Triple

T21233739
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Musurgia Universalis E523287 entity
Predicate followedBy P78 FINISHED
Object Athanasius Kircher’s work "Phonurgia Nova"
Athanasius Kircher’s "Phonurgia Nova" is a 1673 treatise on acoustics and sound technology, notable for its early exploration of echo, sound transmission, and acoustic devices.
E1473884 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: Athanasius Kircher’s work "Phonurgia Nova" | Statement: [Musurgia Universalis, followedBy, Athanasius Kircher’s work "Phonurgia Nova"]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Athanasius Kircher’s work "Phonurgia Nova"
Context triple: [Musurgia Universalis, followedBy, Athanasius Kircher’s work "Phonurgia Nova"]
  • A. Kircherian bibliography of scientific and antiquarian works
    The Kircherian bibliography of scientific and antiquarian works is a comprehensive scholarly listing of the diverse publications by 17th-century polymath Athanasius Kircher, covering his contributions to fields such as natural philosophy, linguistics, theology, and archaeology.
  • B. Theodoric of Freiberg's De iride et radialibus impressionibus
    Theodoric of Freiberg's *De iride et radialibus impressionibus* is a seminal medieval treatise that offers one of the first correct scientific explanations of the rainbow through geometric and optical analysis.
  • C. Liber de problematibus astronomicis et de cochlea
    Liber de problematibus astronomicis et de cochlea is a late 16th-century scientific treatise by Guidobaldo del Monte that addresses various astronomical problems and the mechanics of the screw.
  • D. Opus Minus
    Opus Minus is a shorter, supplementary philosophical and scientific work by the medieval English scholar Roger Bacon, written to summarize and support the ideas of his larger Opus Majus.
  • E. Liber de cochlea
    Liber de cochlea is a mathematical treatise by Guidobaldo del Monte that analyzes the geometry and mechanics of the screw.
  • 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: Athanasius Kircher’s work "Phonurgia Nova"
Triple: [Musurgia Universalis, followedBy, Athanasius Kircher’s work "Phonurgia Nova"]
Generated description
Athanasius Kircher’s "Phonurgia Nova" is a 1673 treatise on acoustics and sound technology, notable for its early exploration of echo, sound transmission, and acoustic devices.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Athanasius Kircher’s work "Phonurgia Nova"
Target entity description: Athanasius Kircher’s "Phonurgia Nova" is a 1673 treatise on acoustics and sound technology, notable for its early exploration of echo, sound transmission, and acoustic devices.
  • A. Kircherian bibliography of scientific and antiquarian works
    The Kircherian bibliography of scientific and antiquarian works is a comprehensive scholarly listing of the diverse publications by 17th-century polymath Athanasius Kircher, covering his contributions to fields such as natural philosophy, linguistics, theology, and archaeology.
  • B. Theodoric of Freiberg's De iride et radialibus impressionibus
    Theodoric of Freiberg's *De iride et radialibus impressionibus* is a seminal medieval treatise that offers one of the first correct scientific explanations of the rainbow through geometric and optical analysis.
  • C. Liber de problematibus astronomicis et de cochlea
    Liber de problematibus astronomicis et de cochlea is a late 16th-century scientific treatise by Guidobaldo del Monte that addresses various astronomical problems and the mechanics of the screw.
  • D. Opus Minus
    Opus Minus is a shorter, supplementary philosophical and scientific work by the medieval English scholar Roger Bacon, written to summarize and support the ideas of his larger Opus Majus.
  • E. Liber de cochlea
    Liber de cochlea is a mathematical treatise by Guidobaldo del Monte that analyzes the geometry and mechanics of the screw.
  • 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_69e0b512ad94819087942b2ed925185f completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e7351e4b908190bc02f063e3822123 completed April 21, 2026, 8:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0986edbed88190885fc8cb47b9739a completed May 17, 2026, 9:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a098915325c8190bb956070b2714c95 completed May 17, 2026, 9:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a098a24f1948190aada13777f829700 completed May 17, 2026, 9:28 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 3:45 p.m.