Triple

T1807306
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bayesian inference E40249 entity
Predicate formalizedBy P8407 FINISHED
Object Thomas Bayes
Thomas Bayes was an 18th-century English statistician and Presbyterian minister best known for formulating Bayes’ theorem, which laid the foundation for Bayesian probability and inference.
E200668 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: Thomas Bayes | Statement: [Bayesian inference, formalizedBy, Thomas Bayes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Bayes
Context triple: [Bayesian inference, formalizedBy, Thomas Bayes]
  • A. Abraham de Moivre
    Abraham de Moivre was an 18th-century French mathematician known for his foundational work in probability theory, including early formulations related to the central limit theorem and De Moivre's formula in complex analysis.
  • B. Pierre-Simon Laplace
    Pierre-Simon Laplace was a French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer whose work laid the foundations of celestial mechanics, probability theory, and statistics.
  • C. John Arbuthnot
    John Arbuthnot was an 18th-century Scottish physician, mathematician, and satirist closely associated with Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope.
  • D. George Boole
    George Boole was a 19th-century English mathematician and logician whose development of Boolean algebra laid the foundations for modern symbolic logic and digital computer circuits.
  • E. John Napier
    John Napier was a Scottish mathematician best known for inventing logarithms and popularizing the use of the decimal point in arithmetic.
  • 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: Thomas Bayes
Triple: [Bayesian inference, formalizedBy, Thomas Bayes]
Generated description
Thomas Bayes was an 18th-century English statistician and Presbyterian minister best known for formulating Bayes’ theorem, which laid the foundation for Bayesian probability and inference.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Bayes
Target entity description: Thomas Bayes was an 18th-century English statistician and Presbyterian minister best known for formulating Bayes’ theorem, which laid the foundation for Bayesian probability and inference.
  • A. Abraham de Moivre
    Abraham de Moivre was an 18th-century French mathematician known for his foundational work in probability theory, including early formulations related to the central limit theorem and De Moivre's formula in complex analysis.
  • B. Pierre-Simon Laplace
    Pierre-Simon Laplace was a French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer whose work laid the foundations of celestial mechanics, probability theory, and statistics.
  • C. John Arbuthnot
    John Arbuthnot was an 18th-century Scottish physician, mathematician, and satirist closely associated with Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope.
  • D. George Boole
    George Boole was a 19th-century English mathematician and logician whose development of Boolean algebra laid the foundations for modern symbolic logic and digital computer circuits.
  • E. John Napier
    John Napier was a Scottish mathematician best known for inventing logarithms and popularizing the use of the decimal point in arithmetic.
  • 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_69a88643a3388190a612f2ebe1fb29e7 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa6598bd388190b5aa69b972cc8f0a completed March 6, 2026, 5:26 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adb5e137bc81908294dd6b67789526 completed March 8, 2026, 5:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adb69d10188190b78bece656249ecd completed March 8, 2026, 5:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adb8c122e881908f0640edc5aaf305 completed March 8, 2026, 5:58 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.