Triple

T1489072
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William James E29534 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking is William James’s influential 1907 philosophical work that systematically presents and popularizes the doctrine of pragmatism as a method for clarifying ideas and resolving metaphysical disputes.
E170999 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: Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking | Statement: [William James, notableWork, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
Context triple: [William James, notableWork, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking]
  • A. “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”
    “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” is a landmark philosophical essay that challenges the analytic–synthetic distinction and reductionism, reshaping 20th-century debates in epistemology and the philosophy of language.
  • B. A Defence of Common Sense
    A Defence of Common Sense is a seminal philosophical essay by G. E. Moore that argues for the certainty of everyday common-sense beliefs against skeptical and idealist challenges.
  • C. The Logic of Practice
    The Logic of Practice is a major sociological work by Pierre Bourdieu that develops his influential theories of habitus, field, and symbolic power to explain how social practices are structured and reproduced.
  • D. Course of Positive Philosophy
    Course of Positive Philosophy is Auguste Comte’s foundational multi-volume work that systematically outlines positivism and the hierarchy of the sciences, laying the groundwork for modern sociology.
  • E. The Refutation of Idealism
    The Refutation of Idealism is a 1903 philosophical essay by G. E. Moore that famously challenges the doctrine that reality is fundamentally mental, helping to launch the tradition of analytic philosophy.
  • 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: Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
Triple: [William James, notableWork, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking]
Generated description
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking is William James’s influential 1907 philosophical work that systematically presents and popularizes the doctrine of pragmatism as a method for clarifying ideas and resolving metaphysical disputes.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
Target entity description: Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking is William James’s influential 1907 philosophical work that systematically presents and popularizes the doctrine of pragmatism as a method for clarifying ideas and resolving metaphysical disputes.
  • A. “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”
    “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” is a landmark philosophical essay that challenges the analytic–synthetic distinction and reductionism, reshaping 20th-century debates in epistemology and the philosophy of language.
  • B. A Defence of Common Sense
    A Defence of Common Sense is a seminal philosophical essay by G. E. Moore that argues for the certainty of everyday common-sense beliefs against skeptical and idealist challenges.
  • C. The Logic of Practice
    The Logic of Practice is a major sociological work by Pierre Bourdieu that develops his influential theories of habitus, field, and symbolic power to explain how social practices are structured and reproduced.
  • D. Course of Positive Philosophy
    Course of Positive Philosophy is Auguste Comte’s foundational multi-volume work that systematically outlines positivism and the hierarchy of the sciences, laying the groundwork for modern sociology.
  • E. The Refutation of Idealism
    The Refutation of Idealism is a 1903 philosophical essay by G. E. Moore that famously challenges the doctrine that reality is fundamentally mental, helping to launch the tradition of analytic philosophy.
  • 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_69a498da82e08190ba833330d05f380f completed March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c6a6095481909e9d406ac9a41828 completed March 1, 2026, 11:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad1ca7804c8190b6818ff344908028 completed March 8, 2026, 6:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad1cfdd8788190b3c9f6e0d49ec350 completed March 8, 2026, 6:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad1d75f4f8819090c397a4b2d3f839 completed March 8, 2026, 6:55 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:12 p.m.