Triple

T736967
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject St. Thomas Aquinas E14954 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object Karl Rahner
Karl Rahner was a 20th-century German Jesuit priest and theologian whose transcendental and existential approach to Catholic theology made him one of the most influential thinkers of the Second Vatican Council.
E90646 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: Karl Rahner | Statement: [St. Thomas Aquinas, influenced, Karl Rahner]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Karl Rahner
Context triple: [St. Thomas Aquinas, influenced, Karl Rahner]
  • A. Gustaf Aulén
    Gustaf Aulén was a Swedish Lutheran theologian and bishop best known for reviving and systematizing the classic “Christus Victor” understanding of Christ’s atonement in 20th-century theology.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Bernhard von Galen, Bishop of Münster
    Bernhard von Galen, Bishop of Münster, was a powerful 17th-century prince-bishop and military leader known for his aggressive campaigns and significant role in the Dutch Rampjaar of 1672.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Joseph Ratzinger Sr.
    Joseph Ratzinger Sr. was a Bavarian police officer best known as the father of Joseph Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict XVI.
  • 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: Karl Rahner
Triple: [St. Thomas Aquinas, influenced, Karl Rahner]
Generated description
Karl Rahner was a 20th-century German Jesuit priest and theologian whose transcendental and existential approach to Catholic theology made him one of the most influential thinkers of the Second Vatican Council.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Karl Rahner
Target entity description: Karl Rahner was a 20th-century German Jesuit priest and theologian whose transcendental and existential approach to Catholic theology made him one of the most influential thinkers of the Second Vatican Council.
  • A. Gustaf Aulén
    Gustaf Aulén was a Swedish Lutheran theologian and bishop best known for reviving and systematizing the classic “Christus Victor” understanding of Christ’s atonement in 20th-century theology.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Bernhard von Galen, Bishop of Münster
    Bernhard von Galen, Bishop of Münster, was a powerful 17th-century prince-bishop and military leader known for his aggressive campaigns and significant role in the Dutch Rampjaar of 1672.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Joseph Ratzinger Sr.
    Joseph Ratzinger Sr. was a Bavarian police officer best known as the father of Joseph Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict XVI.
  • 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_69a65e3df8e48190905f89acbf7f3667 completed March 3, 2026, 4:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a663f6db448190b82c18393b6c7a3c completed March 3, 2026, 4:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a6646c5d3c81909b51268eaf8d14be completed March 3, 2026, 4:32 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.