Triple

T4231330
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Nagel E94587 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"
"What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" is a landmark philosophical essay by Thomas Nagel that argues subjective conscious experience cannot be fully explained by objective physical theories, using the example of a bat’s echolocation to illustrate the limits of reductionism.
 E421685 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: essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" | Statement: [Thomas Nagel, knownFor, essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"
Context triple: [Thomas Nagel, knownFor, essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"]
  • A. Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening
    Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening is a 1944 surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí that depicts a hyper-realistic dream scene exploring the boundary between sleep and sudden awakening.
  • B. Essays of a Biologist
    Essays of a Biologist is a collection of influential essays by evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley that explores biology’s implications for human society, philosophy, and the modern worldview.
  • C. A Fable for Critics
    A Fable for Critics is a satirical poem by James Russell Lowell that humorously critiques and caricatures his contemporary American authors and the literary scene of his time.
  • D. Praise of the Creatures
    Praise of the Creatures is a religious poem traditionally attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi that celebrates God through the beauty and harmony of creation.
  • E. For Small Creatures Such as We
    For Small Creatures Such as We is a reflective nonfiction book by Sasha Sagan that explores meaning, ritual, and wonder in a secular, science-informed worldview.
  • 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: essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"
Triple: [Thomas Nagel, knownFor, essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"]
Generated description
"What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" is a landmark philosophical essay by Thomas Nagel that argues subjective conscious experience cannot be fully explained by objective physical theories, using the example of a bat’s echolocation to illustrate the limits of reductionism.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"
Target entity description: "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" is a landmark philosophical essay by Thomas Nagel that argues subjective conscious experience cannot be fully explained by objective physical theories, using the example of a bat’s echolocation to illustrate the limits of reductionism.
  • A. Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening
    Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening is a 1944 surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí that depicts a hyper-realistic dream scene exploring the boundary between sleep and sudden awakening.
  • B. Essays of a Biologist
    Essays of a Biologist is a collection of influential essays by evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley that explores biology’s implications for human society, philosophy, and the modern worldview.
  • C. A Fable for Critics
    A Fable for Critics is a satirical poem by James Russell Lowell that humorously critiques and caricatures his contemporary American authors and the literary scene of his time.
  • D. Praise of the Creatures
    Praise of the Creatures is a religious poem traditionally attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi that celebrates God through the beauty and harmony of creation.
  • E. For Small Creatures Such as We
    For Small Creatures Such as We is a reflective nonfiction book by Sasha Sagan that explores meaning, ritual, and wonder in a secular, science-informed worldview.
  • 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_69b34537cc6481909cd0a96acbb33ef7 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b34e62e3c881909ffb9269ba9018b9 completed March 12, 2026, 11:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5964f364881908c53cd46af6b1e98 completed March 14, 2026, 5:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b59731052881908d9358dc629a4018 completed March 14, 2026, 5:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b597c529a08190bbf2af92bfef1aa2 completed March 14, 2026, 5:15 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:05 p.m.