Triple

T3236640
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Roger Penrose E67869 entity
Predicate developedConcept P73 FINISHED
Object Penrose stairs
The Penrose stairs is an impossible object and optical illusion depicting a staircase that appears to ascend or descend forever in a loop, defying the rules of Euclidean geometry.
E343161 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 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: Penrose stairs | Statement: [Roger Penrose, developedConcept, Penrose stairs]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Penrose stairs
Context triple: [Roger Penrose, developedConcept, Penrose stairs]
  • A. Penrose triangle
    The Penrose triangle is an impossible optical illusion figure that appears to be a solid three-dimensional triangle but cannot exist in Euclidean space.
  • B. Penrose
    Penrose is a neighborhood in Southwest Philadelphia known for its residential character and proximity to major city thoroughfares and the airport.
  • C. Dalí Triangle
    The Dalí Triangle is a cultural and tourist route in Catalonia, Spain, that links three key sites closely associated with the life and work of surrealist artist Salvador Dalí.
  • D. Potemkin Stairs
    Potemkin Stairs is a monumental 19th-century seaside staircase in Odesa, Ukraine, famed as a symbol of the city and for its iconic appearance in Sergei Eisenstein’s film "Battleship Potemkin."
  • E. Tulip Stairs
    Tulip Stairs is an elegant, self-supporting spiral staircase in the Queen’s House at Greenwich, celebrated as one of the first geometric cantilevered staircases in Britain.
  • 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: Penrose stairs
Triple: [Roger Penrose, developedConcept, Penrose stairs]
Generated description
The Penrose stairs is an impossible object and optical illusion depicting a staircase that appears to ascend or descend forever in a loop, defying the rules of Euclidean geometry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Penrose stairs
Target entity description: The Penrose stairs is an impossible object and optical illusion depicting a staircase that appears to ascend or descend forever in a loop, defying the rules of Euclidean geometry.
  • A. Penrose triangle
    The Penrose triangle is an impossible optical illusion figure that appears to be a solid three-dimensional triangle but cannot exist in Euclidean space.
  • B. Penrose
    Penrose is a neighborhood in Southwest Philadelphia known for its residential character and proximity to major city thoroughfares and the airport.
  • C. Dalí Triangle
    The Dalí Triangle is a cultural and tourist route in Catalonia, Spain, that links three key sites closely associated with the life and work of surrealist artist Salvador Dalí.
  • D. Potemkin Stairs
    Potemkin Stairs is a monumental 19th-century seaside staircase in Odesa, Ukraine, famed as a symbol of the city and for its iconic appearance in Sergei Eisenstein’s film "Battleship Potemkin."
  • E. Tulip Stairs
    Tulip Stairs is an elegant, self-supporting spiral staircase in the Queen’s House at Greenwich, celebrated as one of the first geometric cantilevered staircases in Britain.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 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_69ad858d27348190abb61c280b4c86a9 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adaee05d34819095dbce4db6ac8613 completed March 8, 2026, 5:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b28ea696a08190a17cbeeef7632977 completed March 12, 2026, 10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b2966f189c8190bb56daea54be8a93 completed March 12, 2026, 10:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b2d6bf36988190b394766e9821047c completed March 12, 2026, 3:07 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:08 p.m.