Triple

T765759
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Rawls E16171 entity
Predicate notableIdea P4 FINISHED
Object veil of ignorance
The veil of ignorance is a philosophical thought experiment that asks people to design a just society without knowing their own position within it, ensuring fairness and impartiality in the principles they choose.
E91451 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: veil of ignorance | Statement: [John Rawls, notableIdea, veil of ignorance]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: veil of ignorance
Context triple: [John Rawls, notableIdea, veil of ignorance]
  • A. The Idea of Justice
    The Idea of Justice is a philosophical work by Amartya Sen that critiques traditional theories of justice and proposes a comparative, realization-focused approach grounded in public reasoning and human capabilities.
  • B. Formula of Autonomy
    The Formula of Autonomy is a key Kantian moral principle that grounds ethical duties in the rational agent’s capacity to legislate universal moral law for themselves.
  • C. kingdom of ends
    The kingdom of ends is Immanuel Kant’s ethical ideal of a moral community in which all rational beings legislate and follow universal moral laws while treating each other always as ends in themselves, never merely as means.
  • D. Vérité
    Vérité is a socially engaged novel by Émile Zola that denounces anti-Semitism and religious intolerance in France, inspired by the Dreyfus Affair.
  • E. On Equilibrium
    On Equilibrium is a philosophical work by John Ralston Saul that explores the importance of balancing key human qualities—such as reason, ethics, and common sense—to create a more humane and democratic society.
  • 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: veil of ignorance
Triple: [John Rawls, notableIdea, veil of ignorance]
Generated description
The veil of ignorance is a philosophical thought experiment that asks people to design a just society without knowing their own position within it, ensuring fairness and impartiality in the principles they choose.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: veil of ignorance
Target entity description: The veil of ignorance is a philosophical thought experiment that asks people to design a just society without knowing their own position within it, ensuring fairness and impartiality in the principles they choose.
  • A. The Idea of Justice
    The Idea of Justice is a philosophical work by Amartya Sen that critiques traditional theories of justice and proposes a comparative, realization-focused approach grounded in public reasoning and human capabilities.
  • B. Formula of Autonomy
    The Formula of Autonomy is a key Kantian moral principle that grounds ethical duties in the rational agent’s capacity to legislate universal moral law for themselves.
  • C. kingdom of ends
    The kingdom of ends is Immanuel Kant’s ethical ideal of a moral community in which all rational beings legislate and follow universal moral laws while treating each other always as ends in themselves, never merely as means.
  • D. Vérité
    Vérité is a socially engaged novel by Émile Zola that denounces anti-Semitism and religious intolerance in France, inspired by the Dreyfus Affair.
  • E. On Equilibrium
    On Equilibrium is a philosophical work by John Ralston Saul that explores the importance of balancing key human qualities—such as reason, ethics, and common sense—to create a more humane and democratic society.
  • 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_69a493684ee48190bd43b7c78da4aec8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a69fb6ac8190bda41852ea01842c completed March 1, 2026, 8:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a666760a4c8190afd00dbfc263be28 completed March 3, 2026, 4:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a66a6289a881909a2ada9c8a5ea091 completed March 3, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a66ad0da0081909fc828eccabf5b80 completed March 3, 2026, 5 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.