Triple

T2999036
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Michael Walzer E81140 entity
Predicate doctoralStudent P167 FINISHED
Object Michael Sandel
Michael Sandel is an American political philosopher and Harvard professor known for his influential critiques of liberalism and his popular course and book "Justice."
E321766 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: Michael Sandel | Statement: [Michael Walzer, doctoralStudent, Michael Sandel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Sandel
Context triple: [Michael Walzer, doctoralStudent, Michael Sandel]
  • A. Michael Walzer
    Michael Walzer is an American political theorist best known for his work on justice, war, and ethics, particularly in his influential book "Just and Unjust Wars."
  • B. John Rawls
    John Rawls was a 20th-century American political philosopher best known for his theory of justice as fairness, which profoundly shaped contemporary liberal political thought.
  • C. Robert Nozick
    Robert Nozick was an influential American political philosopher best known for his libertarian theory of the minimal state, especially articulated in his book "Anarchy, State, and Utopia."
  • D. Alasdair MacIntyre
    Alasdair MacIntyre is a Scottish-born moral and political philosopher best known for reviving Aristotelian virtue ethics and critiquing modern liberal individualism in works such as "After Virtue."
  • E. Bernard Williams
    Bernard Williams was a British film producer known for his work on notable movies such as "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" and other major studio productions.
  • 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: Michael Sandel
Triple: [Michael Walzer, doctoralStudent, Michael Sandel]
Generated description
Michael Sandel is an American political philosopher and Harvard professor known for his influential critiques of liberalism and his popular course and book "Justice."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Sandel
Target entity description: Michael Sandel is an American political philosopher and Harvard professor known for his influential critiques of liberalism and his popular course and book "Justice."
  • A. Michael Walzer
    Michael Walzer is an American political theorist best known for his work on justice, war, and ethics, particularly in his influential book "Just and Unjust Wars."
  • B. John Rawls
    John Rawls was a 20th-century American political philosopher best known for his theory of justice as fairness, which profoundly shaped contemporary liberal political thought.
  • C. Robert Nozick
    Robert Nozick was an influential American political philosopher best known for his libertarian theory of the minimal state, especially articulated in his book "Anarchy, State, and Utopia."
  • D. Alasdair MacIntyre
    Alasdair MacIntyre is a Scottish-born moral and political philosopher best known for reviving Aristotelian virtue ethics and critiquing modern liberal individualism in works such as "After Virtue."
  • E. Bernard Williams
    Bernard Williams was a prominent 20th-century British moral philosopher known for his critiques of utilitarianism and moral theory, his emphasis on the complexity of ethical life, and his influential work on integrity, moral luck, and the history of philosophy.
  • 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_69ad8b187fc8819085914d3c9ea3142d completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad99f766408190a5591efce8346bb9 completed March 8, 2026, 3:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b1dea057a48190a7911d8d6046dd3d completed March 11, 2026, 9:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1e6b8848481908871662d94f866c1 completed March 11, 2026, 10:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1e6fee8148190b9f241aa52198432 completed March 11, 2026, 10:04 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:59 p.m.