Triple

T8828461
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Unix Programming Environment E210074 entity
Predicate subject P450 FINISHED
Object Unix philosophy
Unix philosophy is a set of software design principles emphasizing simplicity, modularity, and the use of small, composable tools that do one thing well and work together through clear interfaces.
E761745 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: Unix philosophy | Statement: [The Unix Programming Environment, subject, Unix philosophy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Unix philosophy
Context triple: [The Unix Programming Environment, subject, Unix philosophy]
  • A. The Art of Unix Programming
    The Art of Unix Programming is a book that explores the philosophy, design principles, and culture of Unix software development, emphasizing simplicity, modularity, and the Unix way.
  • B. The Unix Programming Environment
    The Unix Programming Environment is a classic 1984 book by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike that introduces the philosophy, tools, and practices of software development on Unix systems.
  • C. UNIX wars
    The UNIX wars were a period of intense competition and fragmentation among different commercial and academic UNIX variants in the 1980s and early 1990s, marked by rival standards and vendor alliances.
  • D. UNIX: A History and a Memoir
    UNIX: A History and a Memoir is a reflective book by computer scientist Brian Kernighan that recounts the development of the Unix operating system and his personal experiences working on it at Bell Labs.
  • E. Unix
    Unix is a powerful, multiuser, multitasking operating system originally developed in the 1970s that has profoundly influenced modern computing and inspired many derivative systems like Linux and macOS.
  • 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: Unix philosophy
Triple: [The Unix Programming Environment, subject, Unix philosophy]
Generated description
Unix philosophy is a set of software design principles emphasizing simplicity, modularity, and the use of small, composable tools that do one thing well and work together through clear interfaces.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Unix philosophy
Target entity description: Unix philosophy is a set of software design principles emphasizing simplicity, modularity, and the use of small, composable tools that do one thing well and work together through clear interfaces.
  • A. The Art of Unix Programming
    The Art of Unix Programming is a book that explores the philosophy, design principles, and culture of Unix software development, emphasizing simplicity, modularity, and the Unix way.
  • B. The Unix Programming Environment
    The Unix Programming Environment is a classic 1984 book by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike that introduces the philosophy, tools, and practices of software development on Unix systems.
  • C. UNIX wars
    The UNIX wars were a period of intense competition and fragmentation among different commercial and academic UNIX variants in the 1980s and early 1990s, marked by rival standards and vendor alliances.
  • D. UNIX: A History and a Memoir
    UNIX: A History and a Memoir is a reflective book by computer scientist Brian Kernighan that recounts the development of the Unix operating system and his personal experiences working on it at Bell Labs.
  • E. Unix
    Unix is a powerful, multiuser, multitasking operating system originally developed in the 1970s that has profoundly influenced modern computing and inspired many derivative systems like Linux and macOS.
  • 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_69ca8365b28081909e48e45e95dfc405 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc604ac0288190b59344bced8ac733 completed April 1, 2026, 12:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf896382708190a08c6bacf1157066 completed April 3, 2026, 9:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf8ab6c1a8819097b8a84902a10296 completed April 3, 2026, 9:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf8bc521dc81908918b48a25f290bb completed April 3, 2026, 9:43 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:47 p.m.