Triple
T22593420
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Janna Levin |
E565007
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entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
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FINISHED |
| Object |
A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines is a philosophical novel by Janna Levin that intertwines the lives and ideas of Alan Turing and Kurt Gödel to explore the nature of mathematics, logic, and madness.
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E1544751
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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: A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines | Statement: [Janna Levin, notableWork, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines Context triple: [Janna Levin, notableWork, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines]
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A.
The Mental Life of Some Machines
The Mental Life of Some Machines is a philosophical essay by Hilary Putnam that explores whether and how machines could possess mental states, contributing to debates in philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence.
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B.
The Undecidable
The Undecidable is a classic anthology edited by Martin Davis that collects foundational papers on computability, Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, and the limits of formal mathematical systems.
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C.
The Universal Computer
The Universal Computer is a book by mathematician and logician Martin Davis that traces the history and development of the concept of computation and the universal Turing machine.
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D.
Computability and Unsolvability
Computability and Unsolvability is a classic 1958 textbook by Martin Davis that systematically develops the theory of computable functions and undecidable problems, helping to shape modern computability theory.
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E.
Computing with Register Machines
"Computing with Register Machines" is a chapter in the classic computer science textbook *Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs* that introduces low-level machine models and shows how higher-level language constructs can be implemented using simple register-based operations.
- 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: A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines Triple: [Janna Levin, notableWork, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines]
Generated description
A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines is a philosophical novel by Janna Levin that intertwines the lives and ideas of Alan Turing and Kurt Gödel to explore the nature of mathematics, logic, and madness.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines Target entity description: A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines is a philosophical novel by Janna Levin that intertwines the lives and ideas of Alan Turing and Kurt Gödel to explore the nature of mathematics, logic, and madness.
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A.
The Mental Life of Some Machines
The Mental Life of Some Machines is a philosophical essay by Hilary Putnam that explores whether and how machines could possess mental states, contributing to debates in philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence.
-
B.
The Undecidable
The Undecidable is a classic anthology edited by Martin Davis that collects foundational papers on computability, Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, and the limits of formal mathematical systems.
-
C.
The Universal Computer
The Universal Computer is a book by mathematician and logician Martin Davis that traces the history and development of the concept of computation and the universal Turing machine.
-
D.
Computability and Unsolvability
Computability and Unsolvability is a classic 1958 textbook by Martin Davis that systematically develops the theory of computable functions and undecidable problems, helping to shape modern computability theory.
-
E.
Computing with Register Machines
"Computing with Register Machines" is a chapter in the classic computer science textbook *Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs* that introduces low-level machine models and shows how higher-level language constructs can be implemented using simple register-based operations.
- 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_69e245836014819091b91ed3074742a3 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f16163cb248190b377b110d80a6730 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 1:39 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a0b3d5e31308190a11bff9270795efd |
completed | May 18, 2026, 4:25 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a0b3e908a308190af37f63904f38915 |
completed | May 18, 2026, 4:30 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a0b3f8d85cc8190812924d466d18735 |
completed | May 18, 2026, 4:34 p.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 2:49 p.m.