Triple

T6389878
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Melissa Lane E143794 entity
Predicate hasWritten P2831 FINISHED
Object Method and Politics in Plato’s Statesman
Method and Politics in Plato’s Statesman is a scholarly monograph by political theorist Melissa Lane that offers a detailed philosophical and political interpretation of Plato’s dialogue the Statesman.
E589593 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: Method and Politics in Plato’s Statesman | Statement: [Melissa Lane, hasWritten, Method and Politics in Plato’s Statesman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Method and Politics in Plato’s Statesman
Context triple: [Melissa Lane, hasWritten, Method and Politics in Plato’s Statesman]
  • A. Aristotle's Politics
    Aristotle's Politics is a foundational work of ancient Greek political philosophy that systematically examines the nature of the city-state, citizenship, constitutions, and the pursuit of the good life in political communities.
  • B. Aristotle’s Athenian Constitution
    Aristotle’s Athenian Constitution is an ancient Greek treatise that systematically outlines the political history and institutional structure of Athens, traditionally attributed to Aristotle or his school.
  • C. The Concept of the Political
    The Concept of the Political is Carl Schmitt’s influential treatise that defines the political realm through the friend–enemy distinction and critiques liberalism’s attempt to depoliticize conflict.
  • D. On Thucydides
    On Thucydides is a critical essay by the ancient Greek rhetorician Dionysius of Halicarnassus that evaluates the style and historiographical methods of the historian Thucydides.
  • E. The Virtuous City
    The Virtuous City is a foundational philosophical treatise by Al-Farabi that outlines his vision of an ideal, rationally ordered society governed by a virtuous ruler.
  • 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: Method and Politics in Plato’s Statesman
Triple: [Melissa Lane, hasWritten, Method and Politics in Plato’s Statesman]
Generated description
Method and Politics in Plato’s Statesman is a scholarly monograph by political theorist Melissa Lane that offers a detailed philosophical and political interpretation of Plato’s dialogue the Statesman.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Method and Politics in Plato’s Statesman
Target entity description: Method and Politics in Plato’s Statesman is a scholarly monograph by political theorist Melissa Lane that offers a detailed philosophical and political interpretation of Plato’s dialogue the Statesman.
  • A. Aristotle's Politics
    Aristotle's Politics is a foundational work of ancient Greek political philosophy that systematically examines the nature of the city-state, citizenship, constitutions, and the pursuit of the good life in political communities.
  • B. Aristotle’s Athenian Constitution
    Aristotle’s Athenian Constitution is an ancient Greek treatise that systematically outlines the political history and institutional structure of Athens, traditionally attributed to Aristotle or his school.
  • C. The Concept of the Political
    The Concept of the Political is Carl Schmitt’s influential treatise that defines the political realm through the friend–enemy distinction and critiques liberalism’s attempt to depoliticize conflict.
  • D. On Thucydides
    On Thucydides is a critical essay by the ancient Greek rhetorician Dionysius of Halicarnassus that evaluates the style and historiographical methods of the historian Thucydides.
  • E. The Virtuous City
    The Virtuous City is a foundational philosophical treatise by Al-Farabi that outlines his vision of an ideal, rationally ordered society governed by a virtuous ruler.
  • 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_69c008db906c819096f3597d55d95432 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0686cc6d481909c62a29a84a4ce8e completed March 22, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c638868d4481908611530d0bc8e286 completed March 27, 2026, 7:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c639320a608190bc1123fe00ac1f9a completed March 27, 2026, 8 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c639f9916c8190a1a9f0284198aebd completed March 27, 2026, 8:04 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:34 p.m.