Triple
T10023310
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Optics (Ptolemy) |
E200663
|
entity |
| Predicate | influenced |
P9
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Alhazen's Book of Optics |
E437625
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Alhazen's Book of Optics | Statement: [Optics (Ptolemy), influenced, Alhazen's Book of Optics]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alhazen's Book of Optics Context triple: [Optics (Ptolemy), influenced, Alhazen's Book of Optics]
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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.
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B.
Al-Farghani's Elements of Astronomy
Al-Farghani's Elements of Astronomy is a foundational 9th-century Arabic treatise that systematically summarizes and explains Ptolemaic astronomy and became highly influential in both the Islamic world and medieval Europe.
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C.
Kitāb al-Manāẓir
chosen
Kitāb al-Manāẓir is Ibn al-Haytham’s foundational treatise on optics that systematically analyzes vision, light, and perception and profoundly influenced later Islamic and European science.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:53 p.m.