Triple

T20231655
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Carl Becker E495539 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers is a classic work of intellectual history in which Carl Becker argues that Enlightenment thinkers secularized Christian eschatological ideas rather than fully breaking from them.
E1418686 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 Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers | Statement: [Carl Becker, notableWork, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers
Context triple: [Carl Becker, notableWork, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers]
  • A. The Enlightenment: An Interpretation
    The Enlightenment: An Interpretation is a landmark two-volume historical study by Peter Gay that analyzes the ideas, culture, and leading figures of the 18th-century Enlightenment in Europe.
  • B. God, Man, and World in the Age of Enlightenment
    God, Man, and World in the Age of Enlightenment is a philosophical study by Karl Löwith examining how Enlightenment thought reshaped the relationship between theology, human existence, and the modern worldview.
  • C. The End of 18th Century Philosophy
    "The End of 18th Century Philosophy" is a scholarly work by Susan Buck-Morss that critically examines the legacy and transformation of Enlightenment thought at the close of the eighteenth century.
  • D. Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
    Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is a biographical work by Diogenes Laërtius that compiles the lives, doctrines, and anecdotes of ancient Greek philosophers.
  • E. On the History of Modern Philosophy
    On the History of Modern Philosophy is a series of late lectures by German idealist philosopher F. W. J. Schelling that critically surveys and interprets the development of modern philosophy from Descartes onward.
  • 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 Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers
Triple: [Carl Becker, notableWork, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers]
Generated description
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers is a classic work of intellectual history in which Carl Becker argues that Enlightenment thinkers secularized Christian eschatological ideas rather than fully breaking from them.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers
Target entity description: The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers is a classic work of intellectual history in which Carl Becker argues that Enlightenment thinkers secularized Christian eschatological ideas rather than fully breaking from them.
  • A. The Enlightenment: An Interpretation
    The Enlightenment: An Interpretation is a landmark two-volume historical study by Peter Gay that analyzes the ideas, culture, and leading figures of the 18th-century Enlightenment in Europe.
  • B. God, Man, and World in the Age of Enlightenment
    God, Man, and World in the Age of Enlightenment is a philosophical study by Karl Löwith examining how Enlightenment thought reshaped the relationship between theology, human existence, and the modern worldview.
  • C. The End of 18th Century Philosophy
    "The End of 18th Century Philosophy" is a scholarly work by Susan Buck-Morss that critically examines the legacy and transformation of Enlightenment thought at the close of the eighteenth century.
  • D. Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
    Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is a biographical work by Diogenes Laërtius that compiles the lives, doctrines, and anecdotes of ancient Greek philosophers.
  • E. On the History of Modern Philosophy
    On the History of Modern Philosophy is a series of late lectures by German idealist philosopher F. W. J. Schelling that critically surveys and interprets the development of modern philosophy from Descartes onward.
  • 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_69da626cff80819097b530718a7c98b6 completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e66fddafac819089cef4158f5e0ab5 completed April 20, 2026, 6:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a084b8c7c9881908f724d10c915963a completed May 16, 2026, 10:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a084c041b5c8190881a6d08c4afe42f completed May 16, 2026, 10:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a084c7dee808190a0883f7f0c7873a9 completed May 16, 2026, 10:52 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:39 p.m.