Triple

T12044357
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Blue Book E286746 entity
Predicate periodOfWork P7950 FINISHED
Object Wittgenstein's middle period
Wittgenstein's middle period is the phase of his philosophy between the Tractatus and the Philosophical Investigations, marked by transitional explorations of language and meaning that significantly reshaped his earlier views.
E960840 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: Wittgenstein's middle period | Statement: [The Blue Book, periodOfWork, Wittgenstein's middle period]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wittgenstein's middle period
Context triple: [The Blue Book, periodOfWork, Wittgenstein's middle period]
  • A. Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language
    Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language is Saul Kripke’s influential interpretation of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, especially concerning rule-following, meaning, and the possibility of a private language.
  • B. Wittgenstein’s notebooks
    Wittgenstein’s notebooks are the private philosophical journals in which Ludwig Wittgenstein developed many of the ideas that later appeared in his published works, including the reflections posthumously collected in "Culture and Value."
  • C. Wittgenstein and the Possibility of Discourse
    "Wittgenstein and the Possibility of Discourse" is a philosophical work by Rush Rhees that explores Ludwig Wittgenstein’s views on language, meaning, and the conditions that make genuine discourse possible.
  • D. Philosophical Investigations
    Philosophical Investigations is a highly influential 20th-century work of philosophy that reshaped analytic philosophy through its exploration of language, meaning, and the limits of philosophical inquiry.
  • E. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
    Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is Ludwig Wittgenstein’s early 20th-century philosophical work that attempts to define the relationship between language, thought, and reality through a highly structured, logical framework.
  • 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: Wittgenstein's middle period
Triple: [The Blue Book, periodOfWork, Wittgenstein's middle period]
Generated description
Wittgenstein's middle period is the phase of his philosophy between the Tractatus and the Philosophical Investigations, marked by transitional explorations of language and meaning that significantly reshaped his earlier views.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wittgenstein's middle period
Target entity description: Wittgenstein's middle period is the phase of his philosophy between the Tractatus and the Philosophical Investigations, marked by transitional explorations of language and meaning that significantly reshaped his earlier views.
  • A. Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language
    Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language is Saul Kripke’s influential interpretation of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, especially concerning rule-following, meaning, and the possibility of a private language.
  • B. Wittgenstein’s notebooks
    Wittgenstein’s notebooks are the private philosophical journals in which Ludwig Wittgenstein developed many of the ideas that later appeared in his published works, including the reflections posthumously collected in "Culture and Value."
  • C. Wittgenstein and the Possibility of Discourse
    "Wittgenstein and the Possibility of Discourse" is a philosophical work by Rush Rhees that explores Ludwig Wittgenstein’s views on language, meaning, and the conditions that make genuine discourse possible.
  • D. Philosophical Investigations
    Philosophical Investigations is a highly influential 20th-century work of philosophy that reshaped analytic philosophy through its exploration of language, meaning, and the limits of philosophical inquiry.
  • E. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
    Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is Ludwig Wittgenstein’s early 20th-century philosophical work that attempts to define the relationship between language, thought, and reality through a highly structured, logical framework.
  • 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_69d6ab4780948190bdb9f7620c2ac27e completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9041fe3b0819094b82a6b17ac59c3 completed April 10, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f49db574bc8190a0f2f858a2ff788d completed May 1, 2026, 12:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f53d9460bc8190869f2b7d095d98cb completed May 1, 2026, 11:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f56505c0b481909f9caaf338f73033 completed May 2, 2026, 2:44 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:47 p.m.