Triple

T7159796
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Samuel Clarke E166909 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object William Paley
William Paley was an English Anglican clergyman, philosopher, and apologist best known for his influential formulation of the teleological argument for the existence of God in his work "Natural Theology."
E645463 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: William Paley | Statement: [Samuel Clarke, influenced, William Paley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Paley
Context triple: [Samuel Clarke, influenced, William Paley]
  • A. William Samuel Paley
    William Samuel Paley was an American broadcasting executive who built CBS into one of the dominant radio and television networks of the 20th century.
  • B. Richard Bentley
    Richard Bentley was a prominent 19th-century British publisher and bookseller known for issuing major literary works by authors such as Charles Dickens and Herman Melville.
  • C. Richard Bentley
    Richard Bentley was an 18th-century English designer and illustrator closely associated with Horace Walpole, known for helping develop the early Gothic Revival style seen at Strawberry Hill.
  • D. Samuel Clarke
    Samuel Clarke was an 18th-century English philosopher and Anglican clergyman known for his influential works on natural religion, metaphysics, and Newtonian theology.
  • E. Paley
    Paley is a surname most notably associated with William S. Paley, the influential American broadcasting executive who built CBS into a major media network.
  • 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: William Paley
Triple: [Samuel Clarke, influenced, William Paley]
Generated description
William Paley was an English Anglican clergyman, philosopher, and apologist best known for his influential formulation of the teleological argument for the existence of God in his work "Natural Theology."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Paley
Target entity description: William Paley was an English Anglican clergyman, philosopher, and apologist best known for his influential formulation of the teleological argument for the existence of God in his work "Natural Theology."
  • A. William Samuel Paley
    William Samuel Paley was an American broadcasting executive who built CBS into one of the dominant radio and television networks of the 20th century.
  • B. Richard Bentley
    Richard Bentley was a prominent 19th-century British publisher and bookseller known for issuing major literary works by authors such as Charles Dickens and Herman Melville.
  • C. Richard Bentley
    Richard Bentley was an 18th-century English designer and illustrator closely associated with Horace Walpole, known for helping develop the early Gothic Revival style seen at Strawberry Hill.
  • D. Samuel Clarke
    Samuel Clarke was an 18th-century English philosopher and Anglican clergyman known for his influential works on natural religion, metaphysics, and Newtonian theology.
  • E. Paley
    Paley is a surname most notably associated with William S. Paley, the influential American broadcasting executive who built CBS into a major media network.
  • 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_69c68887a5cc8190bec0ea96227164f7 completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e811d6b081909dafeee1d820c74f completed March 27, 2026, 8:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7adbbe8008190b470cf049ba4be52 completed March 28, 2026, 10:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7aeca9b0c8190a9255e9e04689192 completed March 28, 2026, 10:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7af3aea348190be03e85322d49879 completed March 28, 2026, 10:36 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:47 p.m.