Triple

T16202985
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Metzinger E393250 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Ego Tunnel
The Ego Tunnel is a philosophical and neuroscientific book by Thomas Metzinger that explores how consciousness and the sense of self arise from brain processes and why the self is an illusion.
E1199647 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 Ego Tunnel | Statement: [Thomas Metzinger, notableWork, The Ego Tunnel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Ego Tunnel
Context triple: [Thomas Metzinger, notableWork, The Ego Tunnel]
  • A. Kinds of Minds
    Kinds of Minds is a philosophical work by Daniel Dennett that explores the nature and varieties of consciousness and intelligence across humans, animals, and machines.
  • B. The Tell-Tale Brain
    The Tell-Tale Brain is a popular neuroscience book by V. S. Ramachandran that explores how unusual brain disorders illuminate the neural basis of human perception, self, and consciousness.
  • C. I Am a Strange Loop
    I Am a Strange Loop is a philosophical and cognitive science book by Douglas Hofstadter that explores the nature of self, consciousness, and recursion through the concept of self-referential “strange loops.”
  • D. Consciousness Explained
    Consciousness Explained is a 1991 book by philosopher Daniel Dennett that presents a influential cognitive and philosophical theory of consciousness grounded in neuroscience and computational models.
  • E. A Mind That Found Itself
    A Mind That Found Itself is an influential 1908 autobiographical account by Clifford Whittingham Beers that exposed the abuses of mental institutions and helped launch the modern mental health reform movement.
  • 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 Ego Tunnel
Triple: [Thomas Metzinger, notableWork, The Ego Tunnel]
Generated description
The Ego Tunnel is a philosophical and neuroscientific book by Thomas Metzinger that explores how consciousness and the sense of self arise from brain processes and why the self is an illusion.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Ego Tunnel
Target entity description: The Ego Tunnel is a philosophical and neuroscientific book by Thomas Metzinger that explores how consciousness and the sense of self arise from brain processes and why the self is an illusion.
  • A. Kinds of Minds
    Kinds of Minds is a philosophical work by Daniel Dennett that explores the nature and varieties of consciousness and intelligence across humans, animals, and machines.
  • B. The Tell-Tale Brain
    The Tell-Tale Brain is a popular neuroscience book by V. S. Ramachandran that explores how unusual brain disorders illuminate the neural basis of human perception, self, and consciousness.
  • C. I Am a Strange Loop
    I Am a Strange Loop is a philosophical and cognitive science book by Douglas Hofstadter that explores the nature of self, consciousness, and recursion through the concept of self-referential “strange loops.”
  • D. Consciousness Explained
    Consciousness Explained is a 1991 book by philosopher Daniel Dennett that presents a influential cognitive and philosophical theory of consciousness grounded in neuroscience and computational models.
  • E. A Mind That Found Itself
    A Mind That Found Itself is an influential 1908 autobiographical account by Clifford Whittingham Beers that exposed the abuses of mental institutions and helped launch the modern mental health reform movement.
  • 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_69d87f1f5bd08190bd01cac0d5b9d2ef completed April 10, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e2270b84408190bfbf68f32bfc5b1a completed April 17, 2026, 12:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffff130bcc8190a965d90e123d2dd9 completed May 10, 2026, 3:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a000066aa8c819088014d3f03b0e8cc completed May 10, 2026, 3:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00012ec15c8190a09e1b37bc560f67 completed May 10, 2026, 3:53 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:03 a.m.