Triple

T9070231
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at the University of Oxford E217345 entity
Predicate notableHolder P1918 FINISHED
Object R. C. Zaehner
R. C. Zaehner was a prominent 20th-century British scholar of comparative religion and mysticism, known for his influential writings on Eastern religions and their relationship to Western thought.
E776108 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: R. C. Zaehner | Statement: [Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at the University of Oxford, notableHolder, R. C. Zaehner]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: R. C. Zaehner
Context triple: [Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at the University of Oxford, notableHolder, R. C. Zaehner]
  • A. C. H. Dodd
    C. H. Dodd was a prominent 20th-century British New Testament scholar and theologian known for his influential work on the Gospel of John, realized eschatology, and the historical interpretation of Christian doctrine.
  • B. Frithjof Schuon
    Frithjof Schuon was a 20th-century metaphysician and spiritual author known as a leading figure of the Traditionalist School, emphasizing perennial philosophy and the transcendent unity of religions.
  • C. Raymond Priestley
    Raymond Priestley was a British geologist and Antarctic explorer who later became a prominent academic and university administrator.
  • D. O. V. Wright
    O. V. Wright was an American soul and blues singer known for his deeply emotive vocals and influential Southern soul recordings in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • E. Max Müller
    Max Müller was a pioneering 19th-century German-born philologist and Orientalist, best known for his influential work on comparative linguistics, the study and translation of Sanskrit texts, and the early development of comparative religion.
  • 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: R. C. Zaehner
Triple: [Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at the University of Oxford, notableHolder, R. C. Zaehner]
Generated description
R. C. Zaehner was a prominent 20th-century British scholar of comparative religion and mysticism, known for his influential writings on Eastern religions and their relationship to Western thought.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: R. C. Zaehner
Target entity description: R. C. Zaehner was a prominent 20th-century British scholar of comparative religion and mysticism, known for his influential writings on Eastern religions and their relationship to Western thought.
  • A. C. H. Dodd
    C. H. Dodd was a prominent 20th-century British New Testament scholar and theologian known for his influential work on the Gospel of John, realized eschatology, and the historical interpretation of Christian doctrine.
  • B. Frithjof Schuon
    Frithjof Schuon was a 20th-century metaphysician and spiritual author known as a leading figure of the Traditionalist School, emphasizing perennial philosophy and the transcendent unity of religions.
  • C. Raymond Priestley
    Raymond Priestley was a British geologist and Antarctic explorer who later became a prominent academic and university administrator.
  • D. O. V. Wright
    O. V. Wright was an American soul and blues singer known for his deeply emotive vocals and influential Southern soul recordings in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • E. Max Müller
    Max Müller was a pioneering 19th-century German-born philologist and Orientalist, best known for his influential work on comparative linguistics, the study and translation of Sanskrit texts, and the early development of comparative religion.
  • 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_69ca83d5a7f48190b16c1e59bd43ede0 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc955d29548190a204efd3257b6d5d completed April 1, 2026, 3:47 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cffde470388190ae88a96654404410 completed April 3, 2026, 5:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d000d2c5688190b014ce33c04ff875 completed April 3, 2026, 6:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d001a1056c819083793547dbd4b1ee completed April 3, 2026, 6:06 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:11 p.m.