Triple
T203856
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Whewell |
E4566
|
entity |
| Predicate | name |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Whewell |
E4566
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: William Whewell | Statement: [William Whewell, name, William Whewell]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Whewell Context triple: [William Whewell, name, William Whewell]
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A.
William Whewell
chosen
William Whewell was a 19th-century English polymath, philosopher, and historian of science known for coining key scientific terms and shaping the philosophy of scientific method.
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B.
Thomas Young
Thomas Young was an English polymath and physician renowned for his pioneering work in optics, particularly the wave theory of light and the famous double-slit experiment.
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C.
George Howard Darwin
George Howard Darwin was a British astronomer and mathematician known for his work on tidal theory and the evolution of the Earth–Moon system.
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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.
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E.
Simon Newcomb
Simon Newcomb was a 19th-century Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician renowned for his work in celestial mechanics, astronomical constants, and early studies of what became known as Benford's law.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a25737567c81908f9c505300239181 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:47 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a25be898ec8190b5e752a1d3b6f466 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 3:07 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a338e6c2bc81908fbc7402770ab35b |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 6:50 p.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:51 a.m.