Triple
T698198
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Presocratic philosophers |
E13939
|
entity |
| Predicate | includes |
P1393
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Thales of Miletus
Thales of Miletus was an early Greek philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer often regarded as the founder of Western philosophy and the first to seek natural explanations for phenomena.
|
E85706
|
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: Thales of Miletus | Statement: [Presocratic philosophers, includes, Thales of Miletus]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thales of Miletus Context triple: [Presocratic philosophers, includes, Thales of Miletus]
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A.
Pythagoras of Rhegion
Pythagoras of Rhegion was an ancient Greek sculptor renowned for his realistic bronze statues and is traditionally credited with creating the famous Charioteer of Delphi.
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B.
Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher known for introducing the concept of Nous (Mind) as the cosmic ordering principle and for offering naturalistic explanations of celestial and physical phenomena.
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C.
Pythagoras
Pythagoras was an ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician best known for founding the Pythagorean school and for the Pythagorean theorem in geometry.
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D.
Zeno of Elea
Zeno of Elea was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher best known for his paradoxes challenging the coherence of motion and plurality.
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E.
Timaeus of Tauromenium
Timaeus of Tauromenium was an ancient Greek historian of Magna Graecia, best known for his extensive universal history that greatly influenced later writers like Polybius and Diodorus Siculus.
- 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: Thales of Miletus Triple: [Presocratic philosophers, includes, Thales of Miletus]
Generated description
Thales of Miletus was an early Greek philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer often regarded as the founder of Western philosophy and the first to seek natural explanations for phenomena.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thales of Miletus Target entity description: Thales of Miletus was an early Greek philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer often regarded as the founder of Western philosophy and the first to seek natural explanations for phenomena.
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A.
Pythagoras of Rhegion
Pythagoras of Rhegion was an ancient Greek sculptor renowned for his realistic bronze statues and is traditionally credited with creating the famous Charioteer of Delphi.
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B.
Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher known for introducing the concept of Nous (Mind) as the cosmic ordering principle and for offering naturalistic explanations of celestial and physical phenomena.
-
C.
Pythagoras
Pythagoras was an ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician best known for founding the Pythagorean school and for the Pythagorean theorem in geometry.
-
D.
Zeno of Elea
Zeno of Elea was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher best known for his paradoxes challenging the coherence of motion and plurality.
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E.
Timaeus of Tauromenium
Timaeus of Tauromenium was an ancient Greek historian of Magna Graecia, best known for his extensive universal history that greatly influenced later writers like Polybius and Diodorus Siculus.
- 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_69a493406c408190957eeec9048a8fb6 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4a0c99be48190babc37c397b6a186 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:25 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a5dcac4e9c8190bb6903916a6624a8 |
completed | March 2, 2026, 6:53 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a5dfa4a07c8190ac4f477e324b46ff |
completed | March 2, 2026, 7:06 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a607857b648190a37bf535428e2afd |
completed | March 2, 2026, 9:56 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.