Triple

T1489063
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William James E29534 entity
Predicate movement P81 FINISHED
Object pragmatism
Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition, prominently developed by William James, that evaluates ideas and beliefs primarily by their practical consequences and usefulness in experience.
E170995 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: pragmatism | Statement: [William James, movement, pragmatism]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: pragmatism
Context triple: [William James, movement, pragmatism]
  • A. logical positivism
    Logical positivism is a 20th-century philosophical movement that emphasizes the verification of statements through empirical observation and logical analysis, rejecting metaphysics as cognitively meaningless.
  • B. Cours de philosophie positive
    Cours de philosophie positive is Auguste Comte’s foundational multi-volume work that systematically presents his philosophy of positivism and the hierarchy of the sciences.
  • C. Empiricism
    Empiricism is a philosophical doctrine that holds that all or most human knowledge arises from sensory experience rather than innate ideas or pure reason.
  • D. Humanism
    Humanism is an intellectual and cultural movement that emphasizes the value, agency, and rational capacities of human beings, drawing inspiration from classical antiquity and focusing on secular learning and individual potential.
  • E. PHL
    PHL is the three-letter IATA airport code for Philadelphia International Airport, the primary commercial airport serving the Philadelphia metropolitan area in Pennsylvania, USA.
  • 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: pragmatism
Triple: [William James, movement, pragmatism]
Generated description
Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition, prominently developed by William James, that evaluates ideas and beliefs primarily by their practical consequences and usefulness in experience.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: pragmatism
Target entity description: Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition, prominently developed by William James, that evaluates ideas and beliefs primarily by their practical consequences and usefulness in experience.
  • A. logical positivism
    Logical positivism is a 20th-century philosophical movement that emphasizes the verification of statements through empirical observation and logical analysis, rejecting metaphysics as cognitively meaningless.
  • B. Cours de philosophie positive
    Cours de philosophie positive is Auguste Comte’s foundational multi-volume work that systematically presents his philosophy of positivism and the hierarchy of the sciences.
  • C. Empiricism
    Empiricism is a philosophical doctrine that holds that all or most human knowledge arises from sensory experience rather than innate ideas or pure reason.
  • D. Humanism
    Humanism is an intellectual and cultural movement that emphasizes the value, agency, and rational capacities of human beings, drawing inspiration from classical antiquity and focusing on secular learning and individual potential.
  • E. PHL
    PHL is the three-letter IATA airport code for Philadelphia International Airport, the primary commercial airport serving the Philadelphia metropolitan area in Pennsylvania, USA.
  • 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_69a498da82e08190ba833330d05f380f completed March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c6a6095481909e9d406ac9a41828 completed March 1, 2026, 11:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad1ca7804c8190b6818ff344908028 completed March 8, 2026, 6:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad1cfdd8788190b3c9f6e0d49ec350 completed March 8, 2026, 6:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad1d75f4f8819090c397a4b2d3f839 completed March 8, 2026, 6:55 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:12 p.m.