Triple

T32669135
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Euclid's Optics E835241 entity
Predicate relatedWork P37 FINISHED
Object Hero of Alexandria's Catoptrica
Hero of Alexandria's *Catoptrica* is an ancient Greek treatise on the geometry and behavior of reflected light, particularly the properties of mirrors and visual perception.
E2017985 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: Hero of Alexandria's Catoptrica | Statement: [Euclid's Optics, relatedWork, Hero of Alexandria's Catoptrica]
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: Hero of Alexandria's Catoptrica
Triple: [Euclid's Optics, relatedWork, Hero of Alexandria's Catoptrica]
Generated description
Hero of Alexandria's *Catoptrica* is an ancient Greek treatise on the geometry and behavior of reflected light, particularly the properties of mirrors and visual perception.

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_69f349303ccc8190a70d0f6e8a21d3fb completed April 30, 2026, 12:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f6c7ab10a88190bc44bfb0e61ead52 completed May 3, 2026, 3:57 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a349eb4ab288190bd21b3bc8275b4c0 completed June 19, 2026, 1:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a349f1cf3288190ad3a15ae7016c12a completed June 19, 2026, 1:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a349f54fad881908d4fb08bf4d88008 completed June 19, 2026, 1:45 a.m.
Created at: May 1, 2026, 1:08 a.m.