Triple

T10023305
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Optics (Ptolemy) E200663 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object Euclid's Optics
Euclid's Optics is an ancient Greek treatise that systematically analyzes visual perception and perspective using geometric principles, laying foundational ideas for later optical theory.
E835241 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: Euclid's Optics | Statement: [Optics (Ptolemy), influencedBy, Euclid's Optics]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Euclid's Optics
Context triple: [Optics (Ptolemy), influencedBy, Euclid's Optics]
  • A. Book of Optics
    The Book of Optics is a foundational 11th-century scientific work that revolutionized the understanding of vision, light, and optics, laying key groundwork for the modern science of optics.
  • B. Commentary on Euclid's Elements
    Commentary on Euclid's Elements is a late antique philosophical and mathematical treatise by Proclus that analyzes and interprets Euclid’s foundational geometry text while preserving valuable information about earlier Greek mathematics.
  • C. An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
    An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision is a philosophical treatise by George Berkeley that explores how we perceive distance, size, and spatial properties through vision, arguing that such perceptions are learned rather than innate.
  • D. Traité de la lumière
    Traité de la lumière is a seminal 1690 scientific treatise that presents Christiaan Huygens’ wave theory of light, including the principle now known as Huygens’ principle.
  • E. Euclides adauctus et methodicus
    Euclides adauctus et methodicus is a 17th-century mathematical treatise by Guarino Guarini that expands and systematizes Euclidean geometry for advanced study and architectural application.
  • 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: Euclid's Optics
Triple: [Optics (Ptolemy), influencedBy, Euclid's Optics]
Generated description
Euclid's Optics is an ancient Greek treatise that systematically analyzes visual perception and perspective using geometric principles, laying foundational ideas for later optical theory.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Euclid's Optics
Target entity description: Euclid's Optics is an ancient Greek treatise that systematically analyzes visual perception and perspective using geometric principles, laying foundational ideas for later optical theory.
  • A. Book of Optics
    The Book of Optics is a foundational 11th-century scientific work that revolutionized the understanding of vision, light, and optics, laying key groundwork for the modern science of optics.
  • B. Commentary on Euclid's Elements
    Commentary on Euclid's Elements is a late antique philosophical and mathematical treatise by Proclus that analyzes and interprets Euclid’s foundational geometry text while preserving valuable information about earlier Greek mathematics.
  • C. An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
    An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision is a philosophical treatise by George Berkeley that explores how we perceive distance, size, and spatial properties through vision, arguing that such perceptions are learned rather than innate.
  • D. Traité de la lumière
    Traité de la lumière is a seminal 1690 scientific treatise that presents Christiaan Huygens’ wave theory of light, including the principle now known as Huygens’ principle.
  • E. Euclides adauctus et methodicus
    Euclides adauctus et methodicus is a 17th-century mathematical treatise by Guarino Guarini that expands and systematizes Euclidean geometry for advanced study and architectural application.
  • 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_69ca831c45f08190ac1505cc15076608 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdcd7c75548190aa604d90d63dc111 completed April 2, 2026, 1:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d26abb0ab08190b5bcf101c5680f3c completed April 5, 2026, 1:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d26cc38274819090cf10c2fcf43cc7 completed April 5, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d26d2c91fc8190bc40a678662c19aa completed April 5, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:53 p.m.