Triple

T130794
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Clerk Maxwell E2648 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object James David Forbes
James David Forbes was a 19th-century Scottish physicist and glaciologist known for his pioneering work on heat conduction and the flow of glaciers.
E87844 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: James David Forbes | Statement: [James Clerk Maxwell, influencedBy, James David Forbes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James David Forbes
Context triple: [James Clerk Maxwell, influencedBy, James David Forbes]
  • A. Charles Ranlett Flint
    Charles Ranlett Flint was an American financier and industrialist best known for orchestrating mergers that led to the creation of major corporations, including the company that became IBM.
  • B. John Galen Howard
    John Galen Howard was an influential American architect best known for shaping the early 20th-century architectural landscape of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
  • C. William Maxwell Aitken
    William Maxwell Aitken, better known as Lord Beaverbrook, was a powerful Canadian-British newspaper magnate and influential political figure in early 20th-century Britain.
  • D. John L. Lumley
    John L. Lumley was a prominent American fluid dynamicist known for his pioneering contributions to the understanding and modeling of turbulence.
  • E. George Burroughs
    George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
  • 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: James David Forbes
Triple: [James Clerk Maxwell, influencedBy, James David Forbes]
Generated description
James David Forbes was a 19th-century Scottish physicist and glaciologist known for his pioneering work on heat conduction and the flow of glaciers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James David Forbes
Target entity description: James David Forbes was a 19th-century Scottish physicist and glaciologist known for his pioneering work on heat conduction and the flow of glaciers.
  • A. Charles Ranlett Flint
    Charles Ranlett Flint was an American financier and industrialist best known for orchestrating mergers that led to the creation of major corporations, including the company that became IBM.
  • B. John Galen Howard
    John Galen Howard was an influential American architect best known for shaping the early 20th-century architectural landscape of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
  • C. William Maxwell Aitken
    William Maxwell Aitken, better known as Lord Beaverbrook, was a powerful Canadian-British newspaper magnate and influential political figure in early 20th-century Britain.
  • D. John L. Lumley
    John L. Lumley was a prominent American fluid dynamicist known for his pioneering contributions to the understanding and modeling of turbulence.
  • E. George Burroughs
    George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
  • 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_69a64a467f74819092d3b89baf4be2bc completed March 3, 2026, 2:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a64c24ed908190b124c1eab5b57cce completed March 3, 2026, 2:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a64c70803c81909cb7f3c0189733b4 completed March 3, 2026, 2:50 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:30 a.m.