Triple

T1396177
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ernst Cassirer E30669 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object An Essay on Man
An Essay on Man is a philosophical work by Ernst Cassirer that explores human nature and culture through the concept of humans as "symbolic animals."
 E160417 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: An Essay on Man | Statement: [Ernst Cassirer, notableWork, An Essay on Man]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: An Essay on Man
Context triple: [Ernst Cassirer, notableWork, An Essay on Man]
  • A. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
    Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical work by David Hume that presents a skeptical examination of arguments for the existence and nature of God through a series of fictional dialogues.
  • B. Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
    Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous is a philosophical work by George Berkeley that presents his arguments for immaterialism and critiques of skepticism through a conversational dialogue format.
  • C. Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect
    Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect is an unfinished philosophical work by Baruch Spinoza that outlines a method for improving the mind to attain true knowledge and intellectual perfection.
  • D. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
    A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge is George Berkeley’s seminal philosophical work in which he develops his idealist theory that reality consists only of minds and their ideas, denying the existence of material substance.
  • E. Meditations on First Philosophy
    Meditations on First Philosophy is René Descartes’ foundational philosophical treatise in which he employs radical doubt to establish certain knowledge and famously argues for the distinction between mind and body.
  • 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: An Essay on Man
Triple: [Ernst Cassirer, notableWork, An Essay on Man]
Generated description
An Essay on Man is a philosophical work by Ernst Cassirer that explores human nature and culture through the concept of humans as "symbolic animals."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: An Essay on Man
Target entity description: An Essay on Man is a philosophical work by Ernst Cassirer that explores human nature and culture through the concept of humans as "symbolic animals."
  • A. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
    Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical work by David Hume that presents a skeptical examination of arguments for the existence and nature of God through a series of fictional dialogues.
  • B. Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
    Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous is a philosophical work by George Berkeley that presents his arguments for immaterialism and critiques of skepticism through a conversational dialogue format.
  • C. Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect
    Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect is an unfinished philosophical work by Baruch Spinoza that outlines a method for improving the mind to attain true knowledge and intellectual perfection.
  • D. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
    A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge is George Berkeley’s seminal philosophical work in which he develops his idealist theory that reality consists only of minds and their ideas, denying the existence of material substance.
  • E. Meditations on First Philosophy
    Meditations on First Philosophy is René Descartes’ foundational philosophical treatise in which he employs radical doubt to establish certain knowledge and famously argues for the distinction between mind and body.
  • 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_69a498fd4e408190bd73eca30ea9754c completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c37fd6e0819084d610ef041db3af completed March 1, 2026, 10:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acde310f748190a5c58caf4fbaa5c5 completed March 8, 2026, 2:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acdee073fc819098c906d91870b317 completed March 8, 2026, 2:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ace0a7ddc08190a44be1707587351b completed March 8, 2026, 2:36 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:59 p.m.