Triple

T16368264
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Charles Johnson E397491 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Taming the Ox: Buddhist Stories and Reflections on Politics, Race, Culture, and Spiritual Practice
Taming the Ox: Buddhist Stories and Reflections on Politics, Race, Culture, and Spiritual Practice is a collection of essays and narratives by Charles Johnson that weaves Buddhist philosophy with incisive commentary on social justice, identity, and contemporary American life.
E1209216 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: Taming the Ox: Buddhist Stories and Reflections on Politics, Race, Culture, and Spiritual Practice | Statement: [Charles Johnson, notableWork, Taming the Ox: Buddhist Stories and Reflections on Politics, Race, Culture, and Spiritual Practice]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Taming the Ox: Buddhist Stories and Reflections on Politics, Race, Culture, and Spiritual Practice
Context triple: [Charles Johnson, notableWork, Taming the Ox: Buddhist Stories and Reflections on Politics, Race, Culture, and Spiritual Practice]
  • A. The Buddha’s Quest for Knowledge
    "The Buddha’s Quest for Knowledge" is a chapter that explores how the Buddha’s spiritual journey and methods of inquiry resonate with and illuminate modern scientific approaches to understanding reality.
  • B. Engaged Buddhism
    Engaged Buddhism is a modern Buddhist movement that applies Buddhist teachings and practices to social, political, and environmental activism and reform.
  • C. The Bodhisattva’s Brain
    The Bodhisattva’s Brain is a philosophical book by Owen Flanagan that explores how Buddhist conceptions of the mind and ethics can be understood through the lens of contemporary cognitive science and naturalism.
  • D. Buddha’s flower sermon and silent smile
    Buddha’s flower sermon and silent smile is a foundational Zen Buddhist legend in which the Buddha wordlessly holds up a flower, and only Mahākāśyapa’s knowing smile signifies the direct, non-verbal transmission of enlightened insight.
  • E. Avalokiteśvara as hearer of the world’s cries
    Avalokiteśvara as hearer of the world’s cries is a compassionate bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism who attentively listens to the suffering of all beings and responds with mercy and aid.
  • 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: Taming the Ox: Buddhist Stories and Reflections on Politics, Race, Culture, and Spiritual Practice
Triple: [Charles Johnson, notableWork, Taming the Ox: Buddhist Stories and Reflections on Politics, Race, Culture, and Spiritual Practice]
Generated description
Taming the Ox: Buddhist Stories and Reflections on Politics, Race, Culture, and Spiritual Practice is a collection of essays and narratives by Charles Johnson that weaves Buddhist philosophy with incisive commentary on social justice, identity, and contemporary American life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Taming the Ox: Buddhist Stories and Reflections on Politics, Race, Culture, and Spiritual Practice
Target entity description: Taming the Ox: Buddhist Stories and Reflections on Politics, Race, Culture, and Spiritual Practice is a collection of essays and narratives by Charles Johnson that weaves Buddhist philosophy with incisive commentary on social justice, identity, and contemporary American life.
  • A. The Buddha’s Quest for Knowledge
    "The Buddha’s Quest for Knowledge" is a chapter that explores how the Buddha’s spiritual journey and methods of inquiry resonate with and illuminate modern scientific approaches to understanding reality.
  • B. Engaged Buddhism
    Engaged Buddhism is a modern Buddhist movement that applies Buddhist teachings and practices to social, political, and environmental activism and reform.
  • C. The Bodhisattva’s Brain
    The Bodhisattva’s Brain is a philosophical book by Owen Flanagan that explores how Buddhist conceptions of the mind and ethics can be understood through the lens of contemporary cognitive science and naturalism.
  • D. Buddha’s flower sermon and silent smile
    Buddha’s flower sermon and silent smile is a foundational Zen Buddhist legend in which the Buddha wordlessly holds up a flower, and only Mahākāśyapa’s knowing smile signifies the direct, non-verbal transmission of enlightened insight.
  • E. Avalokiteśvara as hearer of the world’s cries
    Avalokiteśvara as hearer of the world’s cries is a compassionate bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism who attentively listens to the suffering of all beings and responds with mercy and aid.
  • 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_69d87f2778dc8190aa95c7572db127e6 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e2ff3f0694819097faa1c1447a9e97 completed April 18, 2026, 3:49 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a002dc29f088190ba5d69ff3c12a251 completed May 10, 2026, 7:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a002ec2fd948190878af958d0b90ce6 completed May 10, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00312a4fc48190b6bd6ad9db71bb4d completed May 10, 2026, 7:18 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:08 a.m.