Triple

T7410862
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy E170997 entity
Predicate hasEssay P27484 FINISHED
Object What Psychical Research Has Accomplished
"What Psychical Research Has Accomplished" is an essay by William James in which he critically examines and summarizes the findings and significance of late 19th-century psychical research into phenomena such as telepathy and spiritualism.
E661620 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: What Psychical Research Has Accomplished | Statement: [The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, hasEssay, What Psychical Research Has Accomplished]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: What Psychical Research Has Accomplished
Context triple: [The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, hasEssay, What Psychical Research Has Accomplished]
  • A. The Message of Psychic Science to Mothers and Nurses
    The Message of Psychic Science to Mothers and Nurses is a didactic work by Mary Everest that applies contemporary psychological and psychical ideas to the practical care and moral education of children.
  • B. Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind
    Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind is an influential 1829 work of associationist psychology and philosophy by James Mill that systematically examines mental processes through the principles of association.
  • C. Spiritualism
    Spiritualism is a religious and philosophical movement centered on the belief that the spirits of the dead can and do communicate with the living, often through mediums and séances.
  • D. 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.
  • E. The Legend of Hell House
    The Legend of Hell House is a 1973 British supernatural horror film, based on Richard Matheson's novel, about a group of investigators exploring a notoriously haunted mansion.
  • 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: What Psychical Research Has Accomplished
Triple: [The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, hasEssay, What Psychical Research Has Accomplished]
Generated description
"What Psychical Research Has Accomplished" is an essay by William James in which he critically examines and summarizes the findings and significance of late 19th-century psychical research into phenomena such as telepathy and spiritualism.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: What Psychical Research Has Accomplished
Target entity description: "What Psychical Research Has Accomplished" is an essay by William James in which he critically examines and summarizes the findings and significance of late 19th-century psychical research into phenomena such as telepathy and spiritualism.
  • A. The Message of Psychic Science to Mothers and Nurses
    The Message of Psychic Science to Mothers and Nurses is a didactic work by Mary Everest that applies contemporary psychological and psychical ideas to the practical care and moral education of children.
  • B. Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind
    Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind is an influential 1829 work of associationist psychology and philosophy by James Mill that systematically examines mental processes through the principles of association.
  • C. Spiritualism
    Spiritualism is a religious and philosophical movement centered on the belief that the spirits of the dead can and do communicate with the living, often through mediums and séances.
  • D. 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.
  • E. The Legend of Hell House
    The Legend of Hell House is a 1973 British supernatural horror film, based on Richard Matheson's novel, about a group of investigators exploring a notoriously haunted mansion.
  • 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_69c68a618bdc81908d8018edadecd1a4 completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f29ebea48190be96c6bc1e6406fb completed March 27, 2026, 9:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c811244df081909b63e085d2272cd2 completed March 28, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c81271a7f48190afc7c7b2c818cb8a completed March 28, 2026, 5:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c812df0b948190805862c5f176c956 completed March 28, 2026, 5:41 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:11 p.m.