Triple

T8332747
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Lane Craig E195111 entity
Predicate hasWritten P2831 FINISHED
Object The Kalam Cosmological Argument
The Kalam Cosmological Argument is a modern philosophical and theological defense of the claim that the universe has a cause for its beginning, most prominently developed and popularized by Christian philosopher William Lane Craig.
E726741 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: The Kalam Cosmological Argument | Statement: [William Lane Craig, hasWritten, The Kalam Cosmological Argument]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Kalam Cosmological Argument
Context triple: [William Lane Craig, hasWritten, The Kalam Cosmological Argument]
  • A. An Essay in Cosmology
    An Essay in Cosmology is the subtitle of Alfred North Whitehead’s major philosophical work *Process and Reality*, which presents his influential process philosophy and metaphysical system.
  • B. The Existence of God
    The Existence of God is a major work of analytic philosophy of religion in which Richard Swinburne presents a detailed, probabilistic argument for the rationality of believing in God’s existence.
  • C. The Case for God
    The Case for God is a 2009 book by religious historian Karen Armstrong that explores the history of religious thought and argues for a more nuanced, experiential understanding of God beyond rigid dogma and atheistic critiques.
  • D. The Origin and Fate of the Universe
    The Origin and Fate of the Universe is a chapter in Stephen Hawking’s popular science book A Brief History of Time that explores cosmological models for how the universe began, evolves, and might ultimately end.
  • E. The Analytic Theist
    The Analytic Theist is a collection of essays and interviews by philosopher Alvin Plantinga that explores and defends the rationality of theistic belief using tools of contemporary analytic philosophy.
  • 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: The Kalam Cosmological Argument
Triple: [William Lane Craig, hasWritten, The Kalam Cosmological Argument]
Generated description
The Kalam Cosmological Argument is a modern philosophical and theological defense of the claim that the universe has a cause for its beginning, most prominently developed and popularized by Christian philosopher William Lane Craig.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Kalam Cosmological Argument
Target entity description: The Kalam Cosmological Argument is a modern philosophical and theological defense of the claim that the universe has a cause for its beginning, most prominently developed and popularized by Christian philosopher William Lane Craig.
  • A. The Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibniz
    The Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibniz is a scholarly work by philosopher and theologian William Lane Craig that traces and analyzes the historical development of cosmological arguments for the existence of God from ancient Greek thought through early modern philosophy.
  • B. 36 Arguments for the Existence of God
    36 Arguments for the Existence of God is a philosophical novel by Rebecca Goldstein that intertwines satire, intellectual debate, and emotional narrative to explore faith, reason, and the nature of belief.
  • C. Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology
    "Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology" is a philosophical and theological work examining how contemporary Big Bang cosmology bears on the rationality of belief in God versus atheism.
  • D. An Essay in Cosmology
    An Essay in Cosmology is the subtitle of Alfred North Whitehead’s major philosophical work *Process and Reality*, which presents his influential process philosophy and metaphysical system.
  • E. The Existence of God
    The Existence of God is a major work of analytic philosophy of religion in which Richard Swinburne presents a detailed, probabilistic argument for the rationality of believing in God’s existence.
  • 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_69ca82e87f2c8190bdb71ee29dfc642d completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb7fbce4048190838b5bca8e7b219c completed March 31, 2026, 8:03 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cd95ca93148190b6e34d815c7de10d completed April 1, 2026, 10:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cdb20e46b881908d3c6b177e206e50 completed April 2, 2026, 12:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cdb654a2348190a41a6aebf96d8ea6 completed April 2, 2026, 12:20 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:57 p.m.