Triple

T1667541
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Principles of Sociology E36046 entity
Predicate partOf P40 FINISHED
Object Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy
Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy is a comprehensive 19th-century philosophical system that applies evolutionary principles to explain the development of the cosmos, life, mind, society, and morality in a unified framework.
E188024 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: Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy | Statement: [The Principles of Sociology, partOf, Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy
Context triple: [The Principles of Sociology, partOf, Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy]
  • A. Herbert Spencer
    Herbert Spencer was a 19th-century English philosopher and sociologist best known for applying evolutionary theory to social and ethical issues and popularizing the concept of "survival of the fittest."
  • B. Bergsonianism
    Bergsonianism is a philosophical movement based on Henri Bergson’s ideas about intuition, duration, and creative evolution, which significantly influenced thinkers such as Georges Sorel.
  • C. Course of Positive Philosophy
    Course of Positive Philosophy is Auguste Comte’s foundational multi-volume work that systematically outlines positivism and the hierarchy of the sciences, laying the groundwork for modern sociology.
  • D. Section I Of the Different Species of Philosophy
    "Section I Of the Different Species of Philosophy" is the opening section of David Hume’s *An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding*, in which he distinguishes between different kinds of philosophical inquiry and their respective aims and methods.
  • E. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences
    The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences is William Whewell’s major 19th-century work in the philosophy of science, elaborating a systematic account of scientific method and the role of induction in the development of scientific knowledge.
  • 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: Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy
Triple: [The Principles of Sociology, partOf, Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy]
Generated description
Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy is a comprehensive 19th-century philosophical system that applies evolutionary principles to explain the development of the cosmos, life, mind, society, and morality in a unified framework.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy
Target entity description: Herbert Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy is a comprehensive 19th-century philosophical system that applies evolutionary principles to explain the development of the cosmos, life, mind, society, and morality in a unified framework.
  • A. Herbert Spencer
    Herbert Spencer was a 19th-century English philosopher and sociologist best known for applying evolutionary theory to social and ethical issues and popularizing the concept of "survival of the fittest."
  • B. Bergsonianism
    Bergsonianism is a philosophical movement based on Henri Bergson’s ideas about intuition, duration, and creative evolution, which significantly influenced thinkers such as Georges Sorel.
  • C. Course of Positive Philosophy
    Course of Positive Philosophy is Auguste Comte’s foundational multi-volume work that systematically outlines positivism and the hierarchy of the sciences, laying the groundwork for modern sociology.
  • D. Section I Of the Different Species of Philosophy
    "Section I Of the Different Species of Philosophy" is the opening section of David Hume’s *An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding*, in which he distinguishes between different kinds of philosophical inquiry and their respective aims and methods.
  • E. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences
    The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences is William Whewell’s major 19th-century work in the philosophy of science, elaborating a systematic account of scientific method and the role of induction in the development of scientific knowledge.
  • 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_69a8861286808190939afff3ce8ee31e completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa62d1261481909a01c8fe4ff7500d completed March 6, 2026, 5:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad683207b08190a86c266aaece4e98 completed March 8, 2026, 12:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad692a4078819080c3a89166917081 completed March 8, 2026, 12:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad698929f88190af97fc915d29a5b5 completed March 8, 2026, 12:20 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.