Triple

T19307409
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Hill Burton E482871 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Life and Correspondence of David Hume
Life and Correspondence of David Hume is a biographical work by John Hill Burton that chronicles the life, writings, and personal letters of the Scottish philosopher David Hume.
E1369168 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: Life and Correspondence of David Hume | Statement: [John Hill Burton, notableWork, Life and Correspondence of David Hume]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Life and Correspondence of David Hume
Context triple: [John Hill Burton, notableWork, Life and Correspondence of David Hume]
  • A. "The Philosophy of David Hume"
    "The Philosophy of David Hume" is a landmark scholarly study in which Norman Kemp Smith offers an influential and systematic interpretation of Hume’s philosophy, especially his theory of knowledge and metaphysics.
  • B. Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
    Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is a biographical work by Diogenes Laërtius that compiles the lives, doctrines, and anecdotes of ancient Greek philosophers.
  • C. David Hume über den Glauben, oder Idealismus und Realismus
    "David Hume über den Glauben, oder Idealismus und Realismus" is a philosophical work by Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi in which he critically engages with David Hume’s skepticism and explores the tension between idealism, realism, and religious belief.
  • D. An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense
    An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense is an influential 1764 philosophical treatise by Thomas Reid that lays the foundations of Scottish Common Sense Realism in opposition to the skepticism of thinkers like David Hume.
  • E. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a seminal philosophical work by David Hume that critically examines the nature and limits of human knowledge, especially our beliefs about causation, induction, and miracles.
  • 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: Life and Correspondence of David Hume
Triple: [John Hill Burton, notableWork, Life and Correspondence of David Hume]
Generated description
Life and Correspondence of David Hume is a biographical work by John Hill Burton that chronicles the life, writings, and personal letters of the Scottish philosopher David Hume.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Life and Correspondence of David Hume
Target entity description: Life and Correspondence of David Hume is a biographical work by John Hill Burton that chronicles the life, writings, and personal letters of the Scottish philosopher David Hume.
  • A. "The Philosophy of David Hume"
    "The Philosophy of David Hume" is a landmark scholarly study in which Norman Kemp Smith offers an influential and systematic interpretation of Hume’s philosophy, especially his theory of knowledge and metaphysics.
  • B. Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
    Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is a biographical work by Diogenes Laërtius that compiles the lives, doctrines, and anecdotes of ancient Greek philosophers.
  • C. David Hume über den Glauben, oder Idealismus und Realismus
    "David Hume über den Glauben, oder Idealismus und Realismus" is a philosophical work by Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi in which he critically engages with David Hume’s skepticism and explores the tension between idealism, realism, and religious belief.
  • D. An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense
    An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense is an influential 1764 philosophical treatise by Thomas Reid that lays the foundations of Scottish Common Sense Realism in opposition to the skepticism of thinkers like David Hume.
  • E. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a seminal philosophical work by David Hume that critically examines the nature and limits of human knowledge, especially our beliefs about causation, induction, and miracles.
  • 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_69d8e8d04d5c8190baa816986f2b1d1e completed April 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e604ca81e88190a276064f5f8dfd3a completed April 20, 2026, 10:49 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07145b6e008190b92a883175c5fc2c completed May 15, 2026, 12:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a071539637081909eb54bc2553c47b9 completed May 15, 2026, 12:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07161b27e4819088745c7f1c169416 completed May 15, 2026, 12:48 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:32 p.m.