Triple

T4213090
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Tomasi E93949 entity
Predicate academicAdvisor P167 FINISHED
Object Gerald Gaus
Gerald Gaus was an American political philosopher known for his influential work on liberalism, public reason, and the justification of political morality.
E425532 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: Gerald Gaus | Statement: [John Tomasi, academicAdvisor, Gerald Gaus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gerald Gaus
Context triple: [John Tomasi, academicAdvisor, Gerald Gaus]
  • A. Russell Gewirtz
    Russell Gewirtz is an American screenwriter best known for writing the crime thriller film "Inside Man."
  • B. Raymond Geuss
    Raymond Geuss is a political philosopher known for his realist and historically grounded critique of liberalism and ideal theory, particularly through works like "The Idea of a Critical Theory" and "Outside Ethics."
  • C. Robert A. Burgelman
    Robert A. Burgelman is a scholar of strategic management and corporate innovation, known for his influential research on strategy-making processes and long-time professorship at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
  • D. Ralph W. Zwicker
    Ralph W. Zwicker was a United States Army general and decorated combat officer best known for his leadership in the Korean War and his later involvement in a high-profile clash with Senator Joseph McCarthy.
  • E. Gregory Nussbaum
    Gregory Nussbaum is a film editor known for his work on the 2008 comic-book adaptation "The Spirit."
  • 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: Gerald Gaus
Triple: [John Tomasi, academicAdvisor, Gerald Gaus]
Generated description
Gerald Gaus was an American political philosopher known for his influential work on liberalism, public reason, and the justification of political morality.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gerald Gaus
Target entity description: Gerald Gaus was an American political philosopher known for his influential work on liberalism, public reason, and the justification of political morality.
  • A. Russell Gewirtz
    Russell Gewirtz is an American screenwriter best known for writing the crime thriller film "Inside Man."
  • B. Raymond Geuss
    Raymond Geuss is a political philosopher known for his realist and historically grounded critique of liberalism and ideal theory, particularly through works like "The Idea of a Critical Theory" and "Outside Ethics."
  • C. Robert A. Burgelman
    Robert A. Burgelman is a scholar of strategic management and corporate innovation, known for his influential research on strategy-making processes and long-time professorship at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
  • D. Ralph W. Zwicker
    Ralph W. Zwicker was a United States Army general and decorated combat officer best known for his leadership in the Korean War and his later involvement in a high-profile clash with Senator Joseph McCarthy.
  • E. Gregory Nussbaum
    Gregory Nussbaum is a film editor known for his work on the 2008 comic-book adaptation "The Spirit."
  • 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_69b3451743608190808f41d17ccf2650 completed March 12, 2026, 10:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b34be585848190b0b177b5516f53c1 completed March 12, 2026, 11:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5b76f07b4819097b59868af43b611 completed March 14, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5b80e6b6c8190a6c10c62f733f4e5 completed March 14, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5b881c80081909af084ff4b43b01e completed March 14, 2026, 7:35 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:04 p.m.