Triple

T862190
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bill McKibben E18621 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The End of Nature
The End of Nature is an influential 1989 environmental book by Bill McKibben that is often considered the first major work on global warming written for a general audience.
E101840 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 End of Nature | Statement: [Bill McKibben, notableWork, The End of Nature]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The End of Nature
Context triple: [Bill McKibben, notableWork, The End of Nature]
  • A. The Sixth Extinction
    The Sixth Extinction is a nonfiction book by Elizabeth Kolbert that examines humanity’s role in causing an ongoing mass extinction of species and its implications for the planet’s future.
  • B. The Endangered Earth
    The Endangered Earth is the collective representation of the planet’s environmental crisis, recognized by Time as a symbolic “Person of the Year” to highlight global ecological threats and the urgency of conservation.
  • C. Field Notes from a Catastrophe
    Field Notes from a Catastrophe is a nonfiction book by Elizabeth Kolbert that examines the science, evidence, and early impacts of human-driven climate change around the world.
  • D. The Climate of Eden
    The Climate of Eden is a novel by American playwright and director Moss Hart that explores complex human relationships and social tensions in a richly drawn setting.
  • E. Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
    Chaos and Creation in the Backyard is a critically acclaimed 2005 studio album by Paul McCartney that showcases a more introspective, stripped-down songwriting and production style.
  • 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 End of Nature
Triple: [Bill McKibben, notableWork, The End of Nature]
Generated description
The End of Nature is an influential 1989 environmental book by Bill McKibben that is often considered the first major work on global warming written for a general audience.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The End of Nature
Target entity description: The End of Nature is an influential 1989 environmental book by Bill McKibben that is often considered the first major work on global warming written for a general audience.
  • A. The Sixth Extinction
    The Sixth Extinction is a nonfiction book by Elizabeth Kolbert that examines humanity’s role in causing an ongoing mass extinction of species and its implications for the planet’s future.
  • B. The Endangered Earth
    The Endangered Earth is the collective representation of the planet’s environmental crisis, recognized by Time as a symbolic “Person of the Year” to highlight global ecological threats and the urgency of conservation.
  • C. Field Notes from a Catastrophe
    Field Notes from a Catastrophe is a nonfiction book by Elizabeth Kolbert that examines the science, evidence, and early impacts of human-driven climate change around the world.
  • D. The Climate of Eden
    The Climate of Eden is a novel by American playwright and director Moss Hart that explores complex human relationships and social tensions in a richly drawn setting.
  • E. Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
    Chaos and Creation in the Backyard is a critically acclaimed 2005 studio album by Paul McCartney that showcases a more introspective, stripped-down songwriting and production style.
  • 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_69a4938ce8688190a24bdfef82ba7d21 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ac6631408190a19b83126fa86100 completed March 1, 2026, 9:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7a3c5c15c8190a91eb3746007ebf5 completed March 4, 2026, 3:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7a613db0881908c14569257c53bb0 completed March 4, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7a66cc1108190a072cc7d9be2756c completed March 4, 2026, 3:26 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.