Triple

T3192714
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hilary Putnam E66859 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Reason, Truth and History
Reason, Truth and History is a 1981 philosophical work by Hilary Putnam that critically examines realism, reference, and the nature of truth in analytic philosophy.
E335391 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: Reason, Truth and History | Statement: [Hilary Putnam, notableWork, Reason, Truth and History]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reason, Truth and History
Context triple: [Hilary Putnam, notableWork, Reason, Truth and History]
  • A. Lectures on the Philosophy of History
    Lectures on the Philosophy of History is a posthumously published collection of G. W. F. Hegel’s university lectures that presents his influential view of world history as a rational process expressing the development of human freedom.
  • B. On the History of Modern Philosophy
    On the History of Modern Philosophy is a series of late lectures by German idealist philosopher F. W. J. Schelling that critically surveys and interprets the development of modern philosophy from Descartes onward.
  • C. The Poverty of Historicism
    The Poverty of Historicism is a philosophical work by Karl Popper that critiques the idea that history unfolds according to discoverable laws and argues against using such supposed laws to predict or control social development.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Reason, Truth and History
Triple: [Hilary Putnam, notableWork, Reason, Truth and History]
Generated description
Reason, Truth and History is a 1981 philosophical work by Hilary Putnam that critically examines realism, reference, and the nature of truth in analytic philosophy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reason, Truth and History
Target entity description: Reason, Truth and History is a 1981 philosophical work by Hilary Putnam that critically examines realism, reference, and the nature of truth in analytic philosophy.
  • A. Lectures on the Philosophy of History
    Lectures on the Philosophy of History is a posthumously published collection of G. W. F. Hegel’s university lectures that presents his influential view of world history as a rational process expressing the development of human freedom.
  • B. On the History of Modern Philosophy
    On the History of Modern Philosophy is a series of late lectures by German idealist philosopher F. W. J. Schelling that critically surveys and interprets the development of modern philosophy from Descartes onward.
  • C. The Poverty of Historicism
    The Poverty of Historicism is a philosophical work by Karl Popper that critiques the idea that history unfolds according to discoverable laws and argues against using such supposed laws to predict or control social development.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69ad8588ba18819086a10951c32ecb80 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada713bf0c81908f3143f45f63a5ad completed March 8, 2026, 4:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b24ba8a8b48190824dac45e37217cc completed March 12, 2026, 5:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b24d13ef908190b7b54d653e4d1ea4 completed March 12, 2026, 5:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b24db9af3881909d3d89ad985356c6 completed March 12, 2026, 5:23 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:07 p.m.