Triple

T9371768
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject animal rights movement E225545 entity
Predicate hasNotablePhilosopher P304 FINISHED
Object Tom Regan
Tom Regan was an American philosopher best known for his influential defense of animal rights based on the inherent value and moral standing of individual animals.
 E795179 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: Tom Regan | Statement: [animal rights movement, hasNotablePhilosopher, Tom Regan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tom Regan
Context triple: [animal rights movement, hasNotablePhilosopher, Tom Regan]
  • A. Peter Singer
    Peter Singer is an Australian moral philosopher known for his influential work in applied ethics, particularly animal rights and global poverty, grounded in a contemporary utilitarian framework.
  • B. Judith Jarvis Thomson
    Judith Jarvis Thomson was an American moral philosopher best known for her influential work on rights, personhood, and the ethics of abortion, including the famous "violinist" thought experiment.
  • C. John Harris
    John Harris is a fictional character known primarily as the husband of Bernadine Harris in the story.
  • D. John Harris
    John Harris is a songwriter known for co-writing the country hit "That's the Way Love Goes."
  • E. John Harris
    John Harris was an American statesman who represented South Carolina as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary era.
  • 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: Tom Regan
Triple: [animal rights movement, hasNotablePhilosopher, Tom Regan]
Generated description
Tom Regan was an American philosopher best known for his influential defense of animal rights based on the inherent value and moral standing of individual animals.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tom Regan
Target entity description: Tom Regan was an American philosopher best known for his influential defense of animal rights based on the inherent value and moral standing of individual animals.
  • A. Peter Singer
    Peter Singer is an Australian moral philosopher known for his influential work in applied ethics, particularly animal rights and global poverty, grounded in a contemporary utilitarian framework.
  • B. Judith Jarvis Thomson
    Judith Jarvis Thomson was an American moral philosopher best known for her influential work on rights, personhood, and the ethics of abortion, including the famous "violinist" thought experiment.
  • C. John Harris
    John Harris is a fictional character known primarily as the husband of Bernadine Harris in the story.
  • D. John Harris
    John Harris is a songwriter known for co-writing the country hit "That's the Way Love Goes."
  • E. John Harris
    John Harris was an American statesman who represented South Carolina as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary era.
  • 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_69ca842cbddc819099d71ecec48cf9e5 completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd5083cbb8819088e8cef26be1b380 completed April 1, 2026, 5:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d0f41a6ca4819092bae8640136e964 completed April 4, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d0f5127c688190b2b383cd0714a6c3 completed April 4, 2026, 11:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d0f61dc2b88190920d754f55caa4ec completed April 4, 2026, 11:29 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:43 p.m.