Triple

T6697516
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Carlos Williams E152786 entity
Predicate notableIdea P4 FINISHED
Object "No ideas but in things"
"No ideas but in things" is William Carlos Williams’s famous modernist credo emphasizing concrete, sensory imagery over abstract concepts in poetry.
E610619 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: "No ideas but in things" | Statement: [William Carlos Williams, notableIdea, "No ideas but in things"]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: "No ideas but in things"
Context triple: [William Carlos Williams, notableIdea, "No ideas but in things"]
  • A. “On What There Is”
    “On What There Is” is a seminal philosophical essay by W.V.O. Quine that challenges traditional notions of ontology and argues for a criterion of ontological commitment based on the quantificational structure of our best scientific theories.
  • B. The Concept of Nature
    The Concept of Nature is a 1920 philosophical work by Alfred North Whitehead that analyzes the relationship between nature, perception, and scientific description, laying groundwork for his later process philosophy.
  • C. The Shape of Ideas
    The Shape of Ideas is a book by British politician and author Douglas Hurd that reflects on political thought, public life, and the evolution of ideas in modern governance.
  • D. Reflections on Things at Hand
    Reflections on Things at Hand is a classic Neo-Confucian anthology of philosophical writings and commentaries, traditionally attributed to Zhu Xi and his collaborators, that systematizes moral and metaphysical teachings for scholarly self-cultivation.
  • E. The Bounds of Sense
    The Bounds of Sense is a major work of analytic philosophy by P. F. Strawson that critically examines and partially reconstructs Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.
  • 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: "No ideas but in things"
Triple: [William Carlos Williams, notableIdea, "No ideas but in things"]
Generated description
"No ideas but in things" is William Carlos Williams’s famous modernist credo emphasizing concrete, sensory imagery over abstract concepts in poetry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: "No ideas but in things"
Target entity description: "No ideas but in things" is William Carlos Williams’s famous modernist credo emphasizing concrete, sensory imagery over abstract concepts in poetry.
  • A. “On What There Is”
    “On What There Is” is a seminal philosophical essay by W.V.O. Quine that challenges traditional notions of ontology and argues for a criterion of ontological commitment based on the quantificational structure of our best scientific theories.
  • B. The Concept of Nature
    The Concept of Nature is a 1920 philosophical work by Alfred North Whitehead that analyzes the relationship between nature, perception, and scientific description, laying groundwork for his later process philosophy.
  • C. The Shape of Ideas
    The Shape of Ideas is a book by British politician and author Douglas Hurd that reflects on political thought, public life, and the evolution of ideas in modern governance.
  • D. Reflections on Things at Hand
    Reflections on Things at Hand is a classic Neo-Confucian anthology of philosophical writings and commentaries, traditionally attributed to Zhu Xi and his collaborators, that systematizes moral and metaphysical teachings for scholarly self-cultivation.
  • E. The Bounds of Sense
    The Bounds of Sense is a major work of analytic philosophy by P. F. Strawson that critically examines and partially reconstructs Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.
  • 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_69c68807adbc8190b8632df42b39eda0 completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d0a4da9881908d79c410b4cff868 completed March 27, 2026, 6:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6f7bd965881908a128d97f1c94dd0 completed March 27, 2026, 9:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6f86fb37c8190ba0ed52d998643d6 completed March 27, 2026, 9:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6f8d6c9d481908d988984e0aed6bc completed March 27, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:05 p.m.