Triple

T16997720
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis E412359 entity
Predicate relatedConcept P37 FINISHED
Object Nagelian reduction
Nagelian reduction is a philosophical model of scientific reduction that explains how one scientific theory can be systematically derived from and thus reduced to another, typically more fundamental, theory via logical deduction plus bridge laws connecting their vocabularies.
E1245122 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: Nagelian reduction | Statement: [The Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis, relatedConcept, Nagelian reduction]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nagelian reduction
Context triple: [The Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis, relatedConcept, Nagelian reduction]
  • A. Ontological Reduction and the World of Numbers
    "Ontological Reduction and the World of Numbers" is a philosophical essay by W.V.O. Quine that examines how mathematical entities, particularly numbers, can be understood and justified within a naturalistic and ontologically parsimonious framework.
  • B. Aspects of Scientific Explanation
    Aspects of Scientific Explanation is a seminal work in the philosophy of science that systematically analyzes the structure and logic of scientific explanations, especially through the deductive-nomological model.
  • C. Quine’s ontology
    Quine’s ontology is the philosophical framework developed by W.V.O. Quine that determines what kinds of entities exist according to our best scientific theories, famously summarized by the criterion “to be is to be the value of a bound variable.”
  • D. The Problem of Realization
    The Problem of Realization is a section of Rosa Luxemburg’s Marxist economic work that examines how capitalist production can be converted into money through sales, focusing on the difficulties of realizing surplus value in capitalist markets.
  • E. Epistemology Naturalized
    Epistemology Naturalized is W.V.O. Quine’s influential proposal to reconceive traditional epistemology as a branch of empirical psychology, focusing on how humans actually form beliefs rather than on a priori justification.
  • 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: Nagelian reduction
Triple: [The Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis, relatedConcept, Nagelian reduction]
Generated description
Nagelian reduction is a philosophical model of scientific reduction that explains how one scientific theory can be systematically derived from and thus reduced to another, typically more fundamental, theory via logical deduction plus bridge laws connecting their vocabularies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nagelian reduction
Target entity description: Nagelian reduction is a philosophical model of scientific reduction that explains how one scientific theory can be systematically derived from and thus reduced to another, typically more fundamental, theory via logical deduction plus bridge laws connecting their vocabularies.
  • A. Ontological Reduction and the World of Numbers
    "Ontological Reduction and the World of Numbers" is a philosophical essay by W.V.O. Quine that examines how mathematical entities, particularly numbers, can be understood and justified within a naturalistic and ontologically parsimonious framework.
  • B. Aspects of Scientific Explanation
    Aspects of Scientific Explanation is a seminal work in the philosophy of science that systematically analyzes the structure and logic of scientific explanations, especially through the deductive-nomological model.
  • C. Quine’s ontology
    Quine’s ontology is the philosophical framework developed by W.V.O. Quine that determines what kinds of entities exist according to our best scientific theories, famously summarized by the criterion “to be is to be the value of a bound variable.”
  • D. The Problem of Realization
    The Problem of Realization is a section of Rosa Luxemburg’s Marxist economic work that examines how capitalist production can be converted into money through sales, focusing on the difficulties of realizing surplus value in capitalist markets.
  • E. Epistemology Naturalized
    Epistemology Naturalized is W.V.O. Quine’s influential proposal to reconceive traditional epistemology as a branch of empirical psychology, focusing on how humans actually form beliefs rather than on a priori justification.
  • 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_69d886cb581c8190ab05f4b429c9cd85 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3d37c16d081908ea5e25c992cb254 completed April 18, 2026, 6:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00dc18e6988190b42b3d251cf00b98 completed May 10, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0114d68c8481909111bfab22882bb2 completed May 10, 2026, 11:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0118ba68408190b242154c40461f21 completed May 10, 2026, 11:46 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.