Triple

T16247061
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Paul Churchland E394396 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object Eliminative materialist philosophers
Eliminative materialist philosophers are thinkers who argue that common-sense mental states like beliefs and desires do not actually exist and should be replaced by a more accurate neuroscientific account of the mind.
 E382802 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: Eliminative materialist philosophers | Statement: [Paul Churchland, influenced, Eliminative materialist philosophers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Eliminative materialist philosophers
Context triple: [Paul Churchland, influenced, Eliminative materialist philosophers]
  • A. Daniel Dennett
    Daniel Dennett is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist known for his influential work on consciousness, free will, and the philosophy of mind from a naturalistic, evolutionary perspective.
  • B. David Chalmers
    David Chalmers is an Australian philosopher best known for his work on the philosophy of mind and consciousness, particularly for formulating the "hard problem" of consciousness.
  • C. Ned Block
    Ned Block is an American philosopher of mind and cognitive scientist known for his influential work on consciousness, mental representation, and the philosophy of psychology.
  • D. Dennett
    Dennett is a surname most prominently associated with American birth control activist and sex education reformer Mary Ware Dennett.
  • E. J. J. C. Smart
    J. J. C. Smart was an influential Australian philosopher best known for his work in philosophy of mind, particularly his defense of the mind–brain identity theory, and in ethics and metaphysics.
  • 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: Eliminative materialist philosophers
Triple: [Paul Churchland, influenced, Eliminative materialist philosophers]
Generated description
Eliminative materialist philosophers are thinkers who argue that common-sense mental states like beliefs and desires do not actually exist and should be replaced by a more accurate neuroscientific account of the mind.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Eliminative materialist philosophers
Target entity description: Eliminative materialist philosophers are thinkers who argue that common-sense mental states like beliefs and desires do not actually exist and should be replaced by a more accurate neuroscientific account of the mind.
  • A. Daniel Dennett
    Daniel Dennett is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist known for his influential work on consciousness, free will, and the philosophy of mind from a naturalistic, evolutionary perspective.
  • B. David Chalmers
    David Chalmers is an Australian philosopher best known for his work on the philosophy of mind and consciousness, particularly for formulating the "hard problem" of consciousness.
  • C. Ned Block
    Ned Block is an American philosopher of mind and cognitive scientist known for his influential work on consciousness, mental representation, and the philosophy of psychology.
  • D. Dennett
    Dennett is a surname most prominently associated with American birth control activist and sex education reformer Mary Ware Dennett.
  • E. J. J. C. Smart chosen
    J. J. C. Smart was an influential Australian philosopher best known for his work in philosophy of mind, particularly his defense of the mind–brain identity theory, and in ethics and metaphysics.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d87f2171208190951025e526947816 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e245931074819096f38003da70f271 completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a000ee3bbc48190a56ce2807a9510f0 completed May 10, 2026, 4:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a000f9aecec819087cecb1edad6b710 completed May 10, 2026, 4:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0010462ba881909666051b2fc38d43 completed May 10, 2026, 4:57 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:04 a.m.