Triple

T3706323
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bernard Williams E80901 entity
Predicate coAuthor P398 FINISHED
Object J. J. C. Smart
J. J. C. Smart was an influential Australian philosopher best known for his work in philosophy of mind, particularly his defense of the mind–brain identity theory, and in ethics and metaphysics.
E382802 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: J. J. C. Smart | Statement: [Bernard Williams, coAuthor, J. J. C. Smart]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. J. C. Smart
Context triple: [Bernard Williams, coAuthor, J. J. C. Smart]
  • A. Roderick Chisholm
    Roderick Chisholm was a 20th-century American analytic philosopher known for his influential work in epistemology, metaphysics, and the theory of perception.
  • B. Hilary Putnam
    Hilary Putnam was a prominent 20th-century American philosopher known for his influential work in philosophy of mind, language, and science, including the development of functionalism and semantic externalism.
  • C. Donald Davidson
    Donald Davidson was a prominent 20th-century American philosopher known for his influential work in the philosophy of language, mind, and action, particularly his theories of radical interpretation and anomalous monism.
  • D. Wilfrid Sellars
    Wilfrid Sellars was a 20th-century American philosopher best known for his critiques of empiricism and foundationalism and for developing a systematic, scientifically informed account of knowledge and mind.
  • E. F. Frederick Ayer
    F. Frederick Ayer was an architect known for designing the historic Boston Garden arena in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • 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: J. J. C. Smart
Triple: [Bernard Williams, coAuthor, J. J. C. Smart]
Generated description
J. J. C. Smart was an influential Australian philosopher best known for his work in philosophy of mind, particularly his defense of the mind–brain identity theory, and in ethics and metaphysics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. J. C. Smart
Target entity description: J. J. C. Smart was an influential Australian philosopher best known for his work in philosophy of mind, particularly his defense of the mind–brain identity theory, and in ethics and metaphysics.
  • A. Roderick Chisholm
    Roderick Chisholm was a 20th-century American analytic philosopher known for his influential work in epistemology, metaphysics, and the theory of perception.
  • B. Hilary Putnam
    Hilary Putnam was a prominent 20th-century American philosopher known for his influential work in philosophy of mind, language, and science, including the development of functionalism and semantic externalism.
  • C. Donald Davidson
    Donald Davidson was a prominent 20th-century American philosopher known for his influential work in the philosophy of language, mind, and action, particularly his theories of radical interpretation and anomalous monism.
  • D. Wilfrid Sellars
    Wilfrid Sellars was a 20th-century American philosopher best known for his critiques of empiricism and foundationalism and for developing a systematic, scientifically informed account of knowledge and mind.
  • E. F. Frederick Ayer
    F. Frederick Ayer was an architect known for designing the historic Boston Garden arena in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • 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_69ad8b1793888190a5f70e4b21dc05a1 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc54ce1788190ac000793cbdaba48 completed March 8, 2026, 6:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4cdfe77a481908880d0a4a5946656 completed March 14, 2026, 2:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4cfcf3bd08190a372be19017adcd0 completed March 14, 2026, 3:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4d0bb861c8190a8540198a47c13c1 completed March 14, 2026, 3:06 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:33 p.m.