Triple

T12348233
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ralph Barton Perry E294412 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Thought and Character of William James
The Thought and Character of William James is a major biographical and philosophical study that examines the life, ideas, and intellectual legacy of the American psychologist and philosopher William James.
E978515 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 Thought and Character of William James | Statement: [Ralph Barton Perry, notableWork, The Thought and Character of William James]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Thought and Character of William James
Context triple: [Ralph Barton Perry, notableWork, The Thought and Character of William James]
  • A. The Mind and Its Place in Nature
    The Mind and Its Place in Nature is a 1925 philosophical work by C. D. Broad that systematically analyzes theories of mind–body relations and helped shape early 20th-century philosophy of mind.
  • B. The Discovery of the Mind
    The Discovery of the Mind is a seminal work of classical scholarship that explores how ancient Greek literature and thought gave rise to the concept of individual consciousness and self-awareness in Western culture.
  • C. Mind and World
    Mind and World is a highly influential philosophical work by John McDowell that examines the relationship between mind, experience, and reality, challenging traditional divides between the conceptual and the empirical.
  • D. Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling
    Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling is a multi-volume philosophical work by Susanne Langer that explores the nature of mind, emotion, and human experience through a symbolic and process-oriented framework.
  • E. The Rediscovery of the Mind
    The Rediscovery of the Mind is a philosophical work by John Searle that critiques computational and reductionist theories of consciousness and argues for a biologically grounded account of the mind.
  • 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 Thought and Character of William James
Triple: [Ralph Barton Perry, notableWork, The Thought and Character of William James]
Generated description
The Thought and Character of William James is a major biographical and philosophical study that examines the life, ideas, and intellectual legacy of the American psychologist and philosopher William James.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Thought and Character of William James
Target entity description: The Thought and Character of William James is a major biographical and philosophical study that examines the life, ideas, and intellectual legacy of the American psychologist and philosopher William James.
  • A. The Mind and Its Place in Nature
    The Mind and Its Place in Nature is a 1925 philosophical work by C. D. Broad that systematically analyzes theories of mind–body relations and helped shape early 20th-century philosophy of mind.
  • B. The Discovery of the Mind
    The Discovery of the Mind is a seminal work of classical scholarship that explores how ancient Greek literature and thought gave rise to the concept of individual consciousness and self-awareness in Western culture.
  • C. Mind and World
    Mind and World is a highly influential philosophical work by John McDowell that examines the relationship between mind, experience, and reality, challenging traditional divides between the conceptual and the empirical.
  • D. Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling
    Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling is a multi-volume philosophical work by Susanne Langer that explores the nature of mind, emotion, and human experience through a symbolic and process-oriented framework.
  • E. The Rediscovery of the Mind
    The Rediscovery of the Mind is a philosophical work by John Searle that critiques computational and reductionist theories of consciousness and argues for a biologically grounded account of the mind.
  • 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_69d6ab6ccbec8190b09e2d357aa80064 completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d93f7ba17481908b03af7316b28d9b completed April 10, 2026, 6:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f62aae8d7c8190a722c28a5a153d1d completed May 2, 2026, 4:47 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f62c569a6c8190aecf8a4c627d8893 completed May 2, 2026, 4:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f62d13237881908b7c2dca173e20cf completed May 2, 2026, 4:57 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:53 p.m.