Triple

T16767110
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hans Vaihinger E407493 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Philosophy of "As If"
The Philosophy of "As If" is Hans Vaihinger’s influential philosophical work arguing that humans rely on consciously fictive assumptions—ideas treated as if they were true—to navigate and make sense of reality.
E1231963 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: The Philosophy of "As If" | Statement: [Hans Vaihinger, notableWork, The Philosophy of "As If"]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Philosophy of "As If"
Context triple: [Hans Vaihinger, notableWork, The Philosophy of "As If"]
  • A. How to Philosophize with a Hammer
    How to Philosophize with a Hammer is the provocative subtitle of Friedrich Nietzsche’s work *Twilight of the Idols*, encapsulating his method of critically testing and shattering traditional moral and philosophical “idols.”
  • B. The Philosophy of the Act
    The Philosophy of the Act is a posthumously published collection of George Herbert Mead’s writings that develops his pragmatist and social behaviorist account of action, experience, and the emergence of mind.
  • C. Convention: A Philosophical Study
    Convention: A Philosophical Study is a landmark 1969 book by philosopher David Lewis that develops a formal account of social conventions using tools from game theory and modal logic.
  • D. The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
    The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener is a collection of essays in which Martin Gardner explores and defends his views on philosophy, religion, and rational inquiry with his characteristic clarity and wit.
  • E. The Philosophy of the Present
    The Philosophy of the Present is a posthumously published collection of lectures and essays by American pragmatist philosopher George Herbert Mead that explores the nature of time, experience, and social reality.
  • 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: The Philosophy of "As If"
Triple: [Hans Vaihinger, notableWork, The Philosophy of "As If"]
Generated description
The Philosophy of "As If" is Hans Vaihinger’s influential philosophical work arguing that humans rely on consciously fictive assumptions—ideas treated as if they were true—to navigate and make sense of reality.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Philosophy of "As If"
Target entity description: The Philosophy of "As If" is Hans Vaihinger’s influential philosophical work arguing that humans rely on consciously fictive assumptions—ideas treated as if they were true—to navigate and make sense of reality.
  • A. How to Philosophize with a Hammer
    How to Philosophize with a Hammer is the provocative subtitle of Friedrich Nietzsche’s work *Twilight of the Idols*, encapsulating his method of critically testing and shattering traditional moral and philosophical “idols.”
  • B. The Philosophy of the Act
    The Philosophy of the Act is a posthumously published collection of George Herbert Mead’s writings that develops his pragmatist and social behaviorist account of action, experience, and the emergence of mind.
  • C. Convention: A Philosophical Study
    Convention: A Philosophical Study is a landmark 1969 book by philosopher David Lewis that develops a formal account of social conventions using tools from game theory and modal logic.
  • D. The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
    The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener is a collection of essays in which Martin Gardner explores and defends his views on philosophy, religion, and rational inquiry with his characteristic clarity and wit.
  • E. The Philosophy of the Present
    The Philosophy of the Present is a posthumously published collection of lectures and essays by American pragmatist philosopher George Herbert Mead that explores the nature of time, experience, and social reality.
  • 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_69d8839174188190909f190097207065 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3b033d6b88190a1366a58d63b0546 completed April 18, 2026, 4:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00a531ea7c81908630f16f6c685d49 completed May 10, 2026, 3:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00a5b3ce848190a73f06d9708bfc85 completed May 10, 2026, 3:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00a6734d008190bb0a5aa28826e73a completed May 10, 2026, 3:38 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:21 a.m.