Triple

T12473977
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Quentin Skinner E298128 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Hobbes and Republican Liberty
"Hobbes and Republican Liberty" is a scholarly work by Quentin Skinner that reinterprets Thomas Hobbes’s political philosophy in relation to the tradition of republican ideas about freedom and state power.
 E985550 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: Hobbes and Republican Liberty | Statement: [Quentin Skinner, notableWork, Hobbes and Republican Liberty]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hobbes and Republican Liberty
Context triple: [Quentin Skinner, notableWork, Hobbes and Republican Liberty]
  • A. Hobbes’s System of Ideas
    Hobbes’s System of Ideas is a scholarly work by philosopher John W. N. Watkins that analyzes and reconstructs the philosophical doctrines and conceptual framework of Thomas Hobbes.
  • B. The Science of Liberty
    The Science of Liberty is a nonfiction book by science writer Timothy Ferris that explores the historical relationship between scientific progress and the development of liberal democracy.
  • C. The Logic of Liberty
    The Logic of Liberty is a political and economic work by Michael Polanyi that explores the foundations of a free society, emphasizing spontaneous order, personal responsibility, and the limits of centralized planning.
  • D. Four Essays on Liberty
    Four Essays on Liberty is a collection of political philosophy essays by Isaiah Berlin that explores concepts of freedom, particularly his influential distinction between negative and positive liberty.
  • E. Hobbes (Blackwood’s Philosophical Classics series)
    Hobbes (Blackwood’s Philosophical Classics series) is George Croom Robertson’s scholarly monograph offering a concise, critical introduction to the life, thought, and major works of the philosopher Thomas Hobbes.
  • 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: Hobbes and Republican Liberty
Triple: [Quentin Skinner, notableWork, Hobbes and Republican Liberty]
Generated description
"Hobbes and Republican Liberty" is a scholarly work by Quentin Skinner that reinterprets Thomas Hobbes’s political philosophy in relation to the tradition of republican ideas about freedom and state power.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hobbes and Republican Liberty
Target entity description: "Hobbes and Republican Liberty" is a scholarly work by Quentin Skinner that reinterprets Thomas Hobbes’s political philosophy in relation to the tradition of republican ideas about freedom and state power.
  • A. Hobbes’s System of Ideas
    Hobbes’s System of Ideas is a scholarly work by philosopher John W. N. Watkins that analyzes and reconstructs the philosophical doctrines and conceptual framework of Thomas Hobbes.
  • B. The Science of Liberty
    The Science of Liberty is a nonfiction book by science writer Timothy Ferris that explores the historical relationship between scientific progress and the development of liberal democracy.
  • C. The Logic of Liberty
    The Logic of Liberty is a political and economic work by Michael Polanyi that explores the foundations of a free society, emphasizing spontaneous order, personal responsibility, and the limits of centralized planning.
  • D. Four Essays on Liberty
    Four Essays on Liberty is a collection of political philosophy essays by Isaiah Berlin that explores concepts of freedom, particularly his influential distinction between negative and positive liberty.
  • E. Hobbes (Blackwood’s Philosophical Classics series)
    Hobbes (Blackwood’s Philosophical Classics series) is George Croom Robertson’s scholarly monograph offering a concise, critical introduction to the life, thought, and major works of the philosopher Thomas Hobbes.
  • 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_69d6ada270808190b1a2b2e7b02bb426 completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d94dcb194c81908b5e0320ddfd463c completed April 10, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f63f2373308190b41aafa635c8de5e completed May 2, 2026, 6:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6437e88c881909b7f1d55c11b0825 completed May 2, 2026, 6:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f644464c0c8190a8d4ea4914d32e7f completed May 2, 2026, 6:36 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:56 p.m.