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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.