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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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]
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A.
derivedFrom
Indicates that one entity originates, is obtained, or is developed from another source entity.
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B.
terminus
Indicates that one entity serves as the final endpoint or stopping place for another entity’s movement, route, or process.
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C.
coinedTerm
chosen
Indicates that an entity originated and introduced a particular term or expression into use.
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D.
developedFrom
Indicates that one entity originates, evolves, or is derived from another as its source or precursor.
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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.