Triple
T8900146
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Illustrations and Proofs of the Principle of Population |
E211909
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasPerspective |
P380
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Malthusian |
E764521
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Malthusian | Statement: [Illustrations and Proofs of the Principle of Population, hasPerspective, Malthusian]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Malthusian Context triple: [Illustrations and Proofs of the Principle of Population, hasPerspective, Malthusian]
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A.
Malthusianism
chosen
Malthusianism is a demographic and economic theory asserting that population growth tends to outpace food production, leading to inevitable checks such as famine, disease, and conflict unless restrained.
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B.
Malthusian catastrophe
A Malthusian catastrophe is a theoretical scenario in which unchecked population growth outstrips food production, leading to widespread famine, disease, and social collapse.
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C.
neo-Malthusian
A neo-Malthusian is an advocate of the view that rapid population growth threatens environmental sustainability and human well-being, often calling for population control measures to prevent resource depletion and ecological crisis.
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D.
Thomas Malthus
Thomas Malthus was an English economist and demographer best known for his theory that population growth tends to outpace food production, leading to inevitable checks such as famine and disease.
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E.
Henry Malthus
Henry Malthus was a son of the influential British economist and demographer Thomas Robert Malthus, known primarily through this familial connection.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca83918d3081909b326fa3750cb8c8 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cc64278b208190afc3dec64ecdb0f5 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 12:17 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cfba212fd081909ae87853c81e1d30 |
completed | April 3, 2026, 1:01 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:54 p.m.