Triple

T4432224
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite E95356 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object The Cloud of Unknowing (anonymous author)
The Cloud of Unknowing is a 14th-century English mystical treatise that teaches contemplative, apophatic prayer through loving surrender to God beyond all intellectual understanding.
E440525 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 Cloud of Unknowing (anonymous author) | Statement: [Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, influenced, The Cloud of Unknowing (anonymous author)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Cloud of Unknowing (anonymous author)
Context triple: [Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, influenced, The Cloud of Unknowing (anonymous author)]
  • A. The New Theologian
    The New Theologian is the honorific title of Symeon, a 10th–11th century Byzantine monk and mystic renowned for his influential writings on personal experience of divine light and inner spiritual transformation.
  • B. The Ladder of Divine Ascent
    The Ladder of Divine Ascent is a classic 7th-century Eastern Christian spiritual treatise that outlines a 30-step path of ascetic and contemplative practices leading the soul toward union with God.
  • C. Ancrene Wisse
    Ancrene Wisse is an early 13th-century Middle English devotional and instructional guide written for female religious recluses (anchoresses), notable for its spiritual counsel and insight into medieval religious life.
  • D. Speculum Meditantis
    Speculum Meditantis is a Middle English allegorical poem by John Gower that explores moral and religious themes through a mirror-for-the-soul framework.
  • E. Letters on the Spiritual Life
    Letters on the Spiritual Life is a collection of pastoral and ascetical writings by the 19th-century Russian Orthodox bishop and mystic St. Theophan the Recluse, offering practical guidance on prayer, repentance, and inner spiritual growth.
  • 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 Cloud of Unknowing (anonymous author)
Triple: [Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, influenced, The Cloud of Unknowing (anonymous author)]
Generated description
The Cloud of Unknowing is a 14th-century English mystical treatise that teaches contemplative, apophatic prayer through loving surrender to God beyond all intellectual understanding.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Cloud of Unknowing (anonymous author)
Target entity description: The Cloud of Unknowing is a 14th-century English mystical treatise that teaches contemplative, apophatic prayer through loving surrender to God beyond all intellectual understanding.
  • A. The New Theologian
    The New Theologian is the honorific title of Symeon, a 10th–11th century Byzantine monk and mystic renowned for his influential writings on personal experience of divine light and inner spiritual transformation.
  • B. The Ladder of Divine Ascent
    The Ladder of Divine Ascent is a classic 7th-century Eastern Christian spiritual treatise that outlines a 30-step path of ascetic and contemplative practices leading the soul toward union with God.
  • C. Ancrene Wisse
    Ancrene Wisse is an early 13th-century Middle English devotional and instructional guide written for female religious recluses (anchoresses), notable for its spiritual counsel and insight into medieval religious life.
  • D. Speculum Meditantis
    Speculum Meditantis is a Middle English allegorical poem by John Gower that explores moral and religious themes through a mirror-for-the-soul framework.
  • E. Letters on the Spiritual Life
    Letters on the Spiritual Life is a collection of pastoral and ascetical writings by the 19th-century Russian Orthodox bishop and mystic St. Theophan the Recluse, offering practical guidance on prayer, repentance, and inner spiritual growth.
  • 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_69b3453c2a0c8190926b574c90766db9 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b3556cd83881908547aa311c4f17fa completed March 13, 2026, 12:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b6137171148190b77a6f783d5cf315 completed March 15, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b6177d1a588190991fddf506239d22 completed March 15, 2026, 2:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b61b6bc1448190b30d444a821bb1a5 completed March 15, 2026, 2:37 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:31 p.m.