Triple
T21794646
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | James Croll |
E538061
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entity |
| Predicate | influencedBy |
P9
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FINISHED |
| Object | William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) |
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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: William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) | Statement: [James Croll, influencedBy, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) Context triple: [James Croll, influencedBy, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)]
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A.
Lord Kelvin
chosen
Lord Kelvin was a pioneering 19th-century physicist and engineer best known for his work on thermodynamics and the absolute temperature scale that bears his name.
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B.
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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C.
James Maxwell
James Maxwell was a British architect known for designing prominent late 19th-century structures, including the iconic Blackpool Tower.
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D.
James Prescott Joule
James Prescott Joule was a 19th-century English physicist whose experiments on the mechanical equivalent of heat helped establish the principle of energy conservation and laid foundations for the first law of thermodynamics.
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E.
James Croll
James Croll was a 19th-century Scottish scientist and self-taught glaciologist whose pioneering work on orbital variations and climate laid early foundations for modern ice age theory.
- 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_69e0c4733f4081909a86622e7e6d15d2 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f0622329b08190b8cd9be714aca456 |
completed | April 28, 2026, 7:30 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:53 p.m.