Triple

T17671278
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Cloud of Unknowing (anonymous author) E440525 entity
Predicate wrote P2831 FINISHED
Object A Treatise of Discerning Spirits — NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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 Treatise of Discerning Spirits | Statement: [The Cloud of Unknowing (anonymous author), wrote, A Treatise of Discerning Spirits]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: A Treatise of Discerning Spirits
Context triple: [The Cloud of Unknowing (anonymous author), wrote, A Treatise of Discerning Spirits]
  • A. Rules for Discernment of Spirits
    Rules for Discernment of Spirits is a set of guidelines in Ignatian spirituality that helps individuals distinguish between influences that lead them toward or away from God in their interior life.
  • B. Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits
    Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits is a late 17th-century theological treatise addressing witchcraft and demonic influence, written in the context of the Salem witch trials.
  • C. A True & Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Yeers Between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits
    A True & Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Yeers Between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits is a 17th-century publication compiling the occult diaries and spirit communications of Elizabethan magus John Dee, documenting his attempts to converse with angels through scryer Edward Kelley.
  • D. Wonders of the Invisible World: Observations as Well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils
    Wonders of the Invisible World: Observations as Well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils is a 1693 work by Puritan minister Cotton Mather defending the Salem witch trials and expounding contemporary beliefs about witchcraft and demonic activity in New England.
  • E. The Spiritualist
    "The Spiritualist" is a 1948 film noir thriller about a fraudulent medium whose schemes entangle him with a wealthy widow and her troubled household.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: A Treatise of Discerning Spirits
Target entity description: A Treatise of Discerning Spirits is a late medieval Christian mystical work, traditionally linked to the author of The Cloud of Unknowing, that offers guidance on distinguishing genuine spiritual experiences from deception or illusion.
  • A. Rules for Discernment of Spirits
    Rules for Discernment of Spirits is a set of guidelines in Ignatian spirituality that helps individuals distinguish between influences that lead them toward or away from God in their interior life.
  • B. Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits
    Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits is a late 17th-century theological treatise addressing witchcraft and demonic influence, written in the context of the Salem witch trials.
  • C. A True & Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Yeers Between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits
    A True & Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Yeers Between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits is a 17th-century publication compiling the occult diaries and spirit communications of Elizabethan magus John Dee, documenting his attempts to converse with angels through scryer Edward Kelley.
  • D. Wonders of the Invisible World: Observations as Well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils
    Wonders of the Invisible World: Observations as Well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils is a 1693 work by Puritan minister Cotton Mather defending the Salem witch trials and expounding contemporary beliefs about witchcraft and demonic activity in New England.
  • E. The Spiritualist
    "The Spiritualist" is a 1948 film noir thriller about a fraudulent medium whose schemes entangle him with a wealthy widow and her troubled household.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 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_69d8b9e87e18819087104a44dc4dc5b1 completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e46f68a038819084828ff73bcf1fcc completed April 19, 2026, 6 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 9:59 a.m.