Triple

T13892471
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Aspects of Scientific Explanation E334007 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object Peter Railton
Peter Railton is an American philosopher best known for his influential work in ethics and the philosophy of science, particularly on moral realism and scientific explanation.
 E1067556 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: Peter Railton | Statement: [Aspects of Scientific Explanation, influenced, Peter Railton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Peter Railton
Context triple: [Aspects of Scientific Explanation, influenced, Peter Railton]
  • A. Owen Flanagan
    Owen Flanagan is an American philosopher known for his work in philosophy of mind, ethics, and the relationship between cognitive science and moral psychology.
  • B. John Martin Fischer
    John Martin Fischer is an American philosopher renowned for his influential work on free will, moral responsibility, and the philosophy of death.
  • C. Peter van Inwagen
    Peter van Inwagen is a prominent contemporary American analytic philosopher best known for his work on metaphysics, free will, and the philosophy of religion.
  • D. T. M. Scanlon
    T. M. Scanlon is an American moral philosopher best known for his contractualist theory of morality, especially as developed in his influential book "What We Owe to Each Other."
  • E. Galen Strawson
    Galen Strawson is a contemporary British philosopher known for his influential work in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and the critique of free will and moral responsibility.
  • 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: Peter Railton
Triple: [Aspects of Scientific Explanation, influenced, Peter Railton]
Generated description
Peter Railton is an American philosopher best known for his influential work in ethics and the philosophy of science, particularly on moral realism and scientific explanation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Peter Railton
Target entity description: Peter Railton is an American philosopher best known for his influential work in ethics and the philosophy of science, particularly on moral realism and scientific explanation.
  • A. Owen Flanagan
    Owen Flanagan is an American philosopher known for his work in philosophy of mind, ethics, and the relationship between cognitive science and moral psychology.
  • B. John Martin Fischer
    John Martin Fischer is an American philosopher renowned for his influential work on free will, moral responsibility, and the philosophy of death.
  • C. Peter van Inwagen
    Peter van Inwagen is a prominent contemporary American analytic philosopher best known for his work on metaphysics, free will, and the philosophy of religion.
  • D. T. M. Scanlon
    T. M. Scanlon is an American moral philosopher best known for his contractualist theory of morality, especially as developed in his influential book "What We Owe to Each Other."
  • E. Galen Strawson
    Galen Strawson is a contemporary British philosopher known for his influential work in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and the critique of free will and moral responsibility.
  • 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_69d81c5dd2d48190b7a5fc1e009de936 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de23a537d4819093c2bae2a244816a completed April 14, 2026, 11:23 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7c71ca8a881908ac02687fbfe62fb completed May 3, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7c7e1247481908073c1e282c3619f completed May 3, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7c8f2b5588190b6143d676eb648a0 completed May 3, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:15 p.m.