Triple
T21671587
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | E. T. Whittaker |
E534858
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Edmund Taylor Whittaker |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
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: Edmund Taylor Whittaker | Statement: [E. T. Whittaker, fullName, Edmund Taylor Whittaker]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edmund Taylor Whittaker Context triple: [E. T. Whittaker, fullName, Edmund Taylor Whittaker]
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A.
E. T. Whittaker
chosen
E. T. Whittaker was a British mathematician and physicist known for his influential work in mathematical analysis, special functions, and the history of science.
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B.
Horace Lamb
Horace Lamb was a British applied mathematician renowned for his foundational work in hydrodynamics and the theory of sound.
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C.
G. N. Watson
G. N. Watson was a British mathematician renowned for his work in special functions, particularly Bessel functions and q-series, and for helping to edit and disseminate Ramanujan’s mathematical notebooks.
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D.
Douglas Hartree
Douglas Hartree was a British physicist and mathematician known for pioneering numerical analysis and computational methods in quantum mechanics, particularly in atomic structure calculations.
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E.
John Edensor Littlewood
John Edensor Littlewood was a prominent 20th-century British mathematician known for his influential work in analysis, number theory, and the theory of functions, as well as his long and celebrated collaboration with G. H. Hardy.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69e0c46898008190aa618a4af55bd1ee |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ef8a0badd08190ad2ec2b8e46be379 |
completed | April 27, 2026, 4:08 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:37 p.m.