Triple

T9914420
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Finnis E185830 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory
Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory is a major philosophical study by John Finnis that systematically interprets and defends Thomas Aquinas’s views on ethics, politics, and law within the framework of contemporary natural law theory.
E829704 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: Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory | Statement: [John Finnis, notableWork, Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory
Context triple: [John Finnis, notableWork, Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory]
  • A. The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas
    The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas is a major 20th-century study by Étienne Gilson that systematically presents and interprets the philosophical thought of Thomas Aquinas within its Christian theological context.
  • B. Principles of Moral and Political Science
    Principles of Moral and Political Science is an influential late-18th-century treatise by Scottish Enlightenment thinker Adam Ferguson that explores the foundations of ethics, civil society, and political order.
  • C. Foundations of Natural Right
    Foundations of Natural Right is a seminal philosophical work by Johann Gottlieb Fichte that systematically develops a theory of law, rights, and the state grounded in his transcendental idealism.
  • D. Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition
    Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition is a scholarly work by Norberto Bobbio that analyzes Hobbes’s political philosophy within the framework of natural law theory.
  • E. Commentaries on Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae
    Commentaries on Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae are influential theological and philosophical lectures by Francisco de Vitoria that helped shape early modern scholasticism and Catholic thought.
  • 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: Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory
Triple: [John Finnis, notableWork, Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory]
Generated description
Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory is a major philosophical study by John Finnis that systematically interprets and defends Thomas Aquinas’s views on ethics, politics, and law within the framework of contemporary natural law theory.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory
Target entity description: Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory is a major philosophical study by John Finnis that systematically interprets and defends Thomas Aquinas’s views on ethics, politics, and law within the framework of contemporary natural law theory.
  • A. The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas
    The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas is a major 20th-century study by Étienne Gilson that systematically presents and interprets the philosophical thought of Thomas Aquinas within its Christian theological context.
  • B. Principles of Moral and Political Science
    Principles of Moral and Political Science is an influential late-18th-century treatise by Scottish Enlightenment thinker Adam Ferguson that explores the foundations of ethics, civil society, and political order.
  • C. Foundations of Natural Right
    Foundations of Natural Right is a seminal philosophical work by Johann Gottlieb Fichte that systematically develops a theory of law, rights, and the state grounded in his transcendental idealism.
  • D. Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition
    Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition is a scholarly work by Norberto Bobbio that analyzes Hobbes’s political philosophy within the framework of natural law theory.
  • E. Commentaries on Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae
    Commentaries on Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae are influential theological and philosophical lectures by Francisco de Vitoria that helped shape early modern scholasticism and Catholic thought.
  • 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_69ca829b45f481909040f7b99a1976ed completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb53ba1ac8190ba655133b81596d7 completed April 2, 2026, 12:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d20dd82edc8190b405a3969864af77 completed April 5, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d20ed1f69c819099faa881a9a4368d completed April 5, 2026, 7:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d212e3b864819092b8464f5a5ab696 completed April 5, 2026, 7:44 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:41 p.m.