Triple

T11850449
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kit Fine E281892 entity
Predicate hasWritten P2831 FINISHED
Object “Things in Themselves”
“Things in Themselves” is a philosophical work by Kit Fine that develops a distinctive metaphysical account of reality and objects as they are independently of our representations.
E949475 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: “Things in Themselves” | Statement: [Kit Fine, hasWritten, “Things in Themselves”]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “Things in Themselves”
Context triple: [Kit Fine, hasWritten, “Things in Themselves”]
  • A. “On What There Is”
    “On What There Is” is a seminal philosophical essay by W.V.O. Quine that challenges traditional notions of ontology and argues for a criterion of ontological commitment based on the quantificational structure of our best scientific theories.
  • B. The Way Things Are
    "The Way Things Are" is a track from Fiona Apple's album *When the Pawn...*, showcasing her introspective lyrics and distinctive piano-driven alternative style.
  • C. “Truth and Meaning”
    “Truth and Meaning” is a seminal philosophical essay by Michael Dummett that develops a theory of meaning grounded in the conditions for a sentence’s truth.
  • D. “Of Experience”
    “Of Experience” is the final and one of the most reflective essays in Michel de Montaigne’s *Essays*, in which he meditates on the limits of human knowledge and the primacy of lived, personal experience.
  • E. Reflections on Things at Hand
    Reflections on Things at Hand is a classic Neo-Confucian anthology of philosophical writings and commentaries, traditionally attributed to Zhu Xi and his collaborators, that systematizes moral and metaphysical teachings for scholarly self-cultivation.
  • 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: “Things in Themselves”
Triple: [Kit Fine, hasWritten, “Things in Themselves”]
Generated description
“Things in Themselves” is a philosophical work by Kit Fine that develops a distinctive metaphysical account of reality and objects as they are independently of our representations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “Things in Themselves”
Target entity description: “Things in Themselves” is a philosophical work by Kit Fine that develops a distinctive metaphysical account of reality and objects as they are independently of our representations.
  • A. “On What There Is”
    “On What There Is” is a seminal philosophical essay by W.V.O. Quine that challenges traditional notions of ontology and argues for a criterion of ontological commitment based on the quantificational structure of our best scientific theories.
  • B. The Way Things Are
    "The Way Things Are" is a track from Fiona Apple's album *When the Pawn...*, showcasing her introspective lyrics and distinctive piano-driven alternative style.
  • C. “Truth and Meaning”
    “Truth and Meaning” is a seminal philosophical essay by Michael Dummett that develops a theory of meaning grounded in the conditions for a sentence’s truth.
  • D. “Of Experience”
    “Of Experience” is the final and one of the most reflective essays in Michel de Montaigne’s *Essays*, in which he meditates on the limits of human knowledge and the primacy of lived, personal experience.
  • E. Reflections on Things at Hand
    Reflections on Things at Hand is a classic Neo-Confucian anthology of philosophical writings and commentaries, traditionally attributed to Zhu Xi and his collaborators, that systematizes moral and metaphysical teachings for scholarly self-cultivation.
  • 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_69d6ab287ba48190a5178779fd19b9b7 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a65db52c8190a218736da17d0153 completed April 10, 2026, 7:27 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f167b947d48190a07da6f5255d289a completed April 29, 2026, 2:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f17005c318819090e54bc64d135477 completed April 29, 2026, 2:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f17814de1881908973af026af5d1d1 completed April 29, 2026, 3:16 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:43 p.m.