Triple

T8389363
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Alston E197901 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Reliability of Sense Perception
The Reliability of Sense Perception is a major work in epistemology by William Alston that defends the justificatory role of perceptual experience in forming rational beliefs about the external world.
E730164 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 Reliability of Sense Perception | Statement: [William Alston, notableWork, The Reliability of Sense Perception]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Reliability of Sense Perception
Context triple: [William Alston, notableWork, The Reliability of Sense Perception]
  • A. Science, Perception and Reality
    Science, Perception and Reality is a landmark collection of Wilfrid Sellars’s philosophical essays that critically examines empiricism, the nature of perception, and the relationship between scientific and everyday conceptions of the world.
  • B. Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind
    Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind is Wilfrid Sellars’s influential 1956 essay that critiques traditional empiricism and introduces the famous distinction between the “space of reasons” and the “space of causes” in theories of mind and knowledge.
  • C. The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge
    The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge is a 1940 philosophical work by A. J. Ayer that defends logical empiricism by critically examining sense-data theories and the justification of empirical beliefs.
  • D. Essays in Radical Empiricism
    Essays in Radical Empiricism is a posthumously published collection of philosophical writings by William James that develops his influential doctrine of radical empiricism, emphasizing the primacy of experience and relations in understanding reality.
  • E. Phenomenology of Mind
    Phenomenology of Mind is the English title of G. W. F. Hegel’s seminal philosophical work that traces the development of human consciousness, self-awareness, and reason toward absolute knowledge.
  • 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 Reliability of Sense Perception
Triple: [William Alston, notableWork, The Reliability of Sense Perception]
Generated description
The Reliability of Sense Perception is a major work in epistemology by William Alston that defends the justificatory role of perceptual experience in forming rational beliefs about the external world.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Reliability of Sense Perception
Target entity description: The Reliability of Sense Perception is a major work in epistemology by William Alston that defends the justificatory role of perceptual experience in forming rational beliefs about the external world.
  • A. Science, Perception and Reality
    Science, Perception and Reality is a landmark collection of Wilfrid Sellars’s philosophical essays that critically examines empiricism, the nature of perception, and the relationship between scientific and everyday conceptions of the world.
  • B. Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind
    Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind is Wilfrid Sellars’s influential 1956 essay that critiques traditional empiricism and introduces the famous distinction between the “space of reasons” and the “space of causes” in theories of mind and knowledge.
  • C. The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge
    The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge is a 1940 philosophical work by A. J. Ayer that defends logical empiricism by critically examining sense-data theories and the justification of empirical beliefs.
  • D. Essays in Radical Empiricism
    Essays in Radical Empiricism is a posthumously published collection of philosophical writings by William James that develops his influential doctrine of radical empiricism, emphasizing the primacy of experience and relations in understanding reality.
  • E. Phenomenology of Mind
    Phenomenology of Mind is the English title of G. W. F. Hegel’s seminal philosophical work that traces the development of human consciousness, self-awareness, and reason toward absolute knowledge.
  • 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_69ca82f749388190bffbea6dfb509016 completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb810ac380819095bd67f0555ac2a8 completed March 31, 2026, 8:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cde84427dc8190925150b5d52bc9a0 completed April 2, 2026, 3:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cdebfafe84819097f387318897dae1 completed April 2, 2026, 4:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cded2a9c2c8190bdbeddad562ef9e8 completed April 2, 2026, 4:14 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:03 p.m.