Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject argument from degrees of perfection E412954 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object Fourth Way of Thomas Aquinas
The Fourth Way of Thomas Aquinas is a philosophical argument for the existence of God that infers a supreme, maximally perfect being from the varying degrees of goodness, truth, and nobility observed in the world.
E1247148 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: Fourth Way of Thomas Aquinas | Statement: [argument from degrees of perfection, alsoKnownAs, Fourth Way of Thomas Aquinas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fourth Way of Thomas Aquinas
Context triple: [argument from degrees of perfection, alsoKnownAs, Fourth Way of Thomas Aquinas]
  • A. The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas
    The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas is a major 20th-century study by Étienne Gilson that systematically presents and interprets the philosophical thought of Thomas Aquinas within its Christian theological context.
  • B. Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory
    Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory is a major philosophical study by John Finnis that systematically interprets and defends Thomas Aquinas’s views on ethics, politics, and law within the framework of contemporary natural law theory.
  • C. Thomism
    Thomism is the philosophical and theological school based on the thought of Thomas Aquinas, characterized by its synthesis of Aristotelian philosophy with Christian doctrine.
  • D. Commentaries on Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae
    Commentaries on Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae are influential theological and philosophical lectures by Francisco de Vitoria that helped shape early modern scholasticism and Catholic thought.
  • E. Neo-scholasticism
    Neo-scholasticism is a modern revival and systematic development of medieval scholastic philosophy and theology, especially associated with the renewed study of Thomas Aquinas in the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • 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: Fourth Way of Thomas Aquinas
Triple: [argument from degrees of perfection, alsoKnownAs, Fourth Way of Thomas Aquinas]
Generated description
The Fourth Way of Thomas Aquinas is a philosophical argument for the existence of God that infers a supreme, maximally perfect being from the varying degrees of goodness, truth, and nobility observed in the world.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fourth Way of Thomas Aquinas
Target entity description: The Fourth Way of Thomas Aquinas is a philosophical argument for the existence of God that infers a supreme, maximally perfect being from the varying degrees of goodness, truth, and nobility observed in the world.
  • A. The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas
    The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas is a major 20th-century study by Étienne Gilson that systematically presents and interprets the philosophical thought of Thomas Aquinas within its Christian theological context.
  • B. Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory
    Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory is a major philosophical study by John Finnis that systematically interprets and defends Thomas Aquinas’s views on ethics, politics, and law within the framework of contemporary natural law theory.
  • C. Thomism
    Thomism is the philosophical and theological school based on the thought of Thomas Aquinas, characterized by its synthesis of Aristotelian philosophy with Christian doctrine.
  • D. Commentaries on Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae
    Commentaries on Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae are influential theological and philosophical lectures by Francisco de Vitoria that helped shape early modern scholasticism and Catholic thought.
  • E. Neo-scholasticism
    Neo-scholasticism is a modern revival and systematic development of medieval scholastic philosophy and theology, especially associated with the renewed study of Thomas Aquinas in the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • 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_69d886cc4170819093deddc7b8b4b6a7 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3d5d0dc848190a267f8542dfb86a6 completed April 18, 2026, 7:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a011b4f9dfc819085639edb5cda1cca completed May 10, 2026, 11:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a011cc1afc48190b83e3203407c1d7f completed May 11, 2026, 12:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a011d67c82c8190b737406e8952eb2b completed May 11, 2026, 12:05 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:33 a.m.