Triple
T22786116
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Philo Mechanicus |
E563970
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entity |
| Predicate | influenced |
P9
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FINISHED |
| Object | Heron of Alexandria |
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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: Heron of Alexandria | Statement: [Philo Mechanicus, influenced, Heron of Alexandria]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Heron of Alexandria Context triple: [Philo Mechanicus, influenced, Heron of Alexandria]
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A.
Hero of Alexandria
chosen
Hero of Alexandria was an ancient Greek engineer and mathematician known for his pioneering work in mechanics, pneumatics, and early steam-powered devices.
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B.
Heron of Arles
Heron of Arles was a 5th-century Christian bishop from the city of Arles, known for his involvement in early Church councils and theological disputes.
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C.
Ctesibius
Ctesibius was an ancient Greek engineer and inventor, often regarded as the father of pneumatics for his pioneering work on devices using air and water pressure.
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D.
Archimedes
Archimedes was an ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, and engineer renowned for foundational contributions to geometry, hydrostatics, and mechanics that shaped later scientific thought.
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E.
Archimedes
Archimedes is a family of personal computers developed by Acorn Computers in the late 1980s, notable for introducing the ARM architecture.
- 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_69e2455500788190b4b33030461f3bbd |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f17c321f848190a4443aa6bb4e57d7 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 3:34 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:29 p.m.