Triple

T17113420

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Ralph McInerny	`E415280`	entity
Predicate	notableWork	`P4`	FINISHED
Object	A First Glance at St. Thomas Aquinas A First Glance at St. Thomas Aquinas is an introductory book by philosopher Ralph McInerny that presents the life, thought, and key philosophical and theological ideas of Thomas Aquinas in an accessible way.	`E1253665`	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: A First Glance at St. Thomas Aquinas | Statement: [Ralph McInerny, notableWork, A First Glance at St. Thomas Aquinas]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: A First Glance at St. Thomas Aquinas
Context triple: [Ralph McInerny, notableWork, A First Glance at St. 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. 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.
C. Ethica Thomistica
Ethica Thomistica is a philosophical work by Ralph McInerny that offers a clear, accessible exposition and defense of Thomas Aquinas’s moral theory.
D. 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.
E. Aquinas and Analogy
Aquinas and Analogy is a philosophical work by Ralph McInerny that examines Thomas Aquinas’s doctrine of analogical language about God and its significance for metaphysics and theology.
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: A First Glance at St. Thomas Aquinas
Triple: [Ralph McInerny, notableWork, A First Glance at St. Thomas Aquinas]

Generated description

A First Glance at St. Thomas Aquinas is an introductory book by philosopher Ralph McInerny that presents the life, thought, and key philosophical and theological ideas of Thomas Aquinas in an accessible way.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: A First Glance at St. Thomas Aquinas
Target entity description: A First Glance at St. Thomas Aquinas is an introductory book by philosopher Ralph McInerny that presents the life, thought, and key philosophical and theological ideas of Thomas Aquinas in an accessible way.

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. 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.
C. Ethica Thomistica
Ethica Thomistica is a philosophical work by Ralph McInerny that offers a clear, accessible exposition and defense of Thomas Aquinas’s moral theory.
D. 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.
E. Aquinas and Analogy
Aquinas and Analogy is a philosophical work by Ralph McInerny that examines Thomas Aquinas’s doctrine of analogical language about God and its significance for metaphysics and theology.
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_69d886d090cc8190a39cb94992586905`	completed	April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69e3e8033840819083e9a506e48c31b4`	completed	April 18, 2026, 8:22 p.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_6a01482766508190b2af157bf039000d`	completed	May 11, 2026, 3:08 a.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_6a0149940ec88190bb9c1d9f37a06a69`	completed	May 11, 2026, 3:14 a.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_6a014a20bb2c8190bbae3009783efc00`	completed	May 11, 2026, 3:16 a.m.

Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:35 a.m.