Triple

T698211
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Presocratic philosophers E13939 entity
Predicate includes P1393 FINISHED
Object Philolaus
Philolaus was a 5th-century BCE Pythagorean philosopher known for proposing a cosmological system in which a "central fire" rather than Earth occupied the center of the universe.
E133339 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: Philolaus | Statement: [Presocratic philosophers, includes, Philolaus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philolaus
Context triple: [Presocratic philosophers, includes, Philolaus]
  • A. Empedocles
    Empedocles was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, poet, and scientist best known for proposing the four classical elements—earth, air, fire, and water—as the fundamental constituents of reality.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Melissus of Samos
    Melissus of Samos was a 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher and Eleatic thinker known for arguing that reality is a single, unchanging, infinite being.
  • E. Anaximenes of Miletus
    Anaximenes of Miletus was an early Greek Presocratic thinker who proposed that air is the fundamental substance underlying all reality.
  • 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: Philolaus
Triple: [Presocratic philosophers, includes, Philolaus]
Generated description
Philolaus was a 5th-century BCE Pythagorean philosopher known for proposing a cosmological system in which a "central fire" rather than Earth occupied the center of the universe.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philolaus
Target entity description: Philolaus was a 5th-century BCE Pythagorean philosopher known for proposing a cosmological system in which a "central fire" rather than Earth occupied the center of the universe.
  • A. Empedocles
    Empedocles was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, poet, and scientist best known for proposing the four classical elements—earth, air, fire, and water—as the fundamental constituents of reality.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Melissus of Samos
    Melissus of Samos was a 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher and Eleatic thinker known for arguing that reality is a single, unchanging, infinite being.
  • E. Anaximenes of Miletus
    Anaximenes of Miletus was an early Greek Presocratic thinker who proposed that air is the fundamental substance underlying all reality.
  • 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_69ac6600fa4c8190be934f49ba4b75ca completed March 7, 2026, 5:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac669c3d7c819085194c797d41fb5d completed March 7, 2026, 5:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac670ce8b881909d4ea8082f7fe096 completed March 7, 2026, 5:57 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.