Triple
T698210
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Presocratic philosophers |
E13939
|
entity |
| Predicate | includes |
P1393
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Melissus of Samos
Melissus of Samos was a 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher and Eleatic thinker known for arguing that reality is a single, unchanging, infinite being.
|
E131146
|
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: Melissus of Samos | Statement: [Presocratic philosophers, includes, Melissus of Samos]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Melissus of Samos Context triple: [Presocratic philosophers, includes, Melissus of Samos]
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A.
Parmenides
Parmenides was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea known for his doctrine that reality is unchanging and that all change and plurality are illusory.
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B.
Empedocles
Empedocles was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, poet, and scientist best known for proposing the four classical elements—earth, air, fire, and water—as the fundamental constituents of reality.
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C.
Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher known for introducing the concept of Nous (Mind) as the cosmic ordering principle and for offering naturalistic explanations of celestial and physical phenomena.
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D.
Anaximenes of Miletus
Anaximenes of Miletus was an early Greek Presocratic thinker who proposed that air is the fundamental substance underlying all reality.
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E.
Anaximander
Anaximander was an early Greek Presocratic philosopher from Miletus known for proposing the apeiron (the boundless) as the origin of all things and for pioneering rational explanations of the cosmos and natural phenomena.
- 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: Melissus of Samos Triple: [Presocratic philosophers, includes, Melissus of Samos]
Generated description
Melissus of Samos was a 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher and Eleatic thinker known for arguing that reality is a single, unchanging, infinite being.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Melissus of Samos Target entity description: Melissus of Samos was a 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher and Eleatic thinker known for arguing that reality is a single, unchanging, infinite being.
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A.
Parmenides
Parmenides was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea known for his doctrine that reality is unchanging and that all change and plurality are illusory.
-
B.
Empedocles
Empedocles was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, poet, and scientist best known for proposing the four classical elements—earth, air, fire, and water—as the fundamental constituents of reality.
-
C.
Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher known for introducing the concept of Nous (Mind) as the cosmic ordering principle and for offering naturalistic explanations of celestial and physical phenomena.
-
D.
Anaximenes of Miletus
Anaximenes of Miletus was an early Greek Presocratic thinker who proposed that air is the fundamental substance underlying all reality.
-
E.
Anaximander
Anaximander was an early Greek Presocratic philosopher from Miletus known for proposing the apeiron (the boundless) as the origin of all things and for pioneering rational explanations of the cosmos and natural phenomena.
- 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_69a493406c408190957eeec9048a8fb6 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4a0c99be48190babc37c397b6a186 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:25 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac5e92d6b0819091fad60317eee455 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:21 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ac5f06ad4c8190b3b7b65084cc9fe8 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:23 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ac5f9b8bf48190a42307ab7ef7d803 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:25 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.