Triple

T16801128
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Development of the Monist View of History E408354 entity
Predicate relatedWorkOfAuthor P922 FINISHED
Object In Defense of Materialism
In Defense of Materialism is a philosophical work that argues for a materialist understanding of reality and history, emphasizing the primacy of material conditions over idealist explanations.
E1232938 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: In Defense of Materialism | Statement: [The Development of the Monist View of History, relatedWorkOfAuthor, In Defense of Materialism]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: In Defense of Materialism
Context triple: [The Development of the Monist View of History, relatedWorkOfAuthor, In Defense of Materialism]
  • A. The Refutation of Idealism
    The Refutation of Idealism is a 1903 philosophical essay by G. E. Moore that famously challenges the doctrine that reality is fundamentally mental, helping to launch the tradition of analytic philosophy.
  • B. The Material Mind
    The Material Mind is a philosophical essay by Donald Davidson that explores the relationship between mental states and physical processes within his broader theory of mind and action.
  • C. "Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False"
    "Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False" is a controversial 2012 philosophical book by Thomas Nagel that challenges mainstream materialist and evolutionary explanations of mind, consciousness, and value.
  • D. History of Materialism
    History of Materialism is a seminal 19th-century philosophical work that critically examines the development of materialist thought from antiquity to modern science and its implications for metaphysics and epistemology.
  • E. The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World
    The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World is a philosophical book by Owen Flanagan that explores how meaning, morality, and purpose can arise within a purely naturalistic, scientifically understood universe.
  • 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: In Defense of Materialism
Triple: [The Development of the Monist View of History, relatedWorkOfAuthor, In Defense of Materialism]
Generated description
In Defense of Materialism is a philosophical work that argues for a materialist understanding of reality and history, emphasizing the primacy of material conditions over idealist explanations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: In Defense of Materialism
Target entity description: In Defense of Materialism is a philosophical work that argues for a materialist understanding of reality and history, emphasizing the primacy of material conditions over idealist explanations.
  • A. The Refutation of Idealism
    The Refutation of Idealism is a 1903 philosophical essay by G. E. Moore that famously challenges the doctrine that reality is fundamentally mental, helping to launch the tradition of analytic philosophy.
  • B. The Material Mind
    The Material Mind is a philosophical essay by Donald Davidson that explores the relationship between mental states and physical processes within his broader theory of mind and action.
  • C. "Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False"
    "Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False" is a controversial 2012 philosophical book by Thomas Nagel that challenges mainstream materialist and evolutionary explanations of mind, consciousness, and value.
  • D. History of Materialism
    History of Materialism is a seminal 19th-century philosophical work that critically examines the development of materialist thought from antiquity to modern science and its implications for metaphysics and epistemology.
  • E. The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World
    The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World is a philosophical book by Owen Flanagan that explores how meaning, morality, and purpose can arise within a purely naturalistic, scientifically understood universe.
  • 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_69d88393905081908d00a86b99996ac8 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3b2c826808190aa0a5bfcde2e49a8 completed April 18, 2026, 4:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00ab1598dc81909fa5118e739a3291 completed May 10, 2026, 3:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00ab7a9b448190bdaf460bbe5f8c2b completed May 10, 2026, 3:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00abf09fe4819082ee0c6c6f702822 completed May 10, 2026, 4:01 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:22 a.m.