Triple

T3304631
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Poverty of Historicism E69416 entity
Predicate supports P516 FINISHED
Object critical rationalism
Critical rationalism is a philosophical approach, chiefly associated with Karl Popper, that holds scientific and rational progress occurs through bold conjectures and rigorous attempts at refutation rather than through justification or verification.
E69412 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: critical rationalism | Statement: [The Poverty of Historicism, supports, critical rationalism]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: critical rationalism
Context triple: [The Poverty of Historicism, supports, critical rationalism]
  • A. falsificationism
    Falsificationism is a philosophy of science, chiefly associated with Karl Popper, which holds that scientific theories can never be conclusively verified but can and should be rigorously tested and potentially refuted by empirical evidence.
  • B. logical positivism
    Logical positivism is a 20th-century philosophical movement that emphasizes the verification of statements through empirical observation and logical analysis, rejecting metaphysics as cognitively meaningless.
  • C. Truth, Rationality, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge
    "Truth, Rationality, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge" is a philosophical work by Karl Popper that explores how scientific knowledge progresses through critical rationalism and the rigorous testing of theories.
  • D. The Logic of Scientific Discovery
    The Logic of Scientific Discovery is Karl Popper’s foundational philosophical work that introduces falsifiability as the key criterion distinguishing scientific theories from non-scientific ones.
  • E. critique of instrumental reason
    Critique of instrumental reason is a philosophical concept, associated especially with Theodor W. Adorno and the Frankfurt School, that analyzes how modern rationality becomes a tool for domination and control rather than emancipation.
  • 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: critical rationalism
Triple: [The Poverty of Historicism, supports, critical rationalism]
Generated description
Critical rationalism is a philosophical approach, chiefly associated with Karl Popper, that holds scientific and rational progress occurs through bold conjectures and rigorous attempts at refutation rather than through justification or verification.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: critical rationalism
Target entity description: Critical rationalism is a philosophical approach, chiefly associated with Karl Popper, that holds scientific and rational progress occurs through bold conjectures and rigorous attempts at refutation rather than through justification or verification.
  • A. falsificationism chosen
    Falsificationism is a philosophy of science, chiefly associated with Karl Popper, which holds that scientific theories can never be conclusively verified but can and should be rigorously tested and potentially refuted by empirical evidence.
  • B. logical positivism
    Logical positivism is a 20th-century philosophical movement that emphasizes the verification of statements through empirical observation and logical analysis, rejecting metaphysics as cognitively meaningless.
  • C. Truth, Rationality, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge
    "Truth, Rationality, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge" is a philosophical work by Karl Popper that explores how scientific knowledge progresses through critical rationalism and the rigorous testing of theories.
  • D. The Logic of Scientific Discovery
    The Logic of Scientific Discovery is Karl Popper’s foundational philosophical work that introduces falsifiability as the key criterion distinguishing scientific theories from non-scientific ones.
  • E. critique of instrumental reason
    Critique of instrumental reason is a philosophical concept, associated especially with Theodor W. Adorno and the Frankfurt School, that analyzes how modern rationality becomes a tool for domination and control rather than emancipation.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ad859f218081909458d2cebbf57565 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb0c8179081908a2595d1fdb7560a completed March 8, 2026, 5:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b31a71b56c8190bb30eaada02ebdb5 completed March 12, 2026, 7:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b31c34cc388190a5fab8e9b2a1aa92 completed March 12, 2026, 8:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b31da025048190b7d1611df82a542c completed March 12, 2026, 8:10 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:11 p.m.