Triple

T14675855
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Allan Bloom E344644 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Closing of the American Mind
The Closing of the American Mind is a 1987 philosophical critique of contemporary American higher education and its embrace of relativism, written by political philosopher Allan Bloom.
E1113867 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 Closing of the American Mind | Statement: [Allan Bloom, notableWork, The Closing of the American Mind]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Closing of the American Mind
Context triple: [Allan Bloom, notableWork, The Closing of the American Mind]
  • A. The Conservative Mind
    The Conservative Mind is a seminal 1953 book by Russell Kirk that traces the intellectual history and core principles of Anglo-American conservatism.
  • B. One-Dimensional Man
    One-Dimensional Man is a 1964 philosophical critique by Herbert Marcuse that analyzes how advanced industrial societies create conformist, "one-dimensional" thinking that undermines genuine freedom and critical consciousness.
  • C. The Conscience of a Liberal
    The Conscience of a Liberal is a political and economic book by Paul Krugman that argues for a robust welfare state, progressive taxation, and policies to reduce inequality in the United States.
  • D. In the Twilight of Western Thought
    In the Twilight of Western Thought is a philosophical work by Herman Dooyeweerd that critically analyzes the foundations and limitations of Western rationalist and humanist thought from a Christian philosophical perspective.
  • E. Farewell to Reason
    Farewell to Reason is a philosophical work by Paul Feyerabend that critiques rationalism and defends epistemological pluralism in science and society.
  • 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 Closing of the American Mind
Triple: [Allan Bloom, notableWork, The Closing of the American Mind]
Generated description
The Closing of the American Mind is a 1987 philosophical critique of contemporary American higher education and its embrace of relativism, written by political philosopher Allan Bloom.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Closing of the American Mind
Target entity description: The Closing of the American Mind is a 1987 philosophical critique of contemporary American higher education and its embrace of relativism, written by political philosopher Allan Bloom.
  • A. The Conservative Mind
    The Conservative Mind is a seminal 1953 book by Russell Kirk that traces the intellectual history and core principles of Anglo-American conservatism.
  • B. One-Dimensional Man
    One-Dimensional Man is a 1964 philosophical critique by Herbert Marcuse that analyzes how advanced industrial societies create conformist, "one-dimensional" thinking that undermines genuine freedom and critical consciousness.
  • C. The Conscience of a Liberal
    The Conscience of a Liberal is a political and economic book by Paul Krugman that argues for a robust welfare state, progressive taxation, and policies to reduce inequality in the United States.
  • D. In the Twilight of Western Thought
    In the Twilight of Western Thought is a philosophical work by Herman Dooyeweerd that critically analyzes the foundations and limitations of Western rationalist and humanist thought from a Christian philosophical perspective.
  • E. Farewell to Reason
    Farewell to Reason is a philosophical work by Paul Feyerabend that critiques rationalism and defends epistemological pluralism in science and society.
  • 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_69d822e283fc8190a0e4c235cf880052 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb5666e648190b5faa07076f497b8 completed April 14, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fde17c24e0819089dd9606298f5ac9 completed May 8, 2026, 1:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fde6353dec8190b8729d61e7a2a649 completed May 8, 2026, 1:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fde72d93788190bd08326c3d2fea48 completed May 8, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:27 a.m.