Triple

T32059
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge E639 entity
Predicate derivesTermFrom P118 FINISHED
Object 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.
E4566 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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 Whewell | Statement: [Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, derivesTermFrom, William Whewell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Whewell
Context triple: [Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, derivesTermFrom, William Whewell]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Erasmus Darwin
    Erasmus Darwin was an 18th-century English physician, natural philosopher, and poet who proposed early ideas about biological evolution and influenced later evolutionary thought.
  • C. George Boole
    George Boole was a 19th-century English mathematician and logician whose development of Boolean algebra laid the foundations for modern symbolic logic and digital computer circuits.
  • D. Charles Lyell
    Charles Lyell was a pioneering 19th-century Scottish geologist whose work on uniformitarianism and deep geological time profoundly shaped modern geology and influenced evolutionary thinkers.
  • E. Isaac Newton
    Isaac Newton was a 17th-century English mathematician, physicist, and natural philosopher whose formulation of classical mechanics and universal gravitation laid the foundations of modern science.
  • 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: William Whewell
Triple: [Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, derivesTermFrom, William Whewell]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Whewell
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Erasmus Darwin
    Erasmus Darwin was an 18th-century English physician, natural philosopher, and poet who proposed early ideas about biological evolution and influenced later evolutionary thought.
  • C. George Boole
    George Boole was a 19th-century English mathematician and logician whose development of Boolean algebra laid the foundations for modern symbolic logic and digital computer circuits.
  • D. Charles Lyell
    Charles Lyell was a pioneering 19th-century Scottish geologist whose work on uniformitarianism and deep geological time profoundly shaped modern geology and influenced evolutionary thinkers.
  • E. Isaac Newton
    Isaac Newton was a 17th-century English mathematician, physicist, and natural philosopher whose formulation of classical mechanics and universal gravitation laid the foundations of modern science.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: derivesTermFrom
Context triple: [Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, derivesTermFrom, William Whewell]
  • A. derivedFrom
    Indicates that one entity originates, is obtained, or is developed from another source entity.
  • B. terminus
    Indicates that one entity serves as the final endpoint or stopping place for another entity’s movement, route, or process.
  • C. coinedTerm chosen
    Indicates that an entity originated and introduced a particular term or expression into use.
  • D. developedFrom
    Indicates that one entity originates, evolves, or is derived from another as its source or precursor.
  • E. formedBy
    Indicates that something comes into existence or is created as a result of a specific agent, process, or combination of components.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69a2479dec388190967ba648663442c9 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a249ec0d288190ac3a0939db61813b completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:50 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a255307eac81908d0055775ef3c965 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a255cc192c8190b2c0aa68ac97ad1f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:41 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a256a191bc8190a0cb3151ece43e13 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:44 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69a24870417081909c7c01e400c94716 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:44 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:44 a.m.