Triple

T8504059
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gerald Gardner E201289 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Meaning of Witchcraft
The Meaning of Witchcraft is a seminal 1959 book by Gerald Gardner that outlines the beliefs, practices, and history of modern Wicca and helped popularize contemporary witchcraft.
E741580 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 Meaning of Witchcraft | Statement: [Gerald Gardner, notableWork, The Meaning of Witchcraft]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Meaning of Witchcraft
Context triple: [Gerald Gardner, notableWork, The Meaning of Witchcraft]
  • A. Witchcraft Today
    Witchcraft Today is a 1954 book by Gerald Gardner that popularized modern Wicca by presenting it as a surviving pre-Christian pagan religion.
  • B. The Passionate Witch
    The Passionate Witch is a 1941 comic fantasy novel by Thorne Smith (completed posthumously by Norman H. Matson) about a mischievous witch whose romantic entanglements with a mortal man inspired the classic film "I Married a Witch."
  • C. Witches Abroad
    Witches Abroad is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett in the Discworld series, following the Lancre witches as they travel abroad to thwart a manipulative fairy godmother and disrupt predestined stories.
  • D. A General Theory of Magic
    A General Theory of Magic is a foundational anthropological work by Marcel Mauss that analyzes the social and cultural functions of magical beliefs and practices.
  • E. De crimine magiae
    De crimine magiae is a late 17th-century legal-philosophical treatise by Christian Thomasius that critically examines and challenges the prosecution of witchcraft and magic under contemporary criminal law.
  • 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 Meaning of Witchcraft
Triple: [Gerald Gardner, notableWork, The Meaning of Witchcraft]
Generated description
The Meaning of Witchcraft is a seminal 1959 book by Gerald Gardner that outlines the beliefs, practices, and history of modern Wicca and helped popularize contemporary witchcraft.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Meaning of Witchcraft
Target entity description: The Meaning of Witchcraft is a seminal 1959 book by Gerald Gardner that outlines the beliefs, practices, and history of modern Wicca and helped popularize contemporary witchcraft.
  • A. Witchcraft Today
    Witchcraft Today is a 1954 book by Gerald Gardner that popularized modern Wicca by presenting it as a surviving pre-Christian pagan religion.
  • B. The Passionate Witch
    The Passionate Witch is a 1941 comic fantasy novel by Thorne Smith (completed posthumously by Norman H. Matson) about a mischievous witch whose romantic entanglements with a mortal man inspired the classic film "I Married a Witch."
  • C. Witches Abroad
    Witches Abroad is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett in the Discworld series, following the Lancre witches as they travel abroad to thwart a manipulative fairy godmother and disrupt predestined stories.
  • D. A General Theory of Magic
    A General Theory of Magic is a foundational anthropological work by Marcel Mauss that analyzes the social and cultural functions of magical beliefs and practices.
  • E. De crimine magiae
    De crimine magiae is a late 17th-century legal-philosophical treatise by Christian Thomasius that critically examines and challenges the prosecution of witchcraft and magic under contemporary criminal law.
  • 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_69ca831fe47c8190b5c57b456d2aefa0 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe59d67d081908155a43b9b463fe3 completed March 31, 2026, 3:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce6d257a748190b33873ee0d252d2e completed April 2, 2026, 1:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce6ec1e74081908fc235ffd13ef301 completed April 2, 2026, 1:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce6fe13a00819095f5bec408435426 completed April 2, 2026, 1:32 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:14 p.m.