Triple

T738263
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cartesianism E14982 entity
Predicate influencedPhilosopher P17544 FINISHED
Object Nicolas Malebranche
Nicolas Malebranche was a 17th-century French Oratorian priest and philosopher best known for synthesizing Cartesianism with Augustinian theology, developing the doctrine of occasionalism and a distinctive theory of seeing all things in God.
E92792 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: Nicolas Malebranche | Statement: [Cartesianism, influencedPhilosopher, Nicolas Malebranche]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicolas Malebranche
Context triple: [Cartesianism, influencedPhilosopher, Nicolas Malebranche]
  • A. René Descartes
    René Descartes was a 17th-century French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist, often called the "father of modern philosophy" and known for works such as "Meditations on First Philosophy" and the dictum "Cogito, ergo sum."
  • B. Pierre Bayle
    Pierre Bayle was a 17th-century French philosopher and skeptic whose critical writings on religion and tolerance profoundly shaped Enlightenment thought.
  • C. Baruch Spinoza
    Baruch Spinoza was a 17th-century rationalist philosopher whose works on metaphysics, ethics, and religion profoundly influenced Enlightenment thought and modern philosophy.
  • D. Francis Turretin
    Francis Turretin was a 17th-century Reformed theologian from Geneva, best known for his scholastic defense of Calvinist orthodoxy in works like the "Institutes of Elenctic Theology."
  • E. Christian Wolff
    Christian Wolff was an 18th-century German rationalist philosopher whose systematic and rigorous approach to metaphysics and logic significantly shaped the development of Enlightenment thought and influenced Immanuel Kant.
  • 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: Nicolas Malebranche
Triple: [Cartesianism, influencedPhilosopher, Nicolas Malebranche]
Generated description
Nicolas Malebranche was a 17th-century French Oratorian priest and philosopher best known for synthesizing Cartesianism with Augustinian theology, developing the doctrine of occasionalism and a distinctive theory of seeing all things in God.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicolas Malebranche
Target entity description: Nicolas Malebranche was a 17th-century French Oratorian priest and philosopher best known for synthesizing Cartesianism with Augustinian theology, developing the doctrine of occasionalism and a distinctive theory of seeing all things in God.
  • A. René Descartes
    René Descartes was a 17th-century French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist, often called the "father of modern philosophy" and known for works such as "Meditations on First Philosophy" and the dictum "Cogito, ergo sum."
  • B. Pierre Bayle
    Pierre Bayle was a 17th-century French philosopher and skeptic whose critical writings on religion and tolerance profoundly shaped Enlightenment thought.
  • C. Baruch Spinoza
    Baruch Spinoza was a 17th-century rationalist philosopher whose works on metaphysics, ethics, and religion profoundly influenced Enlightenment thought and modern philosophy.
  • D. Francis Turretin
    Francis Turretin was a 17th-century Reformed theologian from Geneva, best known for his scholastic defense of Calvinist orthodoxy in works like the "Institutes of Elenctic Theology."
  • E. Christian Wolff
    Christian Wolff was an 18th-century German rationalist philosopher whose systematic and rigorous approach to metaphysics and logic significantly shaped the development of Enlightenment thought and influenced Immanuel Kant.
  • 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_69a4a5f1c9888190b2817138c6893cfe completed March 1, 2026, 8:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a673329a0c8190b725b9863ba4c162 completed March 3, 2026, 5:35 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a673afbd308190863aea2ff0f650cb completed March 3, 2026, 5:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a6743f50d0819089885836b9668466 completed March 3, 2026, 5:40 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.