Triple

T16922756
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Thomson (archbishop of York) E410480 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought
An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought is a 19th-century logic textbook by William Thomson that systematically presents the fundamental principles governing correct reasoning.
E1241227 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: An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought | Statement: [William Thomson (archbishop of York), notableWork, An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought
Context triple: [William Thomson (archbishop of York), notableWork, An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought]
  • A. An Investigation of the Laws of Thought
    An Investigation of the Laws of Thought is George Boole’s foundational 1854 treatise that established Boolean algebra and helped lay the groundwork for modern mathematical logic and computer science.
  • B. On the Principles of Logic
    On the Principles of Logic is a philosophical work that systematically examines the foundations, structure, and methods of logical reasoning.
  • C. Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept
    Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept is Benedetto Croce’s major philosophical treatise in which he reconceives logic as a theory of pure concepts grounded in his idealist aesthetics and philosophy of spirit.
  • D. Postulates of Empirical Thought in General
    Postulates of Empirical Thought in General is a section of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason that lays out the conditions under which empirical judgments about existence, possibility, and necessity are valid.
  • E. The Logical Structure of the World
    The Logical Structure of the World is Rudolf Carnap’s seminal 1928 work in which he develops a rigorous, formal reconstruction of all scientific concepts from a phenomenalist basis, serving as a foundational text of logical positivism.
  • 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: An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought
Triple: [William Thomson (archbishop of York), notableWork, An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought]
Generated description
An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought is a 19th-century logic textbook by William Thomson that systematically presents the fundamental principles governing correct reasoning.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought
Target entity description: An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought is a 19th-century logic textbook by William Thomson that systematically presents the fundamental principles governing correct reasoning.
  • A. An Investigation of the Laws of Thought
    An Investigation of the Laws of Thought is George Boole’s foundational 1854 treatise that established Boolean algebra and helped lay the groundwork for modern mathematical logic and computer science.
  • B. On the Principles of Logic
    On the Principles of Logic is a philosophical work that systematically examines the foundations, structure, and methods of logical reasoning.
  • C. Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept
    Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept is Benedetto Croce’s major philosophical treatise in which he reconceives logic as a theory of pure concepts grounded in his idealist aesthetics and philosophy of spirit.
  • D. Postulates of Empirical Thought in General
    Postulates of Empirical Thought in General is a section of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason that lays out the conditions under which empirical judgments about existence, possibility, and necessity are valid.
  • E. The Logical Structure of the World
    The Logical Structure of the World is Rudolf Carnap’s seminal 1928 work in which he develops a rigorous, formal reconstruction of all scientific concepts from a phenomenalist basis, serving as a foundational text of logical positivism.
  • 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_69d886c7b1e481908c3766dfa8c13458 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3cdf06e8c81908028efef2faa6c6b completed April 18, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00cfd5e17481909fc4303fcc1342bf completed May 10, 2026, 6:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00d0a0852c8190991af93d50fa2216 completed May 10, 2026, 6:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00d14b83d88190b3dbc124d5b33029 completed May 10, 2026, 6:41 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:30 a.m.