Triple

T7410857
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy E170997 entity
Predicate hasEssay P27484 FINISHED
Object The Dilemma of Determinism
"The Dilemma of Determinism" is an influential essay by William James in which he critiques strict determinism and defends a form of indeterminism to preserve moral responsibility and genuine choice.
E661615 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: The Dilemma of Determinism | Statement: [The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, hasEssay, The Dilemma of Determinism]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Dilemma of Determinism
Context triple: [The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, hasEssay, The Dilemma of Determinism]
  • A. essay "Is Everything Determined?"
    The essay "Is Everything Determined?" is a philosophical and scientific reflection by Stephen Hawking on determinism, free will, and the implications of modern physics for predicting the future.
  • B. The Freedom of the Will
    The Freedom of the Will is an influential 18th-century theological and philosophical treatise by Jonathan Edwards that rigorously defends a compatibilist view of human freedom and divine sovereignty.
  • C. Causality and Determination
    Causality and Determination is a philosophical work by Elizabeth Anscombe that critically examines the concepts of causation and determinism, challenging prevailing assumptions in analytic philosophy and the philosophy of science.
  • D. On the Freedom of the Will
    On the Freedom of the Will is a philosophical treatise by Arthur Schopenhauer that critically examines the nature of human freedom, moral responsibility, and determinism.
  • E. The Philosophy of the Act
    The Philosophy of the Act is a posthumously published collection of George Herbert Mead’s writings that develops his pragmatist and social behaviorist account of action, experience, and the emergence of mind.
  • 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: The Dilemma of Determinism
Triple: [The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, hasEssay, The Dilemma of Determinism]
Generated description
"The Dilemma of Determinism" is an influential essay by William James in which he critiques strict determinism and defends a form of indeterminism to preserve moral responsibility and genuine choice.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Dilemma of Determinism
Target entity description: "The Dilemma of Determinism" is an influential essay by William James in which he critiques strict determinism and defends a form of indeterminism to preserve moral responsibility and genuine choice.
  • A. essay "Is Everything Determined?"
    The essay "Is Everything Determined?" is a philosophical and scientific reflection by Stephen Hawking on determinism, free will, and the implications of modern physics for predicting the future.
  • B. The Freedom of the Will
    The Freedom of the Will is an influential 18th-century theological and philosophical treatise by Jonathan Edwards that rigorously defends a compatibilist view of human freedom and divine sovereignty.
  • C. Causality and Determination
    Causality and Determination is a philosophical work by Elizabeth Anscombe that critically examines the concepts of causation and determinism, challenging prevailing assumptions in analytic philosophy and the philosophy of science.
  • D. On the Freedom of the Will
    On the Freedom of the Will is a philosophical treatise by Arthur Schopenhauer that critically examines the nature of human freedom, moral responsibility, and determinism.
  • E. The Philosophy of the Act
    The Philosophy of the Act is a posthumously published collection of George Herbert Mead’s writings that develops his pragmatist and social behaviorist account of action, experience, and the emergence of mind.
  • 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_69c68a618bdc81908d8018edadecd1a4 completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f29ebea48190be96c6bc1e6406fb completed March 27, 2026, 9:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c811244df081909b63e085d2272cd2 completed March 28, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c81271a7f48190afc7c7b2c818cb8a completed March 28, 2026, 5:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c812df0b948190805862c5f176c956 completed March 28, 2026, 5:41 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:11 p.m.