Triple

T16637329
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mind E404242 entity
Predicate hasNotablePaper P61425 FINISHED
Object “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” by Thomas Nagel E421692 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” by Thomas Nagel | Statement: [Mind, hasNotablePaper, “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” by Thomas Nagel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” by Thomas Nagel
Context triple: [Mind, hasNotablePaper, “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” by Thomas Nagel]
  • A. essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"
    "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" is a landmark philosophical essay by Thomas Nagel that argues subjective conscious experience cannot be fully explained by objective physical theories, using the example of a bat’s echolocation to illustrate the limits of reductionism.
  • B. "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" chosen
    "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" is a seminal 1974 philosophical essay by Thomas Nagel that argues the subjective character of conscious experience cannot be fully captured by objective, physicalist accounts of the mind.
  • C. “A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality”
    “A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality” is a philosophical work by John Perry that explores questions about what makes a person the same over time and whether personal identity can persist after death.
  • D. The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World
    The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World is a philosophical book by Owen Flanagan that explores how meaning, morality, and purpose can arise within a purely naturalistic, scientifically understood universe.
  • E. Through Our Eyes Only? The Search for Animal Consciousness
    "Through Our Eyes Only? The Search for Animal Consciousness" is a book that explores the scientific and philosophical questions surrounding whether and how non-human animals experience conscious awareness.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69d8838a41f08190b0c3f79c47df5078 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e378ea4b848190bf7c95dad8a855f0 completed April 18, 2026, 12:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a007dc28df48190b01c1328df24df60 completed May 10, 2026, 12:44 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:18 a.m.