Triple
T16650336
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Max Black’s two identical spheres thought experiment |
E404585
|
entity |
| Predicate | describedIn |
P519
|
FINISHED |
| Object | “The Identity of Indiscernibles” |
E1226262
|
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: “The Identity of Indiscernibles” | Statement: [Max Black’s two identical spheres thought experiment, describedIn, “The Identity of Indiscernibles”]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “The Identity of Indiscernibles” Context triple: [Max Black’s two identical spheres thought experiment, describedIn, “The Identity of Indiscernibles”]
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A.
“The Identity of Indiscernibles”
chosen
“The Identity of Indiscernibles” is a famous philosophical paper by Max Black that challenges Leibniz’s principle that no two distinct entities can share all their properties.
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B.
“Identity and Predication”
“Identity and Predication” is a seminal philosophical work by Gareth Evans that examines the logic and metaphysics of identity, reference, and predicative structure in language.
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C.
"Facts and Propositions"
"Facts and Propositions" is a seminal 1927 philosophical paper by Frank P. Ramsey that helped lay the foundations of analytic philosophy by advancing an influential account of truth, belief, and the nature of propositions.
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D.
“The Non-Identity of a Material Thing and Its Matter”
“The Non-Identity of a Material Thing and Its Matter” is a philosophical paper by Kit Fine that argues for a metaphysical distinction between material objects and the matter that constitutes them.
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E.
“Personal Identity”
“Personal Identity” is a philosophical work by John Perry that explores the nature of selfhood and what it means for a person to persist over time.
- 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_69e37bf6cfc481909b183348c407e046 |
completed | April 18, 2026, 12:41 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a008a2f1da48190a1a01dbe25f8f0e9 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 1:37 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:18 a.m.