Triple

T736960
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject St. Thomas Aquinas E14954 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object Boethius
Boethius was a late antique Roman philosopher and statesman best known for his work "The Consolation of Philosophy," which profoundly shaped medieval Christian and scholastic thought.
E98597 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: Boethius | Statement: [St. Thomas Aquinas, influencedBy, Boethius]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Boethius
Context triple: [St. Thomas Aquinas, influencedBy, Boethius]
  • A. Paul the Deacon
    Paul the Deacon was an 8th-century Lombard monk, historian, and scholar best known for his "History of the Lombards" and his influential role in the intellectual life of the early Middle Ages.
  • B. Lactantius
    Lactantius was an early 4th-century Christian author and apologist, best known for his work "Divine Institutes" and for serving as an advisor and tutor in the court of Emperor Constantine.
  • C. Augustine of Hippo
    Augustine of Hippo was a 4th–5th century Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings, including "Confessions" and "The City of God," profoundly shaped Western Christianity and Western thought.
  • D. Evagrius Ponticus
    Evagrius Ponticus was a 4th-century Christian monk and theologian known for his influential teachings on asceticism, prayer, and the analysis of sinful thoughts in early Eastern monasticism.
  • E. Ambrose of Milan
    Ambrose of Milan was a 4th-century bishop, theologian, and influential Church Father known for shaping Western Christian doctrine and famously mentoring and baptizing Augustine of Hippo.
  • 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: Boethius
Triple: [St. Thomas Aquinas, influencedBy, Boethius]
Generated description
Boethius was a late antique Roman philosopher and statesman best known for his work "The Consolation of Philosophy," which profoundly shaped medieval Christian and scholastic thought.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Boethius
Target entity description: Boethius was a late antique Roman philosopher and statesman best known for his work "The Consolation of Philosophy," which profoundly shaped medieval Christian and scholastic thought.
  • A. Paul the Deacon
    Paul the Deacon was an 8th-century Lombard monk, historian, and scholar best known for his "History of the Lombards" and his influential role in the intellectual life of the early Middle Ages.
  • B. Lactantius
    Lactantius was an early 4th-century Christian author and apologist, best known for his work "Divine Institutes" and for serving as an advisor and tutor in the court of Emperor Constantine.
  • C. Augustine of Hippo
    Augustine of Hippo was a 4th–5th century Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings, including "Confessions" and "The City of God," profoundly shaped Western Christianity and Western thought.
  • D. Evagrius Ponticus
    Evagrius Ponticus was a 4th-century Christian monk and theologian known for his influential teachings on asceticism, prayer, and the analysis of sinful thoughts in early Eastern monasticism.
  • E. Ambrose of Milan
    Ambrose of Milan was a 4th-century bishop, theologian, and influential Church Father known for shaping Western Christian doctrine and famously mentoring and baptizing Augustine of Hippo.
  • 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_69a4934d9930819099eed80096b0597d completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a5effc108190aea8fbe86641ba54 completed March 1, 2026, 8:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a76d742ef08190bb9405a1cde84eb1 completed March 3, 2026, 11:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a78f03a1a081909087f72e8342cba1 completed March 4, 2026, 1:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a78f632cd88190856e24d5f33d914c completed March 4, 2026, 1:48 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.