Triple

T17345807
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Nagel E421684 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Possibility of Altruism E421695 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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 Possibility of Altruism | Statement: [Thomas Nagel, notableWork, The Possibility of Altruism]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Possibility of Altruism
Context triple: [Thomas Nagel, notableWork, The Possibility of Altruism]
  • A. "The Possibility of Altruism" chosen
    "The Possibility of Altruism" is a philosophical work by Thomas Nagel that argues for the rational basis of genuinely altruistic motivation against egoistic theories of practical reason.
  • B. The Economics of Altruism
    The Economics of Altruism is a scholarly work by economist Stefano Zamagni that analyzes how altruistic behavior and ethical considerations can be incorporated into economic theory and practice.
  • C. A Natural History of Human Morality
    A Natural History of Human Morality is a book by primatologist and psychologist Michael Tomasello that explores the evolutionary and developmental origins of human moral behavior.
  • D. The Ethics of Social Life: Negative Beneficence
    "The Ethics of Social Life: Negative Beneficence" is a section of Herbert Spencer’s ethical treatise that examines moral duties to avoid harming others and to respect their well-being in social interactions.
  • E. On the Problem of Empathy
    "On the Problem of Empathy" is a seminal phenomenological work by Edith Stein that analyzes the nature of empathy as a fundamental way of experiencing and understanding other conscious beings.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69d889d520008190a26917a95bf1c2ea completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e43a286d34819080c5148c220fd5a1 completed April 19, 2026, 2:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0195546198819085804ec0b5b18040 completed May 11, 2026, 8:37 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:44 a.m.