Triple
T18996738
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition |
E464833
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entity |
| Predicate | mainSubject |
P3
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FINISHED |
| Object | Thomas Hobbes |
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NE NERFINISHED |
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: Thomas Hobbes | Statement: [Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition, mainSubject, Thomas Hobbes]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Hobbes Context triple: [Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition, mainSubject, Thomas Hobbes]
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A.
Thomas Hobbes
chosen
Thomas Hobbes was a 17th-century English philosopher best known for his political theory of social contract and his seminal work "Leviathan," which argued for strong centralized authority to prevent societal chaos.
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B.
John Locke
John Locke was a 17th-century English philosopher whose ideas on natural rights, government by consent, and the social contract became foundational to modern liberal political thought.
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C.
Hobbes
Hobbes is the sardonic, philosophical stuffed tiger who comes to life in the imagination of a young boy in the comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes."
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D.
Samuel Pufendorf
Samuel Pufendorf was a 17th-century German jurist, political philosopher, and early theorist of natural law whose writings significantly shaped modern ideas about international law and the state.
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E.
Locke
Locke is a common English surname historically associated with occupations such as locksmithing and has been borne by notable figures including philosophers and politicians.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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_69d8dd01a56c81909694a128c66b21d7 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e5d6826464819080ff0e0ffa5cc25e |
completed | April 20, 2026, 7:32 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:01 p.m.