Triple

T1281487
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pierre de Fermat E27335 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Fermat point
The Fermat point is a special point inside a triangle that minimizes the total distance to the triangle’s three vertices.
E146192 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: Fermat point | Statement: [Pierre de Fermat, notableWork, Fermat point]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fermat point
Context triple: [Pierre de Fermat, notableWork, Fermat point]
  • A. The Angle
    The Angle is a prominent battlefield site at Gettysburg, marking the focal point of Pickett’s Charge and often referred to as the “High Water Mark of the Confederacy.”
  • B. Cauchy-à-la-Tour
    Cauchy-à-la-Tour is a small commune in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France.
  • C. Peuterey Integral
    Peuterey Integral is a legendary, highly committing alpine climbing route that follows the full Peuterey ridge to the summit of Mont Blanc, renowned as one of the longest and most serious ridge climbs in the Alps.
  • D. Géométrie de position
    Géométrie de position is a foundational 1803 treatise by Lazare Carnot that helped establish projective geometry and modern geometric reasoning about position and transformation.
  • E. Pythagorean theorem
    The Pythagorean theorem is a fundamental principle of geometry stating that in a right-angled triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
  • 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: Fermat point
Triple: [Pierre de Fermat, notableWork, Fermat point]
Generated description
The Fermat point is a special point inside a triangle that minimizes the total distance to the triangle’s three vertices.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fermat point
Target entity description: The Fermat point is a special point inside a triangle that minimizes the total distance to the triangle’s three vertices.
  • A. The Angle
    The Angle is a prominent battlefield site at Gettysburg, marking the focal point of Pickett’s Charge and often referred to as the “High Water Mark of the Confederacy.”
  • B. Cauchy-à-la-Tour
    Cauchy-à-la-Tour is a small commune in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France.
  • C. Peuterey Integral
    Peuterey Integral is a legendary, highly committing alpine climbing route that follows the full Peuterey ridge to the summit of Mont Blanc, renowned as one of the longest and most serious ridge climbs in the Alps.
  • D. Géométrie de position
    Géométrie de position is a foundational 1803 treatise by Lazare Carnot that helped establish projective geometry and modern geometric reasoning about position and transformation.
  • E. Pythagorean theorem
    The Pythagorean theorem is a fundamental principle of geometry stating that in a right-angled triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
  • 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_69a496d3710c8190955dee8bc0dacb50 completed March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c0b317788190a1672b5ee422a049 completed March 1, 2026, 10:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aca2fb746881909ac7a8dd672fc939 completed March 7, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aca3752a3c81908bd6d9744ad5f5a2 completed March 7, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aca3e44bf481908c5726adddc4b428 completed March 7, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.