Triple

T3072691
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Robert Nozick E64060 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Examined Life
The Examined Life is a philosophical book by Robert Nozick that reflects on ethical, personal, and existential questions in an accessible, essayistic style.
 E325287 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 Examined Life | Statement: [Robert Nozick, notableWork, The Examined Life]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Examined Life
Context triple: [Robert Nozick, notableWork, The Examined Life]
  • A. Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
    Passages from the Life of a Philosopher is an autobiographical work by Charles Babbage in which he recounts his life, scientific pursuits, and the development of his pioneering calculating machines.
  • B. Sokratische Denkwürdigkeiten
    Sokratische Denkwürdigkeiten is a philosophical work by Johann Georg Hamann that reflects his critique of Enlightenment rationalism through Socratic-style reflections and aphorisms.
  • C. The Conduct of Life
    The Conduct of Life is a collection of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson that explores practical and philosophical questions about how to live ethically and purposefully in the modern world.
  • D. Excursion into Philosophy
    Excursion into Philosophy is a 1959 oil painting by American realist artist Edward Hopper that depicts a contemplative, solitary figure in a sparsely furnished interior, evoking themes of isolation and introspection.
  • E. The Life of the Mind
    The Life of the Mind is a posthumously published philosophical work by Hannah Arendt that explores the nature of thinking, willing, and judging as fundamental activities of human consciousness.
  • 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 Examined Life
Triple: [Robert Nozick, notableWork, The Examined Life]
Generated description
The Examined Life is a philosophical book by Robert Nozick that reflects on ethical, personal, and existential questions in an accessible, essayistic style.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Examined Life
Target entity description: The Examined Life is a philosophical book by Robert Nozick that reflects on ethical, personal, and existential questions in an accessible, essayistic style.
  • A. Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
    Passages from the Life of a Philosopher is an autobiographical work by Charles Babbage in which he recounts his life, scientific pursuits, and the development of his pioneering calculating machines.
  • B. Sokratische Denkwürdigkeiten
    Sokratische Denkwürdigkeiten is a philosophical work by Johann Georg Hamann that reflects his critique of Enlightenment rationalism through Socratic-style reflections and aphorisms.
  • C. The Conduct of Life
    The Conduct of Life is a collection of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson that explores practical and philosophical questions about how to live ethically and purposefully in the modern world.
  • D. Excursion into Philosophy
    Excursion into Philosophy is a 1959 oil painting by American realist artist Edward Hopper that depicts a contemplative, solitary figure in a sparsely furnished interior, evoking themes of isolation and introspection.
  • E. The Life of the Mind
    The Life of the Mind is a posthumously published philosophical work by Hannah Arendt that explores the nature of thinking, willing, and judging as fundamental activities of human consciousness.
  • 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_69ad857a8aec8190bfdfd9c14554ac5a completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada14e372c81908c25c7f3e7e0c864 completed March 8, 2026, 4:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b1f8828c488190877902a6c2dfcb5e completed March 11, 2026, 11:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1f930321081908f98aa5f9b8ba611 completed March 11, 2026, 11:22 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1f9ad0b148190b98f93699598dd1e completed March 11, 2026, 11:24 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:02 p.m.