Triple

T17276458
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alexander Bain E419403 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Senses and the Intellect
The Senses and the Intellect is an influential 1855 philosophical and psychological treatise by Alexander Bain that systematically analyzes human perception and mental processes within an associationist framework.
E1260770 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: The Senses and the Intellect | Statement: [Alexander Bain, notableWork, The Senses and the Intellect]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Senses and the Intellect
Context triple: [Alexander Bain, notableWork, The Senses and the Intellect]
  • A. Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect
    Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect is an unfinished philosophical work by Baruch Spinoza that outlines a method for improving the mind to attain true knowledge and intellectual perfection.
  • B. On the Senses
    On the Senses is an ancient philosophical treatise by Theophrastus that examines the nature and functioning of human perception and the five senses.
  • C. Rules for the Direction of the Mind
    Rules for the Direction of the Mind is an unfinished philosophical and methodological treatise by René Descartes that outlines his early ideas on scientific method and rational inquiry.
  • D. The Analysis of Sensations
    The Analysis of Sensations is Ernst Mach’s influential philosophical and scientific treatise that examines perception and experience to argue for an empiricist, anti-metaphysical view of the physical world.
  • E. Union with the Active Intellect
    Union with the Active Intellect is a medieval philosophical-mystical concept, especially in Jewish and Islamic thought, describing the perfected human intellect’s ultimate conjunction with a transcendent, universal intellect as the highest form of knowledge and spiritual attainment.
  • 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: The Senses and the Intellect
Triple: [Alexander Bain, notableWork, The Senses and the Intellect]
Generated description
The Senses and the Intellect is an influential 1855 philosophical and psychological treatise by Alexander Bain that systematically analyzes human perception and mental processes within an associationist framework.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Senses and the Intellect
Target entity description: The Senses and the Intellect is an influential 1855 philosophical and psychological treatise by Alexander Bain that systematically analyzes human perception and mental processes within an associationist framework.
  • A. Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect
    Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect is an unfinished philosophical work by Baruch Spinoza that outlines a method for improving the mind to attain true knowledge and intellectual perfection.
  • B. On the Senses
    On the Senses is an ancient philosophical treatise by Theophrastus that examines the nature and functioning of human perception and the five senses.
  • C. Rules for the Direction of the Mind
    Rules for the Direction of the Mind is an unfinished philosophical and methodological treatise by René Descartes that outlines his early ideas on scientific method and rational inquiry.
  • D. The Analysis of Sensations
    The Analysis of Sensations is Ernst Mach’s influential philosophical and scientific treatise that examines perception and experience to argue for an empiricist, anti-metaphysical view of the physical world.
  • E. Union with the Active Intellect
    Union with the Active Intellect is a medieval philosophical-mystical concept, especially in Jewish and Islamic thought, describing the perfected human intellect’s ultimate conjunction with a transcendent, universal intellect as the highest form of knowledge and spiritual attainment.
  • 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_69d886da626481908a14ce7830329a35 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4332625c48190a25bf51543d797c3 completed April 19, 2026, 1:43 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01794f6cf481909d76e3d61f9888c5 completed May 11, 2026, 6:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a017b5abdc481909832a6e46d21b34b completed May 11, 2026, 6:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a017bcf8a6081908922f5ef2673abae completed May 11, 2026, 6:48 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:40 a.m.