Triple
T1261913
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Blaise Pascal |
E12519
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Pascal's calculator |
E12519
|
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: Pascal's calculator | Statement: [Blaise Pascal, notableWork, Pascal's calculator]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pascal's calculator Context triple: [Blaise Pascal, notableWork, Pascal's calculator]
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A.
Analytical Engine
The Analytical Engine was Charles Babbage’s pioneering 19th-century design for a fully programmable mechanical computer, featuring concepts like a central processing unit and memory that anticipated modern computing.
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B.
Differential analyzer
The Differential Analyzer is an early analog mechanical computer designed to solve differential equations using interconnected rotating shafts and wheels.
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C.
Notes on the Analytical Engine
Notes on the Analytical Engine is Ada Lovelace’s seminal commentary on Charles Babbage’s proposed mechanical computer, including what is often regarded as the first published computer program and visionary insights into general-purpose computation.
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D.
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage was a 19th-century English mathematician, inventor, and mechanical engineer best known for designing early programmable computing machines such as the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine.
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E.
Blaise Pascal
chosen
Blaise Pascal was a 17th-century French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and theologian known for foundational work in probability theory, projective geometry, fluid mechanics, and for inventing one of the first mechanical calculators.
- 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_69a4933352e08190ac617291985e76c0 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4bfc77f4c8190b97a0ceaa31cfd49 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:37 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac93d044bc819091fd0cfa7a957640 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 9:08 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.