Triple

T1489073
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William James E29534 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Essays in Radical Empiricism
Essays in Radical Empiricism is a posthumously published collection of philosophical writings by William James that develops his influential doctrine of radical empiricism, emphasizing the primacy of experience and relations in understanding reality.
E171000 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: Essays in Radical Empiricism | Statement: [William James, notableWork, Essays in Radical Empiricism]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Essays in Radical Empiricism
Context triple: [William James, notableWork, Essays in Radical Empiricism]
  • A. “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”
    “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” is a landmark philosophical essay that challenges the analytic–synthetic distinction and reductionism, reshaping 20th-century debates in epistemology and the philosophy of language.
  • B. The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge
    The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge is a 1940 philosophical work by A. J. Ayer that defends logical empiricism by critically examining sense-data theories and the justification of empirical beliefs.
  • C. The Refutation of Idealism
    The Refutation of Idealism is a 1903 philosophical essay by G. E. Moore that famously challenges the doctrine that reality is fundamentally mental, helping to launch the tradition of analytic philosophy.
  • D. Phenomenology of Mind
    Phenomenology of Mind is the English title of G. W. F. Hegel’s seminal philosophical work that traces the development of human consciousness, self-awareness, and reason toward absolute knowledge.
  • E. On Certainty
    On Certainty is a posthumously published collection of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s late philosophical notes that investigates the nature of knowledge, doubt, and foundational “hinge” propositions.
  • 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: Essays in Radical Empiricism
Triple: [William James, notableWork, Essays in Radical Empiricism]
Generated description
Essays in Radical Empiricism is a posthumously published collection of philosophical writings by William James that develops his influential doctrine of radical empiricism, emphasizing the primacy of experience and relations in understanding reality.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Essays in Radical Empiricism
Target entity description: Essays in Radical Empiricism is a posthumously published collection of philosophical writings by William James that develops his influential doctrine of radical empiricism, emphasizing the primacy of experience and relations in understanding reality.
  • A. “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”
    “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” is a landmark philosophical essay that challenges the analytic–synthetic distinction and reductionism, reshaping 20th-century debates in epistemology and the philosophy of language.
  • B. The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge
    The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge is a 1940 philosophical work by A. J. Ayer that defends logical empiricism by critically examining sense-data theories and the justification of empirical beliefs.
  • C. The Refutation of Idealism
    The Refutation of Idealism is a 1903 philosophical essay by G. E. Moore that famously challenges the doctrine that reality is fundamentally mental, helping to launch the tradition of analytic philosophy.
  • D. Phenomenology of Mind
    Phenomenology of Mind is the English title of G. W. F. Hegel’s seminal philosophical work that traces the development of human consciousness, self-awareness, and reason toward absolute knowledge.
  • E. On Certainty
    On Certainty is a posthumously published collection of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s late philosophical notes that investigates the nature of knowledge, doubt, and foundational “hinge” propositions.
  • 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.