Triple

T12609198
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Prussian court of Frederick the Great E301065 entity
Predicate hostedPhilosopher P2592 FINISHED
Object Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Julien Offray de La Mettrie was an 18th-century French physician and materialist philosopher best known for his radical work "L'Homme Machine," which argued that humans are purely physical, mechanistic beings.
E992756 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: Julien Offray de La Mettrie | Statement: [Prussian court of Frederick the Great, hostedPhilosopher, Julien Offray de La Mettrie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Context triple: [Prussian court of Frederick the Great, hostedPhilosopher, Julien Offray de La Mettrie]
  • A. Baron d'Holbach
    Baron d'Holbach was an 18th-century French-German philosopher and prominent atheist known for his materialist and anti-religious writings that helped shape Enlightenment thought.
  • B. Helvétius
    Helvétius was an 18th-century French philosopher and Enlightenment thinker known for his materialist views, emphasis on sensory experience, and influential writings on ethics and education.
  • C. Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
    Étienne Bonnot de Condillac was an 18th-century French philosopher and epistemologist known for his radical empiricism and influential contributions to Enlightenment thought, especially in the philosophy of mind and language.
  • D. Didier Diderot
    Didier Diderot was the son of the French Enlightenment philosopher and writer Denis Diderot and the father of Angélique Diderot.
  • E. Denis Diderot
    Denis Diderot was an 18th-century French philosopher, writer, and co-founder of the Encyclopédie, renowned as a central intellectual of the Enlightenment.
  • 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: Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Triple: [Prussian court of Frederick the Great, hostedPhilosopher, Julien Offray de La Mettrie]
Generated description
Julien Offray de La Mettrie was an 18th-century French physician and materialist philosopher best known for his radical work "L'Homme Machine," which argued that humans are purely physical, mechanistic beings.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Target entity description: Julien Offray de La Mettrie was an 18th-century French physician and materialist philosopher best known for his radical work "L'Homme Machine," which argued that humans are purely physical, mechanistic beings.
  • A. Baron d'Holbach
    Baron d'Holbach was an 18th-century French-German philosopher and prominent atheist known for his materialist and anti-religious writings that helped shape Enlightenment thought.
  • B. Helvétius
    Helvétius was an 18th-century French philosopher and Enlightenment thinker known for his materialist views, emphasis on sensory experience, and influential writings on ethics and education.
  • C. Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
    Étienne Bonnot de Condillac was an 18th-century French philosopher and epistemologist known for his radical empiricism and influential contributions to Enlightenment thought, especially in the philosophy of mind and language.
  • D. Didier Diderot
    Didier Diderot was the son of the French Enlightenment philosopher and writer Denis Diderot and the father of Angélique Diderot.
  • E. Denis Diderot
    Denis Diderot was an 18th-century French philosopher, writer, and co-founder of the Encyclopédie, renowned as a central intellectual of the Enlightenment.
  • 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_69d7bdea2ca881908f379526c13b1145 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d960c2e5b88190a7cc16002b218d8a completed April 10, 2026, 8:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f65ecf3e248190868c1eb864191f8b completed May 2, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f66088890c8190b67a958d7f0822a6 completed May 2, 2026, 8:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6613ce1108190851cf8491fe666c8 completed May 2, 2026, 8:40 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:11 p.m.