Triple

T4781160
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject C. D. Broad E106166 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object J. M. E. McTaggart
J. M. E. McTaggart was a British idealist philosopher best known for his arguments against the reality of time and his influential work in metaphysics.
E470775 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. M. E. McTaggart | Statement: [C. D. Broad, influencedBy, J. M. E. McTaggart]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. M. E. McTaggart
Context triple: [C. D. Broad, influencedBy, J. M. E. McTaggart]
  • A. C. D. Broad
    C. D. Broad was a 20th-century British philosopher known for his influential work in ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind, particularly on topics such as induction, perception, and psychical research.
  • B. Alfred North Whitehead
    Alfred North Whitehead was a British mathematician and philosopher best known for his work in mathematical logic and process philosophy, including co-authoring the landmark work *Principia Mathematica* with Bertrand Russell.
  • C. Charles Morris
    Charles Morris was a distinguished early 19th-century United States Navy officer noted for his valor and leadership during the War of 1812.
  • D. George Swinburne
    George Swinburne was an Australian engineer, politician, and education advocate whose contributions to technical and higher education led to institutions such as Swinburne Technical College bearing his name.
  • E. Arthur Prior
    Arthur Prior was a 20th-century logician and philosopher best known as the founder of tense logic and a major contributor to modal and philosophical logic.
  • 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. M. E. McTaggart
Triple: [C. D. Broad, influencedBy, J. M. E. McTaggart]
Generated description
J. M. E. McTaggart was a British idealist philosopher best known for his arguments against the reality of time and his influential work in metaphysics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. M. E. McTaggart
Target entity description: J. M. E. McTaggart was a British idealist philosopher best known for his arguments against the reality of time and his influential work in metaphysics.
  • A. C. D. Broad
    C. D. Broad was a 20th-century British philosopher known for his influential work in ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind, particularly on topics such as induction, perception, and psychical research.
  • B. Alfred North Whitehead
    Alfred North Whitehead was a British mathematician and philosopher best known for his work in mathematical logic and process philosophy, including co-authoring the landmark work *Principia Mathematica* with Bertrand Russell.
  • C. Charles Morris
    Charles Morris was a distinguished early 19th-century United States Navy officer noted for his valor and leadership during the War of 1812.
  • D. George Swinburne
    George Swinburne was an Australian engineer, politician, and education advocate whose contributions to technical and higher education led to institutions such as Swinburne Technical College bearing his name.
  • E. Arthur Prior
    Arthur Prior was a 20th-century logician and philosopher best known as the founder of tense logic and a major contributor to modal and philosophical logic.
  • 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_69bd43f3074c8190937e7b0a457fe9f1 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd65aa577c81909ec1b94e47810169 completed March 20, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be43d371b081908142e6d66780e0f0 completed March 21, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be46f9aa048190a5d0ada90ee57451 completed March 21, 2026, 7:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be481013c08190b36304044a16c5f4 completed March 21, 2026, 7:26 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:21 p.m.