Triple
T23440632
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Thomas Merton |
E565388
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entity |
| Predicate | influencedBy |
P9
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FINISHED |
| Object | Benedict of Nursia |
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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: Benedict of Nursia | Statement: [Thomas Merton, influencedBy, Benedict of Nursia]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benedict of Nursia Context triple: [Thomas Merton, influencedBy, Benedict of Nursia]
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A.
Saint Benedict of Nursia
chosen
Saint Benedict of Nursia was a 6th-century Christian monk and founder of Western monasticism, best known for composing the influential Rule of Saint Benedict that shaped Benedictine and later monastic life.
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B.
Benedict of Auxerre
Benedict of Auxerre was a medieval monk and churchman best known for establishing Selby Abbey in North Yorkshire, England.
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C.
Columbanus of Bobbio
Columbanus of Bobbio was a prominent Irish missionary monk and founder of several monasteries in continental Europe, known for his strict monastic rule and major influence on early medieval Christian monasticism.
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D.
Abbot of Monte Cassino
The Abbot of Monte Cassino is the head of the historic Benedictine monastery at Monte Cassino, overseeing its religious community, spiritual life, and administrative affairs.
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E.
Saint Norbert of Xanten
Saint Norbert of Xanten was a 12th-century German church reformer, founder of the Premonstratensian (Norbertine) order, and later Archbishop of Magdeburg, known for his asceticism and efforts to renew clerical life.
- 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_69e24584f9488190bb32730bd2ce023e |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f1a5df28288190936f16b017a20bc0 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 6:31 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 5:50 p.m.