Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming E507434 entity
Predicate relatedWork P37 FINISHED
Object The Hockey Stick Illusion
The Hockey Stick Illusion is a controversial book by statistician Steve McIntyre and writer Andrew Montford that critiques the methods and conclusions behind the famous “hockey stick” graph of historical global temperatures used in climate science.
E1443025 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 Hockey Stick Illusion | Statement: [An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming, relatedWork, The Hockey Stick Illusion]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Hockey Stick Illusion
Context triple: [An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming, relatedWork, The Hockey Stick Illusion]
  • A. The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future
    "The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future" is a book by U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe arguing that mainstream climate change science is fraudulent and politically motivated.
  • B. 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.
  • C. An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming
    "An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming" is a book by Nigel Lawson that presents a skeptical, economically focused critique of mainstream climate change policies and alarmism.
  • D. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
    "Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment" is a non-fiction book that examines the often-overlooked variability and inconsistency in human decision-making and offers strategies to reduce such errors in fields like law, medicine, and business.
  • E. 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.
  • 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 Hockey Stick Illusion
Triple: [An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming, relatedWork, The Hockey Stick Illusion]
Generated description
The Hockey Stick Illusion is a controversial book by statistician Steve McIntyre and writer Andrew Montford that critiques the methods and conclusions behind the famous “hockey stick” graph of historical global temperatures used in climate science.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Hockey Stick Illusion
Target entity description: The Hockey Stick Illusion is a controversial book by statistician Steve McIntyre and writer Andrew Montford that critiques the methods and conclusions behind the famous “hockey stick” graph of historical global temperatures used in climate science.
  • A. The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future
    "The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future" is a book by U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe arguing that mainstream climate change science is fraudulent and politically motivated.
  • B. 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.
  • C. An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming
    "An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming" is a book by Nigel Lawson that presents a skeptical, economically focused critique of mainstream climate change policies and alarmism.
  • D. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
    "Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment" is a non-fiction book that examines the often-overlooked variability and inconsistency in human decision-making and offers strategies to reduce such errors in fields like law, medicine, and business.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69e0b4bf58c081908e52a4500e03ff83 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6af2076b48190b9c8afb4eac65f46 completed April 20, 2026, 10:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08c59142648190a5100ba4477dc83d completed May 16, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08c6877618819096a3621c19bfc9f2 completed May 16, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08c70c109c8190b4b38ea86f963f38 completed May 16, 2026, 7:35 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:43 a.m.