Triple

T9698603
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harvey V. Fineberg E234715 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease
The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease is a detailed case study examining the U.S. government's 1976 swine flu vaccination program and the complexities of public health decision-making under uncertainty.
E814977 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 Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease | Statement: [Harvey V. Fineberg, notableWork, The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease
Context triple: [Harvey V. Fineberg, notableWork, The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease]
  • A. Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know
    Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know is an accessible, expert-driven overview of how pandemics emerge, spread, and can be controlled, written for a general audience by Nobel Prize–winning immunologist Peter C. Doherty.
  • B. Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control
    Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control is a seminal book that applies mathematical modeling to understand and predict the spread and control of infectious diseases in human populations.
  • C. How Contagion Works
    How Contagion Works is a short nonfiction book by Italian writer Paolo Giordano that reflects on the COVID-19 pandemic and explores how contagion shapes societies, behaviors, and interconnected global systems.
  • D. The Great Influenza
    The Great Influenza is John M. Barry’s historical account of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, examining its scientific, medical, and social impact on the modern world.
  • E. Infections and Inequalities
    "Infections and Inequalities" is a seminal book by physician-anthropologist Paul Farmer that examines how poverty, social injustice, and global power imbalances shape the distribution and treatment of infectious diseases.
  • 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 Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease
Triple: [Harvey V. Fineberg, notableWork, The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease]
Generated description
The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease is a detailed case study examining the U.S. government's 1976 swine flu vaccination program and the complexities of public health decision-making under uncertainty.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease
Target entity description: The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease is a detailed case study examining the U.S. government's 1976 swine flu vaccination program and the complexities of public health decision-making under uncertainty.
  • A. Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know
    Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know is an accessible, expert-driven overview of how pandemics emerge, spread, and can be controlled, written for a general audience by Nobel Prize–winning immunologist Peter C. Doherty.
  • B. Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control
    Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control is a seminal book that applies mathematical modeling to understand and predict the spread and control of infectious diseases in human populations.
  • C. How Contagion Works
    How Contagion Works is a short nonfiction book by Italian writer Paolo Giordano that reflects on the COVID-19 pandemic and explores how contagion shapes societies, behaviors, and interconnected global systems.
  • D. The Great Influenza
    The Great Influenza is John M. Barry’s historical account of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, examining its scientific, medical, and social impact on the modern world.
  • E. Infections and Inequalities
    "Infections and Inequalities" is a seminal book by physician-anthropologist Paul Farmer that examines how poverty, social injustice, and global power imbalances shape the distribution and treatment of infectious diseases.
  • 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_69ca84cb580c8190a7e5f4b3bcdaf2a4 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9d3d425c8190b652d84186b5ce9f completed April 1, 2026, 10:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1912a551c8190bd6b48790f117f71 completed April 4, 2026, 10:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d193d8dd7c819094ca47105c3135e6 completed April 4, 2026, 10:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1943d67988190aac089266d2d4abc completed April 4, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:18 p.m.