Triple

T50891
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Christiaan Huygens E997 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object René Descartes
René Descartes was a 17th-century French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist, often called the "father of modern philosophy" and known for works such as "Meditations on First Philosophy" and the dictum "Cogito, ergo sum."
E6274 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: René Descartes | Statement: [Christiaan Huygens, influencedBy, René Descartes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: René Descartes
Context triple: [Christiaan Huygens, influencedBy, René Descartes]
  • A. Baruch Spinoza
    Baruch Spinoza was a 17th-century rationalist philosopher whose works on metaphysics, ethics, and religion profoundly influenced Enlightenment thought and modern philosophy.
  • B. Francis Bacon
    Francis Bacon was an English philosopher, statesman, and pioneer of the scientific method whose works laid the foundations for modern empirical science.
  • C. Immanuel Kant
    Immanuel Kant was an 18th-century German philosopher whose critical philosophy, especially in works like "Critique of Pure Reason," profoundly shaped modern epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics.
  • D. Christiaan Huygens
    Christiaan Huygens was a 17th-century Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer known for his work on the wave theory of light, the invention of the pendulum clock, and the discovery of Saturn’s moon Titan.
  • E. Isaac Newton
    Isaac Newton was a 17th-century English mathematician, physicist, and natural philosopher whose formulation of classical mechanics and universal gravitation laid the foundations of modern science.
  • 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: René Descartes
Triple: [Christiaan Huygens, influencedBy, René Descartes]
Generated description
René Descartes was a 17th-century French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist, often called the "father of modern philosophy" and known for works such as "Meditations on First Philosophy" and the dictum "Cogito, ergo sum."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: René Descartes
Target entity description: René Descartes was a 17th-century French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist, often called the "father of modern philosophy" and known for works such as "Meditations on First Philosophy" and the dictum "Cogito, ergo sum."
  • A. Baruch Spinoza
    Baruch Spinoza was a 17th-century rationalist philosopher whose works on metaphysics, ethics, and religion profoundly influenced Enlightenment thought and modern philosophy.
  • B. Francis Bacon
    Francis Bacon was an English philosopher, statesman, and pioneer of the scientific method whose works laid the foundations for modern empirical science.
  • C. Immanuel Kant
    Immanuel Kant was an 18th-century German philosopher whose critical philosophy, especially in works like "Critique of Pure Reason," profoundly shaped modern epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics.
  • D. Christiaan Huygens
    Christiaan Huygens was a 17th-century Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer known for his work on the wave theory of light, the invention of the pendulum clock, and the discovery of Saturn’s moon Titan.
  • E. Isaac Newton
    Isaac Newton was a 17th-century English mathematician, physicist, and natural philosopher whose formulation of classical mechanics and universal gravitation laid the foundations of modern science.
  • 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_69a2480baefc81909951b14058479aa2 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:42 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24af56cc88190a898f8bf2a283820 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:55 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a25ab66dd0819081443ebc4702d3b0 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a25ba79ab881909fa4570aa2acf402 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a25c28192081909853f2833f1472ef completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:08 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:47 a.m.