Triple

T736966
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject St. Thomas Aquinas E14954 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object Étienne Gilson
Étienne Gilson was a prominent 20th-century French philosopher and historian of medieval thought, renowned as a leading neo-Thomist and scholar of Christian philosophy.
E89354 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: Étienne Gilson | Statement: [St. Thomas Aquinas, influenced, Étienne Gilson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Étienne Gilson
Context triple: [St. Thomas Aquinas, influenced, Étienne Gilson]
  • A. Jacques Maritain
    Jacques Maritain was a prominent 20th-century French Catholic philosopher known for his work in neo-Thomism, political philosophy, and the philosophy of human rights.
  • B. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a French Jesuit priest, paleontologist, and philosopher known for integrating evolutionary science with Christian theology and proposing the concept of the Omega Point.
  • C. Albert the Great
    Albert the Great was a 13th-century Dominican scholar, philosopher, and bishop renowned for his comprehensive knowledge of natural science and theology and as the teacher of Thomas Aquinas.
  • D. St. Thomas Aquinas
    St. Thomas Aquinas was a 13th-century Dominican friar, theologian, and philosopher whose synthesis of Christian doctrine with Aristotelian philosophy made him one of the most influential thinkers in Western intellectual and religious history.
  • E. Duns Scotus
    Duns Scotus was a medieval Franciscan theologian and philosopher known for his subtle metaphysical thought and for formulating a key defense of the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception.
  • 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: Étienne Gilson
Triple: [St. Thomas Aquinas, influenced, Étienne Gilson]
Generated description
Étienne Gilson was a prominent 20th-century French philosopher and historian of medieval thought, renowned as a leading neo-Thomist and scholar of Christian philosophy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Étienne Gilson
Target entity description: Étienne Gilson was a prominent 20th-century French philosopher and historian of medieval thought, renowned as a leading neo-Thomist and scholar of Christian philosophy.
  • A. Jacques Maritain
    Jacques Maritain was a prominent 20th-century French Catholic philosopher known for his work in neo-Thomism, political philosophy, and the philosophy of human rights.
  • B. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a French Jesuit priest, paleontologist, and philosopher known for integrating evolutionary science with Christian theology and proposing the concept of the Omega Point.
  • C. Albert the Great
    Albert the Great was a 13th-century Dominican scholar, philosopher, and bishop renowned for his comprehensive knowledge of natural science and theology and as the teacher of Thomas Aquinas.
  • D. St. Thomas Aquinas
    St. Thomas Aquinas was a 13th-century Dominican friar, theologian, and philosopher whose synthesis of Christian doctrine with Aristotelian philosophy made him one of the most influential thinkers in Western intellectual and religious history.
  • E. Duns Scotus
    Duns Scotus was a medieval Franciscan theologian and philosopher known for his subtle metaphysical thought and for formulating a key defense of the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception.
  • 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_69a654e1d10c8190b69b30cc70add604 completed March 3, 2026, 3:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a6557837bc8190a2868cb661f2f2e6 completed March 3, 2026, 3:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a6560a55e881909a37e503b82b35f3 completed March 3, 2026, 3:31 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.