Triple

T14984315
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Philoponus E373661 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object John Buridan
John Buridan was a 14th-century French philosopher and logician best known for developing the theory of impetus, which anticipated aspects of modern inertia and significantly influenced late medieval natural philosophy.
E1130470 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: John Buridan | Statement: [John Philoponus, influenced, John Buridan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Buridan
Context triple: [John Philoponus, influenced, John Buridan]
  • A. William of Champeaux
    William of Champeaux was a prominent early 12th-century French philosopher and theologian, known as a leading realist in medieval scholasticism and an influential teacher in Paris.
  • B. William of Ockham
    William of Ockham was a 14th-century English Franciscan friar, scholastic philosopher, and theologian best known for formulating the principle of parsimony in reasoning later called Occam's razor.
  • C. Duns Scotus
    Duns Scotus was a medieval Franciscan theologian and philosopher known for his subtle metaphysical thought and for formulating a key defense of the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception.
  • D. Nicolas Grenon
    Nicolas Grenon was an early 15th-century French composer associated with the Burgundian musical tradition, known for his sacred and secular polyphonic works.
  • E. Jacques Cujas
    Jacques Cujas was a renowned 16th-century French legal scholar and leading humanist jurist whose work on Roman law profoundly influenced European legal thought.
  • 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: John Buridan
Triple: [John Philoponus, influenced, John Buridan]
Generated description
John Buridan was a 14th-century French philosopher and logician best known for developing the theory of impetus, which anticipated aspects of modern inertia and significantly influenced late medieval natural philosophy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Buridan
Target entity description: John Buridan was a 14th-century French philosopher and logician best known for developing the theory of impetus, which anticipated aspects of modern inertia and significantly influenced late medieval natural philosophy.
  • A. William of Champeaux
    William of Champeaux was a prominent early 12th-century French philosopher and theologian, known as a leading realist in medieval scholasticism and an influential teacher in Paris.
  • B. William of Ockham
    William of Ockham was a 14th-century English Franciscan friar, scholastic philosopher, and theologian best known for formulating the principle of parsimony in reasoning later called Occam's razor.
  • C. Duns Scotus
    Duns Scotus was a medieval Franciscan theologian and philosopher known for his subtle metaphysical thought and for formulating a key defense of the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception.
  • D. Nicolas Grenon
    Nicolas Grenon was an early 15th-century French composer associated with the Burgundian musical tradition, known for his sacred and secular polyphonic works.
  • E. Jacques Cujas
    Jacques Cujas was a renowned 16th-century French legal scholar and leading humanist jurist whose work on Roman law profoundly influenced European legal thought.
  • 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_69d85ccc84388190aa151e5173370c8d completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded6ff4a7c8190ab7554f3a1a09b67 completed April 15, 2026, 12:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe8bf136e88190b3d812f50233c640 completed May 9, 2026, 1:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe908c25c88190be07a8e12a5cd70b completed May 9, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe9136938081908290c0dfbf140c63 completed May 9, 2026, 1:43 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 2:52 a.m.