Triple
T12215521
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John McDowell |
E291073
|
entity |
| Predicate | givenName |
P17
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
John
John McDowell is a prominent South African-born philosopher known for his influential work in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and ethics.
|
E972144
|
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: John | Statement: [John McDowell, givenName, John]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Context triple: [John McDowell, givenName, John]
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A.
John
John is the given name of the influential American financier and banker J. P. Morgan, a central figure in early 20th-century U.S. finance and industry.
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B.
John
John is the first name of American politician Mick Mulvaney, who served as acting White House Chief of Staff under President Donald Trump.
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C.
John
John L. Hennessy is an American computer scientist and academic leader best known as a pioneer of RISC architecture and as the former president of Stanford University.
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D.
John
John B. Magruder was a Confederate major general during the American Civil War, known for his leadership in the Peninsula Campaign and his flamboyant personality.
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E.
John
John II, Count Palatine of Simmern, was a 16th-century German nobleman of the House of Wittelsbach who ruled the Palatinate-Simmern territory within the Holy Roman Empire.
- 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: John Triple: [John McDowell, givenName, John]
Generated description
John McDowell is a prominent South African-born philosopher known for his influential work in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and ethics.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Target entity description: John McDowell is a prominent South African-born philosopher known for his influential work in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and ethics.
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A.
John
John is the given name of John Finnis, a prominent legal philosopher known for his work on natural law theory.
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B.
John
John is the given name of the American philosopher and educational reformer John F. Dewey.
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C.
John
John is the given name of the British philosopher of language J. L. Austin, known for developing speech act theory.
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D.
John
John is the given name of the influential American political philosopher John Rawls, known for his theory of justice as fairness.
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E.
John
John is the given name of the influential English philosopher John Locke, a key figure in empiricism and liberal political theory.
- 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_69d6ab65923081909acfc61b7a612233 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d91c931cec819083ca19be06a33e1c |
completed | April 10, 2026, 3:51 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f60a62f0fc8190a3d15ccfb23bb788 |
completed | May 2, 2026, 2:29 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69f6128da2c4819095bef0cb02a3d39d |
completed | May 2, 2026, 3:04 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69f6134f17c88190a17e1672b9eb2191 |
completed | May 2, 2026, 3:07 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:51 p.m.