Triple

T18961795
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Robert I. Sutton E463930 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense
Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense is a management book that critiques common business myths and advocates for evidence-based decision-making in organizations.
E1350824 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: Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense | Statement: [Robert I. Sutton, notableWork, Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense
Context triple: [Robert I. Sutton, notableWork, Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense]
  • A. The Challenge of Facts
    "The Challenge of Facts" is an influential essay by American sociologist and classical liberal thinker William Graham Sumner that critiques moralistic interference in social and economic processes and defends empirical, scientific analysis of society.
  • B. Before the Fact
    Before the Fact is a 1932 psychological crime novel by Anthony Berkeley Cox (writing as Francis Iles), best known as the dark, suspenseful source material for Alfred Hitchcock’s film "Suspicion."
  • C. Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
    Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science is a classic skeptical book by Martin Gardner that critically examines pseudoscience, fringe theories, and popular scientific misconceptions.
  • D. The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation
    The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation is a satirical reference book that compiles famously wrong predictions, statements, and expert pronouncements to highlight the fallibility of authority.
  • E. Truth and the Absence of Fact
    Truth and the Absence of Fact is a philosophical monograph by Hartry Field that develops a deflationary theory of truth while challenging traditional notions of facts and their role in semantics and metaphysics.
  • 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: Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense
Triple: [Robert I. Sutton, notableWork, Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense]
Generated description
Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense is a management book that critiques common business myths and advocates for evidence-based decision-making in organizations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense
Target entity description: Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense is a management book that critiques common business myths and advocates for evidence-based decision-making in organizations.
  • A. The Challenge of Facts
    "The Challenge of Facts" is an influential essay by American sociologist and classical liberal thinker William Graham Sumner that critiques moralistic interference in social and economic processes and defends empirical, scientific analysis of society.
  • B. Before the Fact
    Before the Fact is a 1932 psychological crime novel by Anthony Berkeley Cox (writing as Francis Iles), best known as the dark, suspenseful source material for Alfred Hitchcock’s film "Suspicion."
  • C. Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
    Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science is a classic skeptical book by Martin Gardner that critically examines pseudoscience, fringe theories, and popular scientific misconceptions.
  • D. The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation
    The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation is a satirical reference book that compiles famously wrong predictions, statements, and expert pronouncements to highlight the fallibility of authority.
  • E. Truth and the Absence of Fact
    Truth and the Absence of Fact is a philosophical monograph by Hartry Field that develops a deflationary theory of truth while challenging traditional notions of facts and their role in semantics and metaphysics.
  • 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_69d8dcffc278819086792a4ebfddfafa completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5d5d368488190b0c7489335e5dd91 completed April 20, 2026, 7:29 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a059fd91b248190962ec54be5d75d59 completed May 14, 2026, 10:11 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05a14c7a548190921d1c750de71741 completed May 14, 2026, 10:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a05a2030e788190acb66dade85783ad completed May 14, 2026, 10:20 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, noon