Triple

T15788362
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Problems of the Self E382797 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object essay "The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality"
"The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality" is a philosophical essay by Bernard Williams that argues human immortality would ultimately be intolerably boring and undermine the conditions that make life meaningful.
E1100494 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: essay "The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality" | Statement: [Problems of the Self, hasPart, essay "The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality"]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: essay "The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality"
Context triple: [Problems of the Self, hasPart, essay "The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality"]
  • A. “A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality”
    “A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality” is a philosophical work by John Perry that explores questions about what makes a person the same over time and whether personal identity can persist after death.
  • B. The Makropulos Affair
    The Makropulos Affair is a 1922 play by Czech writer Karel Čapek that explores the psychological and moral consequences of human immortality through the story of a woman who has lived for over 300 years.
  • C. Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment
    Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of aging, folly, and the human inability to learn from past mistakes through a macabre scientific test of a supposed elixir of youth.
  • D. The Birth-Mark
    "The Birth-Mark" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of obsession, perfection, and the dangers of scientific hubris through a scientist's fixation on removing a small flaw from his wife's face.
  • E. A Fable for Critics
    A Fable for Critics is a satirical poem by James Russell Lowell that humorously critiques and caricatures his contemporary American authors and the literary scene of his time.
  • 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: essay "The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality"
Triple: [Problems of the Self, hasPart, essay "The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality"]
Generated description
"The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality" is a philosophical essay by Bernard Williams that argues human immortality would ultimately be intolerably boring and undermine the conditions that make life meaningful.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: essay "The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality"
Target entity description: "The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality" is a philosophical essay by Bernard Williams that argues human immortality would ultimately be intolerably boring and undermine the conditions that make life meaningful.
  • A. “A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality”
    “A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality” is a philosophical work by John Perry that explores questions about what makes a person the same over time and whether personal identity can persist after death.
  • B. The Makropulos Affair chosen
    The Makropulos Affair is a 1922 play by Czech writer Karel Čapek that explores the psychological and moral consequences of human immortality through the story of a woman who has lived for over 300 years.
  • C. Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment
    Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of aging, folly, and the human inability to learn from past mistakes through a macabre scientific test of a supposed elixir of youth.
  • D. The Birth-Mark
    "The Birth-Mark" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of obsession, perfection, and the dangers of scientific hubris through a scientist's fixation on removing a small flaw from his wife's face.
  • E. A Fable for Critics
    A Fable for Critics is a satirical poem by James Russell Lowell that humorously critiques and caricatures his contemporary American authors and the literary scene of his time.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d86da16e188190b89af699f1ed0bfe completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e054048ff48190ad107c890ef73166 completed April 16, 2026, 3:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff90a6365c8190833431cf079b21fb completed May 9, 2026, 7:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff916638048190ad4a6c85da9cef9d completed May 9, 2026, 7:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff91cf6f7c81908361f85c9a98ae80 completed May 9, 2026, 7:58 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:48 a.m.