Triple

T8195437
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Seely Brown E191417 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Social Life of Information
The Social Life of Information is an influential book by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid that explores how social and organizational contexts shape the way information is created, shared, and used in the digital age.
 E718415 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 Life of Information | Statement: [John Seely Brown, notableWork, The Social Life of Information]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Social Life of Information
Context triple: [John Seely Brown, notableWork, The Social Life of Information]
  • A. Essays of an Information Scientist
    Essays of an Information Scientist is a multi-volume collection of influential articles by Eugene Garfield that helped shape the fields of bibliometrics, citation analysis, and the evaluation of scientific literature.
  • B. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
    The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood is a nonfiction book by James Gleick that explores the development of information theory and its profound impact on science, technology, and culture.
  • C. Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free
    "Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free" is a nonfiction book by Cory Doctorow that critiques modern copyright and digital rights regimes while advocating for open culture and user freedoms in the digital age.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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 Life of Information
Triple: [John Seely Brown, notableWork, The Social Life of Information]
Generated description
The Social Life of Information is an influential book by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid that explores how social and organizational contexts shape the way information is created, shared, and used in the digital age.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Social Life of Information
Target entity description: The Social Life of Information is an influential book by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid that explores how social and organizational contexts shape the way information is created, shared, and used in the digital age.
  • A. Essays of an Information Scientist
    Essays of an Information Scientist is a multi-volume collection of influential articles by Eugene Garfield that helped shape the fields of bibliometrics, citation analysis, and the evaluation of scientific literature.
  • B. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
    The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood is a nonfiction book by James Gleick that explores the development of information theory and its profound impact on science, technology, and culture.
  • C. Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free
    "Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free" is a nonfiction book by Cory Doctorow that critiques modern copyright and digital rights regimes while advocating for open culture and user freedoms in the digital age.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69ca82c6e9548190a4c5ca14516e4417 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb5c20fbd08190b9966e3c967e9c71 completed March 31, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ccedaab8848190877fbe2de9b83957 completed April 1, 2026, 10:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ccf1b706f08190993f4a75eac5f49c completed April 1, 2026, 10:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cd059457788190a900402ee4cd50d5 completed April 1, 2026, 11:46 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:42 p.m.