Experiences is a book by psychologist and consciousness researcher Susan Blackmore that explores the science, psychology, and personal phenomenology of out-of-body experiences.
  • 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: Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin
Triple: [Ashley Montagu, notableWork, Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin]
Generated description
Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin is a seminal work of anthropology and psychology that explores the crucial role of human skin and physical contact in emotional development, communication, and social bonding.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin
Target entity description: Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin is a seminal work of anthropology and psychology that explores the crucial role of human skin and physical contact in emotional development, communication, and social bonding.
  • A. Education of the Senses
    Education of the Senses is a historical study by Peter Gay that explores the evolution of bourgeois attitudes toward sexuality and intimacy in 19th-century Europe.
  • B. The Analysis of Sensations
    The Analysis of Sensations is Ernst Mach’s influential philosophical and scientific treatise that examines perception and experience to argue for an empiricist, anti-metaphysical view of the physical world.
  • C. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
    The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals is Charles Darwin’s influential 1872 work that explores how human and animal emotional expressions evolved and are biologically rooted.
  • D. Part IV: Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Affects
    "Part IV: Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Affects" is a section of Spinoza’s *Ethics* that analyzes how human emotions can enslave us and explores the path toward greater rational freedom.
  • E. Seeing Myself: The New Science of Out-of-Body Experiences
    Seeing Myself: The New Science of Out-of-Body Experiences is a book by psychologist and consciousness researcher Susan Blackmore that explores the science, psychology, and personal phenomenology of out-of-body experiences.
  • 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_69a4937ae8a08190b5084a03d532b30e completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ab26d36c8190800e98890b7ae08e completed March 1, 2026, 9:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a76d8869888190a95857546dfae5b3 completed March 3, 2026, 11:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a78e436c048190b31b53fff1c48f1d completed March 4, 2026, 1:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a78eb80f6081908257889efaff6d33 completed March 4, 2026, 1:45 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.