Triple

T14321442
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Owen Flanagan E355098 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World
The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World is a philosophical book by Owen Flanagan that explores how meaning, morality, and purpose can arise within a purely naturalistic, scientifically understood universe.
E1093680 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 Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World | Statement: [Owen Flanagan, notableWork, The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World
Context triple: [Owen Flanagan, notableWork, The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World]
  • A. "Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False"
    "Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False" is a controversial 2012 philosophical book by Thomas Nagel that challenges mainstream materialist and evolutionary explanations of mind, consciousness, and value.
  • B. The Question of Consciousness
    "The Question of Consciousness" is a chapter in the Dalai Lama’s book *The Universe in a Single Atom* that explores the nature of consciousness through dialogue between Buddhist philosophy and modern science.
  • C. Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
    "Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist" is a book by neuroscientist Christof Koch that blends personal memoir with a scientific exploration of the neural basis of conscious experience.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain
    Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain is a foundational book that integrates neuroscience and philosophy to explore how brain science can inform and reshape our understanding 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 Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World
Triple: [Owen Flanagan, notableWork, The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World]
Generated description
The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World is a philosophical book by Owen Flanagan that explores how meaning, morality, and purpose can arise within a purely naturalistic, scientifically understood universe.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World
Target entity description: The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World is a philosophical book by Owen Flanagan that explores how meaning, morality, and purpose can arise within a purely naturalistic, scientifically understood universe.
  • A. "Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False"
    "Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False" is a controversial 2012 philosophical book by Thomas Nagel that challenges mainstream materialist and evolutionary explanations of mind, consciousness, and value.
  • B. The Question of Consciousness
    "The Question of Consciousness" is a chapter in the Dalai Lama’s book *The Universe in a Single Atom* that explores the nature of consciousness through dialogue between Buddhist philosophy and modern science.
  • C. Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
    "Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist" is a book by neuroscientist Christof Koch that blends personal memoir with a scientific exploration of the neural basis of conscious experience.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain
    Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain is a foundational book that integrates neuroscience and philosophy to explore how brain science can inform and reshape our understanding 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_69d8278ed42c8190b9f882dcce611347 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de883bf71c8190a9a092a025cf98f0 completed April 14, 2026, 6:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd468e263c81909d7261bcfd949579 completed May 8, 2026, 2:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd4811e2808190b559d8348079ae8f completed May 8, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd48d827488190b4a494d4da64ba51 completed May 8, 2026, 2:22 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:13 a.m.