Triple

T12578322
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lotus Sūtra E300266 entity
Predicate importantChapter P1887 FINISHED
Object The Life Span of the Tathāgata
The Life Span of the Tathāgata is a central chapter of the Lotus Sūtra that reveals the Buddha’s enlightenment as timeless and his existence as immeasurably long, transforming how his life and teachings are understood.
E989891 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 Life Span of the Tathāgata | Statement: [Lotus Sūtra, importantChapter, The Life Span of the Tathāgata]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Life Span of the Tathāgata
Context triple: [Lotus Sūtra, importantChapter, The Life Span of the Tathāgata]
  • A. Infinite Life Sūtra
    The Infinite Life Sūtra is a major Mahāyāna Buddhist scripture that expounds the vows and pure land of Amitābha Buddha, forming a foundational text of Pure Land Buddhism.
  • B. The Buddha and His Dhamma
    The Buddha and His Dhamma is a seminal 1957 book by B. R. Ambedkar that presents a rationalist, socially engaged reinterpretation of Buddhism, especially focused on its relevance for the oppressed in modern India.
  • C. Turning of the Wheel of Dharma
    Turning of the Wheel of Dharma refers to the Buddha’s first sermon at Sarnath, which inaugurated the formal teaching of Buddhism and set in motion the core doctrines of the Dharma.
  • D. Contemplation Sūtra
    The Contemplation Sūtra is a key Mahāyāna Pure Land scripture that details visualizations of Amitābha Buddha and his Western Paradise as a path to rebirth there.
  • E. Vajrasekhara Sutra
    The Vajrasekhara Sutra is a key esoteric Buddhist tantra that, together with the Mahavairocana Sutra, forms a primary doctrinal foundation for Shingon Buddhism’s ritual and cosmological system.
  • 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 Life Span of the Tathāgata
Triple: [Lotus Sūtra, importantChapter, The Life Span of the Tathāgata]
Generated description
The Life Span of the Tathāgata is a central chapter of the Lotus Sūtra that reveals the Buddha’s enlightenment as timeless and his existence as immeasurably long, transforming how his life and teachings are understood.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Life Span of the Tathāgata
Target entity description: The Life Span of the Tathāgata is a central chapter of the Lotus Sūtra that reveals the Buddha’s enlightenment as timeless and his existence as immeasurably long, transforming how his life and teachings are understood.
  • A. Infinite Life Sūtra
    The Infinite Life Sūtra is a major Mahāyāna Buddhist scripture that expounds the vows and pure land of Amitābha Buddha, forming a foundational text of Pure Land Buddhism.
  • B. The Buddha and His Dhamma
    The Buddha and His Dhamma is a seminal 1957 book by B. R. Ambedkar that presents a rationalist, socially engaged reinterpretation of Buddhism, especially focused on its relevance for the oppressed in modern India.
  • C. Turning of the Wheel of Dharma
    Turning of the Wheel of Dharma refers to the Buddha’s first sermon at Sarnath, which inaugurated the formal teaching of Buddhism and set in motion the core doctrines of the Dharma.
  • D. Contemplation Sūtra
    The Contemplation Sūtra is a key Mahāyāna Pure Land scripture that details visualizations of Amitābha Buddha and his Western Paradise as a path to rebirth there.
  • E. Vajrasekhara Sutra
    The Vajrasekhara Sutra is a key esoteric Buddhist tantra that, together with the Mahavairocana Sutra, forms a primary doctrinal foundation for Shingon Buddhism’s ritual and cosmological system.
  • 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_69d7bde87b648190bcd0266e9efde098 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d960c2e5b88190a7cc16002b218d8a completed April 10, 2026, 8:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f65599a9c0819086233fb2c622d243 completed May 2, 2026, 7:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f657299e54819093c9c2a6fa80f2eb completed May 2, 2026, 7:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f657f1ced08190a588642c7fa5efdd completed May 2, 2026, 8 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 4:55 p.m.