Triple

T698225
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Presocratic philosophers E13939 entity
Predicate documentedBy P4310 FINISHED
Object Theophrastus
Theophrastus was an ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle’s successor as head of the Lyceum, renowned for his influential works in logic, ethics, and especially botany.
E101160 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: Theophrastus | Statement: [Presocratic philosophers, documentedBy, Theophrastus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theophrastus
Context triple: [Presocratic philosophers, documentedBy, Theophrastus]
  • A. Chrysippus of Soli
    Chrysippus of Soli was a foundational Greek Stoic philosopher whose prolific writings and systematic thought shaped Stoicism into a major Hellenistic school.
  • B. Posidonius of Apamea
    Posidonius of Apamea was a prominent Hellenistic philosopher, polymath, and influential later Stoic thinker whose work bridged Stoicism with contemporary science, history, and geography.
  • C. Dorotheus
    Dorotheus was a 6th-century Byzantine jurist who helped systematize and codify Roman law under Emperor Justinian I.
  • D. Euclid of Megara
    Euclid of Megara was an ancient Greek philosopher, founder of the Megarian school, known for combining Socratic ethics with Eleatic logic and dialectical methods.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Theophrastus
Triple: [Presocratic philosophers, documentedBy, Theophrastus]
Generated description
Theophrastus was an ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle’s successor as head of the Lyceum, renowned for his influential works in logic, ethics, and especially botany.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theophrastus
Target entity description: Theophrastus was an ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle’s successor as head of the Lyceum, renowned for his influential works in logic, ethics, and especially botany.
  • A. Chrysippus of Soli
    Chrysippus of Soli was a foundational Greek Stoic philosopher whose prolific writings and systematic thought shaped Stoicism into a major Hellenistic school.
  • B. Posidonius of Apamea
    Posidonius of Apamea was a prominent Hellenistic philosopher, polymath, and influential later Stoic thinker whose work bridged Stoicism with contemporary science, history, and geography.
  • C. Dorotheus
    Dorotheus was a 6th-century Byzantine jurist who helped systematize and codify Roman law under Emperor Justinian I.
  • D. Euclid of Megara
    Euclid of Megara was an ancient Greek philosopher, founder of the Megarian school, known for combining Socratic ethics with Eleatic logic and dialectical methods.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69a7a3a6bcf88190aff5bd3db264f475 completed March 4, 2026, 3:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7a587591c81909b05e00ef5c3d896 completed March 4, 2026, 3:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7a609da188190827eb7deddcca47b completed March 4, 2026, 3:24 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.