Triple
T11683104
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John W. N. Watkins |
E277667
|
entity |
| Predicate | movement |
P81
|
FINISHED |
| Object | critical rationalism |
E829819
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: critical rationalism | Statement: [John W. N. Watkins, movement, critical rationalism]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: critical rationalism Context triple: [John W. N. Watkins, movement, critical rationalism]
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A.
Popperian critical rationalism
chosen
Popperian critical rationalism is a philosophical approach, developed from Karl Popper’s ideas, that emphasizes fallibilism, open criticism, and the continual testing and revision of knowledge claims rather than their justification.
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B.
falsificationism
Falsificationism is a philosophy of science, chiefly associated with Karl Popper, which holds that scientific theories can never be conclusively verified but can and should be rigorously tested and potentially refuted by empirical evidence.
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C.
logical positivism
Logical positivism is a 20th-century philosophical movement that emphasizes the verification of statements through empirical observation and logical analysis, rejecting metaphysics as cognitively meaningless.
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D.
Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes is a seminal philosophical work by Imre Lakatos that refines Karl Popper’s falsificationism by introducing the concept of competing scientific research programmes and criteria for their progressive or degenerative development.
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E.
Truth, Rationality, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge
"Truth, Rationality, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge" is a philosophical work by Karl Popper that explores how scientific knowledge progresses through critical rationalism and the rigorous testing of theories.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d6aafe02d881909900d54ad7d4af84 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d8a462bb2881909238107d34c0a28d |
completed | April 10, 2026, 7:18 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ef142269d08190a9e5cf8d6268168b |
completed | April 27, 2026, 7:45 a.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:40 p.m.