Triple

T4826272
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject W. D. Ross E107831 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Aristotle’s Metaphysics (editor and translator)
Aristotle’s Metaphysics (editor and translator) is W. D. Ross’s influential critical edition and English translation of Aristotle’s foundational philosophical treatise on being, substance, and first principles.
E472508 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: Aristotle’s Metaphysics (editor and translator) | Statement: [W. D. Ross, notableWork, Aristotle’s Metaphysics (editor and translator)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aristotle’s Metaphysics (editor and translator)
Context triple: [W. D. Ross, notableWork, Aristotle’s Metaphysics (editor and translator)]
  • A. Quaestiones in Metaphysicam Aristotelis
    Quaestiones in Metaphysicam Aristotelis is a medieval scholastic commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics that explores key issues in ontology, causality, and the nature of being.
  • B. Middle Commentaries on Aristotle
    Middle Commentaries on Aristotle are a series of influential philosophical and explanatory works by Averroes that provide systematic, intermediate-level interpretations of Aristotle’s major texts for students and scholars in the medieval Islamic and later Latin traditions.
  • C. Commentaries on Aristotle
    Commentaries on Aristotle are a series of influential medieval philosophical and theological works in which St. Thomas Aquinas analyzes and interprets Aristotle’s writings, integrating them with Christian thought.
  • D. Corpus Aristotelicum
    The Corpus Aristotelicum is the collected body of surviving works attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, encompassing his writings on logic, metaphysics, ethics, politics, natural science, and biology.
  • E. Aristotle’s On Generation and Corruption
    Aristotle’s On Generation and Corruption is a foundational philosophical treatise that analyzes how physical substances come into being, change, and pass away, forming a core part of his natural philosophy.
  • 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: Aristotle’s Metaphysics (editor and translator)
Triple: [W. D. Ross, notableWork, Aristotle’s Metaphysics (editor and translator)]
Generated description
Aristotle’s Metaphysics (editor and translator) is W. D. Ross’s influential critical edition and English translation of Aristotle’s foundational philosophical treatise on being, substance, and first principles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aristotle’s Metaphysics (editor and translator)
Target entity description: Aristotle’s Metaphysics (editor and translator) is W. D. Ross’s influential critical edition and English translation of Aristotle’s foundational philosophical treatise on being, substance, and first principles.
  • A. Quaestiones in Metaphysicam Aristotelis
    Quaestiones in Metaphysicam Aristotelis is a medieval scholastic commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics that explores key issues in ontology, causality, and the nature of being.
  • B. Middle Commentaries on Aristotle
    Middle Commentaries on Aristotle are a series of influential philosophical and explanatory works by Averroes that provide systematic, intermediate-level interpretations of Aristotle’s major texts for students and scholars in the medieval Islamic and later Latin traditions.
  • C. Commentaries on Aristotle
    Commentaries on Aristotle are a series of influential medieval philosophical and theological works in which St. Thomas Aquinas analyzes and interprets Aristotle’s writings, integrating them with Christian thought.
  • D. Corpus Aristotelicum
    The Corpus Aristotelicum is the collected body of surviving works attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, encompassing his writings on logic, metaphysics, ethics, politics, natural science, and biology.
  • E. Aristotle’s On Generation and Corruption
    Aristotle’s On Generation and Corruption is a foundational philosophical treatise that analyzes how physical substances come into being, change, and pass away, forming a core part of his natural philosophy.
  • 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_69bd43fac8188190803f0327190621e4 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6caf22308190a2048ec6acfa5af2 completed March 20, 2026, 3:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be4dcd3ecc8190a5223f00344019ff completed March 21, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be4e61a9a8819096e3c4ba7612de85 completed March 21, 2026, 7:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be4f107e7c8190aec4a7bcf0520ec9 completed March 21, 2026, 7:56 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:24 p.m.