Triple

T17113422
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ralph McInerny E415280 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object 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.
E1251180 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: Aquinas and Analogy | Statement: [Ralph McInerny, notableWork, Aquinas and Analogy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aquinas and Analogy
Context triple: [Ralph McInerny, notableWork, Aquinas and Analogy]
  • 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. “Postscripts to ‘Anselm and Actuality’”
    “Postscripts to ‘Anselm and Actuality’” is a philosophical essay by Alvin Plantinga in which he further clarifies and responds to issues raised by his earlier work on Anselm’s ontological argument and the nature of actuality.
  • C. 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.
  • 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: 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.
  • 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: Aquinas and Analogy
Triple: [Ralph McInerny, notableWork, Aquinas and Analogy]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aquinas and Analogy
Target entity description: 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.
  • 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. “Postscripts to ‘Anselm and Actuality’”
    “Postscripts to ‘Anselm and Actuality’” is a philosophical essay by Alvin Plantinga in which he further clarifies and responds to issues raised by his earlier work on Anselm’s ontological argument and the nature of actuality.
  • C. 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.
  • 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: 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.
  • 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_6a013a062d7c81908fe8cdc9e4637168 completed May 11, 2026, 2:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a013a8e69388190b8d48d70a28e99bd completed May 11, 2026, 2:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a013b6824888190853cf36548507e1b completed May 11, 2026, 2:14 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:35 a.m.