Triple

T3464045
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gorgias E73092 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object On Non-Existence
On Non-Existence is a lost sophistic treatise, attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Gorgias, that famously argues in paradoxical fashion that nothing exists, that if anything did exist it would be unknowable, and that if it were knowable it could not be communicated.
E359021 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 Non-Existence | Statement: [Gorgias, notableWork, On Non-Existence]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: On Non-Existence
Context triple: [Gorgias, notableWork, On Non-Existence]
  • A. A Paradox of Existence
    "A Paradox of Existence" is a philosophical work by Stephen Yablo that explores self-reference, existence, and paradoxes in metaphysics and logic.
  • B. Nihil Sine Deo
    Nihil Sine Deo is a Latin motto meaning “Nothing without God,” historically associated with the House of Hohenzollern and later adopted as Romania’s national motto.
  • C. “On What There Is”
    “On What There Is” is a seminal philosophical essay by W.V.O. Quine that challenges traditional notions of ontology and argues for a criterion of ontological commitment based on the quantificational structure of our best scientific theories.
  • D. An Inquiry into Modes of Existence
    An Inquiry into Modes of Existence is a philosophical work by Bruno Latour that proposes a pluralistic ontology to account for the diverse ways beings exist and gain legitimacy in modern societies.
  • E. On Contradiction
    "On Contradiction" is a 1937 philosophical essay by Mao Zedong that systematically applies and develops Marxist dialectical materialism to analyze the nature and role of contradictions in social and historical processes.
  • 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 Non-Existence
Triple: [Gorgias, notableWork, On Non-Existence]
Generated description
On Non-Existence is a lost sophistic treatise, attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Gorgias, that famously argues in paradoxical fashion that nothing exists, that if anything did exist it would be unknowable, and that if it were knowable it could not be communicated.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: On Non-Existence
Target entity description: On Non-Existence is a lost sophistic treatise, attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Gorgias, that famously argues in paradoxical fashion that nothing exists, that if anything did exist it would be unknowable, and that if it were knowable it could not be communicated.
  • A. A Paradox of Existence
    "A Paradox of Existence" is a philosophical work by Stephen Yablo that explores self-reference, existence, and paradoxes in metaphysics and logic.
  • B. Nihil Sine Deo
    Nihil Sine Deo is a Latin motto meaning “Nothing without God,” historically associated with the House of Hohenzollern and later adopted as Romania’s national motto.
  • C. “On What There Is”
    “On What There Is” is a seminal philosophical essay by W.V.O. Quine that challenges traditional notions of ontology and argues for a criterion of ontological commitment based on the quantificational structure of our best scientific theories.
  • D. An Inquiry into Modes of Existence
    An Inquiry into Modes of Existence is a philosophical work by Bruno Latour that proposes a pluralistic ontology to account for the diverse ways beings exist and gain legitimacy in modern societies.
  • E. On Contradiction
    "On Contradiction" is a 1937 philosophical essay by Mao Zedong that systematically applies and develops Marxist dialectical materialism to analyze the nature and role of contradictions in social and historical processes.
  • 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_69ad85b224d481908ff8be51338d24ff completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbb0b73f481908c9f8d2b9b9bbbaf completed March 8, 2026, 6:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b3612720308190b5a0d943a754883f completed March 13, 2026, 12:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b361c3f7508190aacfc24528546614 completed March 13, 2026, 1 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b36249b50881909ebae2d35b30cc1c completed March 13, 2026, 1:03 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:17 p.m.