Triple

T20484189
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edward C. Tolman E502541 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men
Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men is Edward C. Tolman’s landmark 1932 book that introduced his theory of purposive behaviorism, emphasizing goal-directed behavior and cognitive processes in animals and humans.
E1434636 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: Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men | Statement: [Edward C. Tolman, notableWork, Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men
Context triple: [Edward C. Tolman, notableWork, Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men]
  • A. The Study of Instinct
    The Study of Instinct is a landmark 1951 book by ethologist Niko Tinbergen that systematically analyzes animal instinctive behavior and helped establish the foundations of modern ethology.
  • B. Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals
    "Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals" is Edward L. Thorndike’s landmark early work in comparative psychology that introduced experimental methods to study learning and problem-solving in animals.
  • C. Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology
    Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology is a foundational psychological work by Wilhelm Wundt that explores the comparative study of mental processes in humans and animals.
  • D. The Organization of Behavior
    The Organization of Behavior is a landmark 1949 book by psychologist Donald Hebb that introduced the influential theory of Hebbian learning to explain how neural networks underlie learning and behavior.
  • E. The Structure of Behavior
    The Structure of Behavior is a foundational philosophical work by Maurice Merleau-Ponty that critiques both empiricism and intellectualism while developing a phenomenological account of perception and embodied behavior.
  • 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: Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men
Triple: [Edward C. Tolman, notableWork, Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men]
Generated description
Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men is Edward C. Tolman’s landmark 1932 book that introduced his theory of purposive behaviorism, emphasizing goal-directed behavior and cognitive processes in animals and humans.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men
Target entity description: Purposive Behavior in Animals and Men is Edward C. Tolman’s landmark 1932 book that introduced his theory of purposive behaviorism, emphasizing goal-directed behavior and cognitive processes in animals and humans.
  • A. The Study of Instinct
    The Study of Instinct is a landmark 1951 book by ethologist Niko Tinbergen that systematically analyzes animal instinctive behavior and helped establish the foundations of modern ethology.
  • B. Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals
    "Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals" is Edward L. Thorndike’s landmark early work in comparative psychology that introduced experimental methods to study learning and problem-solving in animals.
  • C. Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology
    Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology is a foundational psychological work by Wilhelm Wundt that explores the comparative study of mental processes in humans and animals.
  • D. The Organization of Behavior
    The Organization of Behavior is a landmark 1949 book by psychologist Donald Hebb that introduced the influential theory of Hebbian learning to explain how neural networks underlie learning and behavior.
  • E. The Structure of Behavior
    The Structure of Behavior is a foundational philosophical work by Maurice Merleau-Ponty that critiques both empiricism and intellectualism while developing a phenomenological account of perception and embodied behavior.
  • 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_69e0b4af32848190aea80682b44d5d6e completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e69b59ae2c8190bfa26a3f1e59b8d1 completed April 20, 2026, 9:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0893afefc881909807cd3a2eb92fcf completed May 16, 2026, 3:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0894753bb08190a9c07a9264b2b292 completed May 16, 2026, 3:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08952b742c8190b00f806ab772e46d completed May 16, 2026, 4:02 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:34 a.m.