Triple

T19973693
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Diogenes of Apollonia E493631 entity
Predicate workStatus P127 FINISHED
Object On Nature is extant only in fragments
"On Nature" is a lost philosophical treatise by the pre-Socratic thinker Diogenes of Apollonia, surviving only in fragmentary form and known for its cosmological and naturalistic doctrines.
E1404186 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: On Nature is extant only in fragments | Statement: [Diogenes of Apollonia, workStatus, On Nature is extant only in fragments]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: On Nature is extant only in fragments
Context triple: [Diogenes of Apollonia, workStatus, On Nature is extant only in fragments]
  • A. On Nature is lost
    "On Nature" is a lost philosophical treatise attributed to the pre-Socratic Greek thinker Anaximenes of Miletus, in which he likely expounded his cosmological theories about air as the fundamental principle of the universe.
  • B. On Nature or On What Is
    "On Nature or On What Is" is a philosophical treatise by the Eleatic thinker Melissus of Samos that argues for the eternal, unchanging, and indivisible nature of reality.
  • C. On Nature
    On Nature is a lost philosophical treatise by the ancient Greek sophist Gorgias, known primarily through reports and fragments that present a radical skeptical argument about existence, knowledge, and communication.
  • D. On Nature
    On Nature is a lost philosophical poem by Xenophanes of Colophon that critiqued traditional Greek religion and advanced early ideas about a single, rational god and the nature of reality.
  • E. On Nature
    On Nature is a lost philosophical treatise by the pre-Socratic thinker Anaxagoras that outlined his cosmology, including the role of Mind (Nous) in ordering the 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: On Nature is extant only in fragments
Triple: [Diogenes of Apollonia, workStatus, On Nature is extant only in fragments]
Generated description
"On Nature" is a lost philosophical treatise by the pre-Socratic thinker Diogenes of Apollonia, surviving only in fragmentary form and known for its cosmological and naturalistic doctrines.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: On Nature is extant only in fragments
Target entity description: "On Nature" is a lost philosophical treatise by the pre-Socratic thinker Diogenes of Apollonia, surviving only in fragmentary form and known for its cosmological and naturalistic doctrines.
  • A. On Nature is lost
    "On Nature" is a lost philosophical treatise attributed to the pre-Socratic Greek thinker Anaximenes of Miletus, in which he likely expounded his cosmological theories about air as the fundamental principle of the universe.
  • B. On Nature or On What Is
    "On Nature or On What Is" is a philosophical treatise by the Eleatic thinker Melissus of Samos that argues for the eternal, unchanging, and indivisible nature of reality.
  • C. On Nature
    On Nature is a lost philosophical treatise by the ancient Greek sophist Gorgias, known primarily through reports and fragments that present a radical skeptical argument about existence, knowledge, and communication.
  • D. On Nature
    On Nature is a lost philosophical poem by Xenophanes of Colophon that critiqued traditional Greek religion and advanced early ideas about a single, rational god and the nature of reality.
  • E. On Nature
    On Nature is a philosophical work, traditionally attributed to the pre-Socratic thinker Empedocles, that expounds his cosmological and physical theories about the composition and processes of the 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_69da626a67648190af9653832a3aeced completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e65bcb72048190aedb4f085ace0493 completed April 20, 2026, 5 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07fdd7a0d08190b85dcc29c28eb7bd completed May 16, 2026, 5:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07feb28eec81908a8e33a706cf9d9b completed May 16, 2026, 5:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07ff2e34608190a27995f6400c153a completed May 16, 2026, 5:22 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 3:17 p.m.