Triple

T1651267
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Neil M. Gorsuch E35696 entity
Predicate doctoralAdvisor P167 FINISHED
Object John Finnis
John Finnis is a prominent legal philosopher best known for his work on natural law theory and his influential book "Natural Law and Natural Rights."
E185830 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: John Finnis | Statement: [Neil M. Gorsuch, doctoralAdvisor, John Finnis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Finnis
Context triple: [Neil M. Gorsuch, doctoralAdvisor, John Finnis]
  • A. John Austin
    John Austin was a 19th-century English legal theorist best known for developing the theory of legal positivism, which distinguishes law as it is from law as it ought to be.
  • B. Bernard Williams
    Bernard Williams was a prominent 20th-century British moral philosopher known for his critiques of utilitarianism and moral theory, his emphasis on the complexity of ethical life, and his influential work on integrity, moral luck, and the history of philosophy.
  • C. Stanley Hauerwas
    Stanley Hauerwas is an influential American theologian and ethicist known for his work on virtue ethics, the role of the church as an alternative community, and the critique of liberalism within Christian moral theology.
  • D. John Harris
    John Harris is a fictional character known primarily as the husband of Bernadine Harris in the story.
  • E. Ronald Dworkin
    Ronald Dworkin was a prominent American legal and political philosopher known for his theory of law as integrity and his influential work on rights, equality, and constitutional interpretation.
  • 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: John Finnis
Triple: [Neil M. Gorsuch, doctoralAdvisor, John Finnis]
Generated description
John Finnis is a prominent legal philosopher best known for his work on natural law theory and his influential book "Natural Law and Natural Rights."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Finnis
Target entity description: John Finnis is a prominent legal philosopher best known for his work on natural law theory and his influential book "Natural Law and Natural Rights."
  • A. John Austin
    John Austin was a 19th-century English legal theorist best known for developing the theory of legal positivism, which distinguishes law as it is from law as it ought to be.
  • B. Bernard Williams
    Bernard Williams was a prominent 20th-century British moral philosopher known for his critiques of utilitarianism and moral theory, his emphasis on the complexity of ethical life, and his influential work on integrity, moral luck, and the history of philosophy.
  • C. Stanley Hauerwas
    Stanley Hauerwas is an influential American theologian and ethicist known for his work on virtue ethics, the role of the church as an alternative community, and the critique of liberalism within Christian moral theology.
  • D. John Harris
    John Harris is a fictional character known primarily as the husband of Bernadine Harris in the story.
  • E. Ronald Dworkin
    Ronald Dworkin was a prominent American legal and political philosopher known for his theory of law as integrity and his influential work on rights, equality, and constitutional interpretation.
  • 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_69a8860568888190a32cd9f70acbba42 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a90a67c0308190a502fd9c6c0769bc completed March 5, 2026, 4:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad60a996508190bc227400cb7713ac completed March 8, 2026, 11:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad61323b308190b883c4bf2c3ca1bf completed March 8, 2026, 11:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad622d695481909351a9c80f8d646f completed March 8, 2026, 11:49 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.