Triple

T12330011
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Perry E293933 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object “A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality”
“A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality” is a philosophical work by John Perry that explores questions about what makes a person the same over time and whether personal identity can persist after death.
E976074 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 Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality” | Statement: [John Perry, notableWork, “A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality”]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality”
Context triple: [John Perry, notableWork, “A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality”]
  • A. Rethinking Life and Death
    Rethinking Life and Death is a philosophical book by ethicist Peter Singer that challenges traditional moral views on issues such as euthanasia, abortion, and the value of human life in light of modern medical technology.
  • B. The Human Ego – His Freedom and Immortality
    "The Human Ego – His Freedom and Immortality" is a philosophical chapter by Muhammad Iqbal that explores the nature of the self, its autonomy, and its potential for eternal life within his reconstruction of Islamic religious thought.
  • C. On the Immortality of the Soul
    On the Immortality of the Soul is a philosophical treatise by the Middle Platonist thinker Numenius of Apamea that explores the nature, persistence, and metaphysical status of the human soul.
  • D. The Physics of Immortality
    The Physics of Immortality is a controversial 1994 book by physicist Frank J. Tipler that uses speculative cosmology and physics to argue for the scientific possibility of resurrection and eternal life.
  • E. The Philosophy of the Self
    The Philosophy of the Self is a work by social psychologist and philosopher George Herbert Mead that explores how individual identity emerges through social interaction and symbolic communication.
  • 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 Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality”
Triple: [John Perry, notableWork, “A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality”]
Generated description
“A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality” is a philosophical work by John Perry that explores questions about what makes a person the same over time and whether personal identity can persist after death.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality”
Target entity description: “A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality” is a philosophical work by John Perry that explores questions about what makes a person the same over time and whether personal identity can persist after death.
  • A. Rethinking Life and Death
    Rethinking Life and Death is a philosophical book by ethicist Peter Singer that challenges traditional moral views on issues such as euthanasia, abortion, and the value of human life in light of modern medical technology.
  • B. The Human Ego – His Freedom and Immortality
    "The Human Ego – His Freedom and Immortality" is a philosophical chapter by Muhammad Iqbal that explores the nature of the self, its autonomy, and its potential for eternal life within his reconstruction of Islamic religious thought.
  • C. On the Immortality of the Soul
    On the Immortality of the Soul is a philosophical treatise by the Middle Platonist thinker Numenius of Apamea that explores the nature, persistence, and metaphysical status of the human soul.
  • D. The Physics of Immortality
    The Physics of Immortality is a controversial 1994 book by physicist Frank J. Tipler that uses speculative cosmology and physics to argue for the scientific possibility of resurrection and eternal life.
  • E. The Philosophy of the Self
    The Philosophy of the Self is a work by social psychologist and philosopher George Herbert Mead that explores how individual identity emerges through social interaction and symbolic communication.
  • 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_69d6ab6ae0dc8190b1522a9c1c55c114 completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d93f621570819091ee1db2609233ea completed April 10, 2026, 6:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f61e9114f48190988b84eaec2e810f completed May 2, 2026, 3:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f61fd2429c8190a8a7c46c312e262d completed May 2, 2026, 4:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f623fbb32081909b7daa515eebf75d completed May 2, 2026, 4:19 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:53 p.m.