Triple

T16191887
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Avicenna E392959 entity
Predicate notableConcept P201 FINISHED
Object floatingManThoughtExperiment
The floating man thought experiment is Avicenna’s famous philosophical scenario used to argue for the soul’s innate self-awareness and immateriality, imagining a person created fully formed and suspended in air without any sensory input who is still aware of his own existence.
E1199218 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: floatingManThoughtExperiment | Statement: [Avicenna, notableConcept, floatingManThoughtExperiment]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: floatingManThoughtExperiment
Context triple: [Avicenna, notableConcept, floatingManThoughtExperiment]
  • A. Max Black’s two identical spheres thought experiment
    Max Black’s two identical spheres thought experiment is a philosophical scenario that challenges the principle that no two distinct objects can share all their properties by imagining a universe containing only two perfectly identical spheres.
  • B. Twin Earth thought experiment
    The Twin Earth thought experiment is a philosophical scenario devised by Hilary Putnam to challenge traditional notions of meaning and reference by imagining a planet identical to Earth except that the substance called “water” has a different chemical composition.
  • C. Seeing Myself: The New Science of Out-of-Body Experiences
    Seeing Myself: The New Science of Out-of-Body Experiences is a book by psychologist and consciousness researcher Susan Blackmore that explores the science, psychology, and personal phenomenology of out-of-body experiences.
  • D. Einstein's elevator
    Einstein's elevator is a famous thought experiment devised by Albert Einstein to illustrate the equivalence between gravitational and inertial effects, forming a key conceptual basis for general relativity.
  • E. Ganzfeld experiments
    Ganzfeld experiments are parapsychological studies that attempt to detect evidence of extrasensory perception by placing participants in a sensory-reduced environment and testing for above-chance information transfer.
  • 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: floatingManThoughtExperiment
Triple: [Avicenna, notableConcept, floatingManThoughtExperiment]
Generated description
The floating man thought experiment is Avicenna’s famous philosophical scenario used to argue for the soul’s innate self-awareness and immateriality, imagining a person created fully formed and suspended in air without any sensory input who is still aware of his own existence.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: floatingManThoughtExperiment
Target entity description: The floating man thought experiment is Avicenna’s famous philosophical scenario used to argue for the soul’s innate self-awareness and immateriality, imagining a person created fully formed and suspended in air without any sensory input who is still aware of his own existence.
  • A. Max Black’s two identical spheres thought experiment
    Max Black’s two identical spheres thought experiment is a philosophical scenario that challenges the principle that no two distinct objects can share all their properties by imagining a universe containing only two perfectly identical spheres.
  • B. Twin Earth thought experiment
    The Twin Earth thought experiment is a philosophical scenario devised by Hilary Putnam to challenge traditional notions of meaning and reference by imagining a planet identical to Earth except that the substance called “water” has a different chemical composition.
  • C. Seeing Myself: The New Science of Out-of-Body Experiences
    Seeing Myself: The New Science of Out-of-Body Experiences is a book by psychologist and consciousness researcher Susan Blackmore that explores the science, psychology, and personal phenomenology of out-of-body experiences.
  • D. Einstein's elevator
    Einstein's elevator is a famous thought experiment devised by Albert Einstein to illustrate the equivalence between gravitational and inertial effects, forming a key conceptual basis for general relativity.
  • E. Ganzfeld experiments
    Ganzfeld experiments are parapsychological studies that attempt to detect evidence of extrasensory perception by placing participants in a sensory-reduced environment and testing for above-chance information transfer.
  • 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_69d87f1e49ac8190a311b54d32990576 completed April 10, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e222d6975c8190a512a65d5b0021bb completed April 17, 2026, 12:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffff095504819096c36d6c5d131207 completed May 10, 2026, 3:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0002419cec81909e3cec70968b65a4 completed May 10, 2026, 3:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0002ad960c81909c308a12da9b65d6 completed May 10, 2026, 3:59 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:02 a.m.