Triple
T289646
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Principles of Geology |
E5960
|
entity |
| Predicate | influencedBy |
P9
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John Playfair |
E22371
|
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: John Playfair | Statement: [Principles of Geology, influencedBy, John Playfair]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Playfair Context triple: [Principles of Geology, influencedBy, John Playfair]
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A.
William Whewell
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.
Henry Brougham
Henry Brougham was a prominent 19th-century British statesman, lawyer, and reformer who played a key role in the abolition of slavery and the passing of the 1832 Reform Act.
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D.
James Hutton
chosen
James Hutton was an 18th-century Scottish geologist often called the "father of modern geology" for developing the theory of uniformitarianism and recognizing the immense age of the Earth.
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E.
Robert Brown
Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist best known for his pioneering observations of the random motion of particles suspended in fluid, which led to the concept of Brownian motion.
- 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_69a25946a7ac8190a78871c210213272 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:56 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a25e4df5508190ab75115ac6b3964e |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 3:17 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a3a885fd4c8190a2293f73ba9c8a46 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 2:46 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 3:02 a.m.