Triple

T130789
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Clerk Maxwell E2648 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object Hendrik Lorentz
Hendrik Lorentz was a Dutch physicist renowned for his foundational work on electromagnetism and the Lorentz transformations, which were crucial to the development of Einstein’s theory of special relativity.
E18298 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: Hendrik Lorentz | Statement: [James Clerk Maxwell, influenced, Hendrik Lorentz]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hendrik Lorentz
Context triple: [James Clerk Maxwell, influenced, Hendrik Lorentz]
  • A. Ernst Mach
    Ernst Mach was an Austrian physicist and philosopher whose empiricist ideas about science and perception significantly shaped the development of logical positivism and modern philosophy of science.
  • B. Hermann von Helmholtz
    Hermann von Helmholtz was a 19th-century German physician and physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to physiology, optics, acoustics, and the conservation of energy.
  • C. Gustav Kirchhoff
    Gustav Kirchhoff was a 19th-century German physicist best known for formulating Kirchhoff's circuit laws and making foundational contributions to spectroscopy and thermal radiation.
  • D. James Clerk Maxwell
    James Clerk Maxwell was a 19th-century Scottish physicist best known for formulating the classical theory of electromagnetism, unifying electricity, magnetism, and light into a single framework.
  • E. Jean Perrin
    Jean Perrin was a French physicist who confirmed the atomic nature of matter through his pioneering experimental studies of Brownian motion, work for which he received the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • 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: Hendrik Lorentz
Triple: [James Clerk Maxwell, influenced, Hendrik Lorentz]
Generated description
Hendrik Lorentz was a Dutch physicist renowned for his foundational work on electromagnetism and the Lorentz transformations, which were crucial to the development of Einstein’s theory of special relativity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hendrik Lorentz
Target entity description: Hendrik Lorentz was a Dutch physicist renowned for his foundational work on electromagnetism and the Lorentz transformations, which were crucial to the development of Einstein’s theory of special relativity.
  • A. Ernst Mach
    Ernst Mach was an Austrian physicist and philosopher whose empiricist ideas about science and perception significantly shaped the development of logical positivism and modern philosophy of science.
  • B. Hermann von Helmholtz
    Hermann von Helmholtz was a 19th-century German physician and physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to physiology, optics, acoustics, and the conservation of energy.
  • C. Gustav Kirchhoff
    Gustav Kirchhoff was a 19th-century German physicist best known for formulating Kirchhoff's circuit laws and making foundational contributions to spectroscopy and thermal radiation.
  • D. James Clerk Maxwell
    James Clerk Maxwell was a 19th-century Scottish physicist best known for formulating the classical theory of electromagnetism, unifying electricity, magnetism, and light into a single framework.
  • E. Jean Perrin
    Jean Perrin was a French physicist who confirmed the atomic nature of matter through his pioneering experimental studies of Brownian motion, work for which he received the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • 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_69a2520c0f3481908b0ed054a2fca8d0 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25785ad5c819097c00f31719fea7e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2c939ea148190984dfd347b12d136 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2c99aa5348190a710ede093b2d1d7 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2c9f070788190aa96892ffdc58569 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:56 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:30 a.m.