Triple

T15785677
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Reference and Modality E382731 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object Ruth Barcan Marcus
Ruth Barcan Marcus was an American logician and philosopher best known for pioneering quantified modal logic and formulating the Barcan formulas, which profoundly influenced contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of language.
E1176574 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: Ruth Barcan Marcus | Statement: [Reference and Modality, influenced, Ruth Barcan Marcus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ruth Barcan Marcus
Context triple: [Reference and Modality, influenced, Ruth Barcan Marcus]
  • A. Philippa Foot
    Philippa Foot was a British analytic philosopher best known for her work in ethics, particularly on virtue ethics and the famous "trolley problem."
  • B. Susan Haack
    Susan Haack is a British-American philosopher known for her work in pragmatism, epistemology, and the philosophy of logic, particularly her development of "foundherentism" as a theory of justification.
  • C. Ruth Millikan
    Ruth Millikan is an American philosopher best known for her influential work in philosophy of mind, language, and biology, particularly her teleosemantic theory of mental content.
  • D. Sydney Shoemaker
    Sydney Shoemaker is an American philosopher renowned for his influential work in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, particularly on personal identity and the nature of properties.
  • E. Elizabeth Anscombe
    Elizabeth Anscombe was a prominent 20th-century analytic philosopher known for her influential work in ethics, philosophy of action, and her role in editing and interpreting Ludwig Wittgenstein’s writings.
  • 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: Ruth Barcan Marcus
Triple: [Reference and Modality, influenced, Ruth Barcan Marcus]
Generated description
Ruth Barcan Marcus was an American logician and philosopher best known for pioneering quantified modal logic and formulating the Barcan formulas, which profoundly influenced contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of language.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ruth Barcan Marcus
Target entity description: Ruth Barcan Marcus was an American logician and philosopher best known for pioneering quantified modal logic and formulating the Barcan formulas, which profoundly influenced contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of language.
  • A. Philippa Foot
    Philippa Foot was a British analytic philosopher best known for her work in ethics, particularly on virtue ethics and the famous "trolley problem."
  • B. Susan Haack
    Susan Haack is a British-American philosopher known for her work in pragmatism, epistemology, and the philosophy of logic, particularly her development of "foundherentism" as a theory of justification.
  • C. Ruth Millikan
    Ruth Millikan is an American philosopher best known for her influential work in philosophy of mind, language, and biology, particularly her teleosemantic theory of mental content.
  • D. Sydney Shoemaker
    Sydney Shoemaker is an American philosopher renowned for his influential work in metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, particularly on personal identity and the nature of properties.
  • E. Elizabeth Anscombe
    Elizabeth Anscombe was a prominent 20th-century analytic philosopher known for her influential work in ethics, philosophy of action, and her role in editing and interpreting Ludwig Wittgenstein’s writings.
  • 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_69d86da16e188190b89af699f1ed0bfe completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e0540380448190a025338f0e62e6d1 completed April 16, 2026, 3:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff90a4661481909d04bcb9f5043a6b completed May 9, 2026, 7:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff935867d08190955c2d665a761a5e completed May 9, 2026, 8:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff93fc19048190981d8e44ee5222f7 completed May 9, 2026, 8:07 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:48 a.m.