Triple

T648197
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Willard Van Orman Quine E11286 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Ontological Relativity and Other Essays
Ontological Relativity and Other Essays is a collection of influential philosophical papers by W.V.O. Quine that develops his views on ontology, meaning, and the indeterminacy of translation.
E81088 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: Ontological Relativity and Other Essays | Statement: [Willard Van Orman Quine, notableWork, Ontological Relativity and Other Essays]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ontological Relativity and Other Essays
Context triple: [Willard Van Orman Quine, notableWork, Ontological Relativity and Other Essays]
  • A. Language, Truth and Logic
    Language, Truth and Logic is A.J. Ayer’s influential 1936 philosophical work that popularized logical positivism in the English-speaking world by arguing that meaningful statements are either empirically verifiable or tautological.
  • B. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
    Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics is a foundational philosophical work by Immanuel Kant that concisely outlines and defends the key ideas of his critical philosophy, especially those developed more fully in the Critique of Pure Reason.
  • C. The Relativity of Wrong
    The Relativity of Wrong is an essay by Isaac Asimov that explains how scientific ideas become progressively less wrong over time, arguing that errors in science are matters of degree rather than absolute falsehood.
  • D. The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
    The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener is a collection of essays in which Martin Gardner explores and defends his views on philosophy, religion, and rational inquiry with his characteristic clarity and wit.
  • E. Philosophical Investigations
    Philosophical Investigations is a highly influential 20th-century work of philosophy that reshaped analytic philosophy through its exploration of language, meaning, and the limits of philosophical 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: Ontological Relativity and Other Essays
Triple: [Willard Van Orman Quine, notableWork, Ontological Relativity and Other Essays]
Generated description
Ontological Relativity and Other Essays is a collection of influential philosophical papers by W.V.O. Quine that develops his views on ontology, meaning, and the indeterminacy of translation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ontological Relativity and Other Essays
Target entity description: Ontological Relativity and Other Essays is a collection of influential philosophical papers by W.V.O. Quine that develops his views on ontology, meaning, and the indeterminacy of translation.
  • A. Language, Truth and Logic
    Language, Truth and Logic is A.J. Ayer’s influential 1936 philosophical work that popularized logical positivism in the English-speaking world by arguing that meaningful statements are either empirically verifiable or tautological.
  • B. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
    Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics is a foundational philosophical work by Immanuel Kant that concisely outlines and defends the key ideas of his critical philosophy, especially those developed more fully in the Critique of Pure Reason.
  • C. The Relativity of Wrong
    The Relativity of Wrong is an essay by Isaac Asimov that explains how scientific ideas become progressively less wrong over time, arguing that errors in science are matters of degree rather than absolute falsehood.
  • D. The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
    The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener is a collection of essays in which Martin Gardner explores and defends his views on philosophy, religion, and rational inquiry with his characteristic clarity and wit.
  • E. Philosophical Investigations
    Philosophical Investigations is a highly influential 20th-century work of philosophy that reshaped analytic philosophy through its exploration of language, meaning, and the limits of philosophical 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_69a493266a2881909daf4c40f719dee8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49f308f34819094ba28cfc786051e completed March 1, 2026, 8:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a580373e3c81909aa9ff50f3b1e781 completed March 2, 2026, 12:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a5833e10bc819091dba5bb5ec9ea85 completed March 2, 2026, 12:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a583a35678819087d440a05c7b636d completed March 2, 2026, 12:33 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.