Triple
T5499363
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Pascal's wager |
E144287
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entity |
| Predicate | influenced |
P9
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FINISHED |
| Object | William James's "The Will to Believe" |
E170997
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NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: William James's "The Will to Believe" | Statement: [Pascal's wager, influenced, William James's "The Will to Believe"]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William James's "The Will to Believe" Context triple: [Pascal's wager, influenced, William James's "The Will to Believe"]
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A.
The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
chosen
The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy is a collection of philosophical essays by William James that defends the legitimacy of religious and moral belief in the absence of conclusive evidence.
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B.
The Fixation of Belief
The Fixation of Belief is an 1877 philosophical essay by Charles Sanders Peirce that analyzes how people form and secure their beliefs and proposes a scientific method as the most reliable way to fix them.
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C.
The Varieties of Religious Experience
The Varieties of Religious Experience is a landmark 1902 work of psychology and philosophy in which William James analyzes personal religious and mystical experiences to explore the nature and value of religion.
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D.
On the Freedom of the Will
On the Freedom of the Will is a philosophical treatise by Arthur Schopenhauer that critically examines the nature of human freedom, moral responsibility, and determinism.
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E.
Belief: Readings on the Reason for Faith
"Belief: Readings on the Reason for Faith" is a collection of essays and reflections edited by geneticist Francis Collins that explores the relationship between science, reason, and religious faith.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69c008f5a2748190bce7a39aabf87a6d |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c01b921884819082fe30100c71e516 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 4:40 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c02796cac88190abd8d58eb7ae1267 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 5:32 p.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:32 p.m.