Triple

T2241456
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Voltaire’s Bastards E49404 entity
Predicate subtitle P2765 FINISHED
Object The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
The Dictatorship of Reason in the West is the subtitle of John Ralston Saul’s book "Voltaire’s Bastards," which critiques how Western societies have elevated rationalism and technocratic thinking above ethics, common sense, and democratic values.
E247775 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 Dictatorship of Reason in the West | Statement: [Voltaire’s Bastards, subtitle, The Dictatorship of Reason in the West]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
Context triple: [Voltaire’s Bastards, subtitle, The Dictatorship of Reason in the West]
  • A. Reason and Revolution
    Reason and Revolution is a seminal 1941 philosophical work by Herbert Marcuse that critically interprets Hegel and traces the development of critical theory and modern social thought.
  • B. The Myth of the State
    The Myth of the State is a posthumously published philosophical work by Ernst Cassirer that analyzes the role of myth and symbolic thought in the rise of modern political ideologies and totalitarianism.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Dialectic of Enlightenment
    Dialectic of Enlightenment is a seminal 1947 philosophical work by Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer that critiques how Enlightenment rationality can lead to new forms of domination and barbarism in modern society.
  • E. The Great Political Superstition
    "The Great Political Superstition" is an essay by Herbert Spencer that critiques blind faith in governmental authority and challenges the belief that the state is inherently a force for good.
  • 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 Dictatorship of Reason in the West
Triple: [Voltaire’s Bastards, subtitle, The Dictatorship of Reason in the West]
Generated description
The Dictatorship of Reason in the West is the subtitle of John Ralston Saul’s book "Voltaire’s Bastards," which critiques how Western societies have elevated rationalism and technocratic thinking above ethics, common sense, and democratic values.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
Target entity description: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West is the subtitle of John Ralston Saul’s book "Voltaire’s Bastards," which critiques how Western societies have elevated rationalism and technocratic thinking above ethics, common sense, and democratic values.
  • A. Reason and Revolution
    Reason and Revolution is a seminal 1941 philosophical work by Herbert Marcuse that critically interprets Hegel and traces the development of critical theory and modern social thought.
  • B. The Myth of the State
    The Myth of the State is a posthumously published philosophical work by Ernst Cassirer that analyzes the role of myth and symbolic thought in the rise of modern political ideologies and totalitarianism.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Dialectic of Enlightenment
    Dialectic of Enlightenment is a seminal 1947 philosophical work by Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer that critiques how Enlightenment rationality can lead to new forms of domination and barbarism in modern society.
  • E. The Great Political Superstition
    "The Great Political Superstition" is an essay by Herbert Spencer that critiques blind faith in governmental authority and challenges the belief that the state is inherently a force for good.
  • 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_69a88aa979788190ad6500f1d8eee2fc completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc0be7fb4819081a5f9c46b616bdb completed March 7, 2026, 6:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae6b0eef98819083bede32490cba7e completed March 9, 2026, 6:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae6bbccdb08190a73fd20a110219d9 completed March 9, 2026, 6:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae6c3d07a08190a6221a33fd02f73e completed March 9, 2026, 6:44 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:47 p.m.