Triple

T1723174
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Charles Taylor E37437 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object A Secular Age
A Secular Age is a landmark philosophical and historical study by Charles Taylor that examines how Western societies moved from a world where belief in God was virtually unquestioned to one in which religious faith is just one option among many.
E195092 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 Secular Age | Statement: [Charles Taylor, notableWork, A Secular Age]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Secular Age
Context triple: [Charles Taylor, notableWork, A Secular Age]
  • A. God Is Not Great
    God Is Not Great is a polemical book by Christopher Hitchens that critiques religion and argues for secularism and rational inquiry.
  • B. On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers
    On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers is a foundational 1799 work of modern Protestant theology in which Friedrich Schleiermacher defends the essence of religious experience to skeptical, educated audiences of his time.
  • C. A History of God
    A History of God is a widely acclaimed book by religious historian Karen Armstrong that traces the development and transformations of the concept of God in the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.
  • D. The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism
    The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism is a landmark mid-20th-century evangelical book by theologian Carl F. H. Henry that critiques fundamentalism’s withdrawal from social and cultural engagement and calls for a more robust public witness.
  • E. The Crooked Timber of Humanity
    The Crooked Timber of Humanity is a collection of essays by philosopher Isaiah Berlin exploring pluralism, the limits of human perfectibility, and the complexities of political and moral life.
  • 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 Secular Age
Triple: [Charles Taylor, notableWork, A Secular Age]
Generated description
A Secular Age is a landmark philosophical and historical study by Charles Taylor that examines how Western societies moved from a world where belief in God was virtually unquestioned to one in which religious faith is just one option among many.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Secular Age
Target entity description: A Secular Age is a landmark philosophical and historical study by Charles Taylor that examines how Western societies moved from a world where belief in God was virtually unquestioned to one in which religious faith is just one option among many.
  • A. God Is Not Great
    God Is Not Great is a polemical book by Christopher Hitchens that critiques religion and argues for secularism and rational inquiry.
  • B. On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers
    On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers is a foundational 1799 work of modern Protestant theology in which Friedrich Schleiermacher defends the essence of religious experience to skeptical, educated audiences of his time.
  • C. A History of God
    A History of God is a widely acclaimed book by religious historian Karen Armstrong that traces the development and transformations of the concept of God in the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.
  • D. The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism
    The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism is a landmark mid-20th-century evangelical book by theologian Carl F. H. Henry that critiques fundamentalism’s withdrawal from social and cultural engagement and calls for a more robust public witness.
  • E. The Crooked Timber of Humanity
    The Crooked Timber of Humanity is a collection of essays by philosopher Isaiah Berlin exploring pluralism, the limits of human perfectibility, and the complexities of political and moral life.
  • 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_69a8861acab88190bb43cde203429399 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa63587ce08190a6a9e6dae11a708c completed March 6, 2026, 5:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad8aefefc881908acd48eebc67c6ec completed March 8, 2026, 2:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad979ce880819089daecbc8455ec84 completed March 8, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad9ba92a848190918a8748fb65348a completed March 8, 2026, 3:54 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:30 p.m.