Triple

T4116107
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject unity of science E90294 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object "The Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis" by Oppenheim and Putnam
"The Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis" by Oppenheim and Putnam is a seminal mid-20th-century philosophical paper that defends the idea that all scientific disciplines can, in principle, be integrated into a single, hierarchically organized and inter-reducible system of knowledge.
E412359 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 Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis" by Oppenheim and Putnam | Statement: [unity of science, notableWork, "The Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis" by Oppenheim and Putnam]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: "The Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis" by Oppenheim and Putnam
Context triple: [unity of science, notableWork, "The Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis" by Oppenheim and Putnam]
  • A. The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle
    "The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle" is a foundational manifesto that articulates the Vienna Circle’s program of scientifically oriented philosophy, emphasizing empirical verification, logical analysis, and the rejection of metaphysics.
  • B. On the Status of Science and of Metaphysics
    "On the Status of Science and of Metaphysics" is a philosophical essay by Karl Popper that examines the relationship, boundaries, and methodological differences between empirical science and metaphysical speculation.
  • C. The Logic of Scientific Discovery
    The Logic of Scientific Discovery is Karl Popper’s foundational philosophical work that introduces falsifiability as the key criterion distinguishing scientific theories from non-scientific ones.
  • D. “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”
    “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” is a landmark philosophical essay that challenges the analytic–synthetic distinction and reductionism, reshaping 20th-century debates in epistemology and the philosophy of language.
  • E. Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
    Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes is a seminal philosophical work by Imre Lakatos that refines Karl Popper’s falsificationism by introducing the concept of competing scientific research programmes and criteria for their progressive or degenerative development.
  • 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 Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis" by Oppenheim and Putnam
Triple: [unity of science, notableWork, "The Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis" by Oppenheim and Putnam]
Generated description
"The Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis" by Oppenheim and Putnam is a seminal mid-20th-century philosophical paper that defends the idea that all scientific disciplines can, in principle, be integrated into a single, hierarchically organized and inter-reducible system of knowledge.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: "The Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis" by Oppenheim and Putnam
Target entity description: "The Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis" by Oppenheim and Putnam is a seminal mid-20th-century philosophical paper that defends the idea that all scientific disciplines can, in principle, be integrated into a single, hierarchically organized and inter-reducible system of knowledge.
  • A. The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle
    "The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle" is a foundational manifesto that articulates the Vienna Circle’s program of scientifically oriented philosophy, emphasizing empirical verification, logical analysis, and the rejection of metaphysics.
  • B. On the Status of Science and of Metaphysics
    "On the Status of Science and of Metaphysics" is a philosophical essay by Karl Popper that examines the relationship, boundaries, and methodological differences between empirical science and metaphysical speculation.
  • C. The Logic of Scientific Discovery
    The Logic of Scientific Discovery is Karl Popper’s foundational philosophical work that introduces falsifiability as the key criterion distinguishing scientific theories from non-scientific ones.
  • D. “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”
    “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” is a landmark philosophical essay that challenges the analytic–synthetic distinction and reductionism, reshaping 20th-century debates in epistemology and the philosophy of language.
  • E. Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
    Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes is a seminal philosophical work by Imre Lakatos that refines Karl Popper’s falsificationism by introducing the concept of competing scientific research programmes and criteria for their progressive or degenerative development.
  • 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_69aed95c080881908125e30c5dcdc6f8 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af01f1e2e08190a6b73d7674c34e88 completed March 9, 2026, 5:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b56b90054081908a51c366c6fe51d7 completed March 14, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b56c0a3b1c81908ae4c630c6881c1c completed March 14, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b56c94df3481908d2f4a3976fb775b completed March 14, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:41 p.m.