Triple

T621253
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Marcus Aurelius E14517 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Meditations
Meditations is a series of personal writings by Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius that articulate key principles of Stoic philosophy and self-discipline.
E77880 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: Meditations | Statement: [Marcus Aurelius, notableWork, Meditations]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Meditations
Context triple: [Marcus Aurelius, notableWork, Meditations]
  • A. The Conduct of Life
    The Conduct of Life is a collection of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson that explores practical and philosophical questions about how to live ethically and purposefully in the modern world.
  • B. Epitome of the Divine Institutes
    Epitome of the Divine Institutes is a concise abridgment of Lactantius’s major Christian apologetic work, presenting its theological and philosophical arguments in a shorter, more accessible form.
  • C. Several Tracts and Discourses
    "Several Tracts and Discourses" is a collection of theological and moral writings by the English churchman and Archbishop of York John Sharp.
  • D. Meditations on First Philosophy
    Meditations on First Philosophy is René Descartes’ foundational philosophical treatise in which he employs radical doubt to establish certain knowledge and famously argues for the distinction between mind and body.
  • E. Rules for the Direction of the Mind
    Rules for the Direction of the Mind is an unfinished philosophical and methodological treatise by René Descartes that outlines his early ideas on scientific method and rational inquiry.
  • 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: Meditations
Triple: [Marcus Aurelius, notableWork, Meditations]
Generated description
Meditations is a series of personal writings by Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius that articulate key principles of Stoic philosophy and self-discipline.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Meditations
Target entity description: Meditations is a series of personal writings by Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius that articulate key principles of Stoic philosophy and self-discipline.
  • A. The Conduct of Life
    The Conduct of Life is a collection of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson that explores practical and philosophical questions about how to live ethically and purposefully in the modern world.
  • B. Epitome of the Divine Institutes
    Epitome of the Divine Institutes is a concise abridgment of Lactantius’s major Christian apologetic work, presenting its theological and philosophical arguments in a shorter, more accessible form.
  • C. Several Tracts and Discourses
    "Several Tracts and Discourses" is a collection of theological and moral writings by the English churchman and Archbishop of York John Sharp.
  • D. Meditations on First Philosophy
    Meditations on First Philosophy is René Descartes’ foundational philosophical treatise in which he employs radical doubt to establish certain knowledge and famously argues for the distinction between mind and body.
  • E. Rules for the Direction of the Mind
    Rules for the Direction of the Mind is an unfinished philosophical and methodological treatise by René Descartes that outlines his early ideas on scientific method and rational inquiry.
  • 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_69a4934b17c881909ace8270e8ddd202 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49e3e5d80819096e72e11b533f931 completed March 1, 2026, 8:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a563cab73c819082b51d64d249143b completed March 2, 2026, 10:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a5657b51c881909c393f79c359181c completed March 2, 2026, 10:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a565e528a88190a547f69c7e378140 completed March 2, 2026, 10:26 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:35 p.m.