Triple

T4231356
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Nagel E94587 entity
Predicate hasWork P6260 FINISHED
Object "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"
"What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" is a seminal 1974 philosophical essay by Thomas Nagel that argues the subjective character of conscious experience cannot be fully captured by objective, physicalist accounts of the mind.
 E421692 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: "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" | Statement: [Thomas Nagel, hasWork, "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"
Context triple: [Thomas Nagel, hasWork, "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"]
  • A. Bats people
    Bats people are a small Nakh-speaking ethnic group from the Caucasus region, closely related to Chechens and Ingush, traditionally inhabiting parts of northeastern Georgia.
  • B. The Bat
    The Bat is a popular inverted boomerang-style roller coaster at Canada's Wonderland known for its intense forward and backward loops.
  • C. Song to a Seagull
    Song to a Seagull is the 1968 debut studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, showcasing her early folk sound and poetic lyricism.
  • D. Winged Monkeys
    Winged Monkeys are magical, flying primates from L. Frank Baum’s Oz universe, best known for serving whoever controls the Golden Cap and for their memorable appearance in the 1939 film adaptation.
  • E. The Bird
    The Bird is a famous oversized bronze bird sculpture by Colombian artist Fernando Botero, exemplifying his signature exaggerated, voluminous style.
  • 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: "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"
Triple: [Thomas Nagel, hasWork, "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"]
Generated description
"What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" is a seminal 1974 philosophical essay by Thomas Nagel that argues the subjective character of conscious experience cannot be fully captured by objective, physicalist accounts of the mind.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"
Target entity description: "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" is a seminal 1974 philosophical essay by Thomas Nagel that argues the subjective character of conscious experience cannot be fully captured by objective, physicalist accounts of the mind.
  • A. Bats people
    Bats people are a small Nakh-speaking ethnic group from the Caucasus region, closely related to Chechens and Ingush, traditionally inhabiting parts of northeastern Georgia.
  • B. The Bat
    The Bat is a popular inverted boomerang-style roller coaster at Canada's Wonderland known for its intense forward and backward loops.
  • C. Song to a Seagull
    Song to a Seagull is the 1968 debut studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, showcasing her early folk sound and poetic lyricism.
  • D. Winged Monkeys
    Winged Monkeys are magical, flying primates from L. Frank Baum’s Oz universe, best known for serving whoever controls the Golden Cap and for their memorable appearance in the 1939 film adaptation.
  • E. The Bird
    The Bird is a famous oversized bronze bird sculpture by Colombian artist Fernando Botero, exemplifying his signature exaggerated, voluminous style.
  • 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.