Triple

T3978819
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thales of Miletus E85706 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object Egyptian mathematics
Egyptian mathematics is the body of mathematical knowledge and techniques developed in ancient Egypt, notable for its practical arithmetic, geometry, and use of unit fractions in administrative, architectural, and surveying applications.
E403440 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: Egyptian mathematics | Statement: [Thales of Miletus, influencedBy, Egyptian mathematics]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Egyptian mathematics
Context triple: [Thales of Miletus, influencedBy, Egyptian mathematics]
  • A. Ancient Egyptian
    Ancient Egyptian is the extinct language of ancient Egypt, known from hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic scripts and regarded as one of the earliest recorded written languages in human history.
  • B. Egyptology
    Egyptology is the academic study of ancient Egypt’s language, history, archaeology, art, and culture, primarily through its written records and material remains.
  • C. Prutenic Tables
    The Prutenic Tables were influential 16th-century astronomical tables based on Copernican heliocentric theory, used for predicting planetary positions before being superseded by more accurate works like the Rudolphine Tables.
  • D. Egyptian antiquities
    Egyptian antiquities are ancient artifacts and artworks from the civilization of Egypt, including items such as statues, sarcophagi, reliefs, jewelry, and everyday objects spanning from the Predynastic period through the Roman era.
  • E. Maya numerals
    Maya numerals are a vigesimal (base-20) numeral system developed by the ancient Maya, notable for its use of dots and bars and an early concept of zero.
  • 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: Egyptian mathematics
Triple: [Thales of Miletus, influencedBy, Egyptian mathematics]
Generated description
Egyptian mathematics is the body of mathematical knowledge and techniques developed in ancient Egypt, notable for its practical arithmetic, geometry, and use of unit fractions in administrative, architectural, and surveying applications.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Egyptian mathematics
Target entity description: Egyptian mathematics is the body of mathematical knowledge and techniques developed in ancient Egypt, notable for its practical arithmetic, geometry, and use of unit fractions in administrative, architectural, and surveying applications.
  • A. Ancient Egyptian
    Ancient Egyptian is the extinct language of ancient Egypt, known from hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic scripts and regarded as one of the earliest recorded written languages in human history.
  • B. Egyptology
    Egyptology is the academic study of ancient Egypt’s language, history, archaeology, art, and culture, primarily through its written records and material remains.
  • C. Prutenic Tables
    The Prutenic Tables were influential 16th-century astronomical tables based on Copernican heliocentric theory, used for predicting planetary positions before being superseded by more accurate works like the Rudolphine Tables.
  • D. Egyptian antiquities
    Egyptian antiquities are ancient artifacts and artworks from the civilization of Egypt, including items such as statues, sarcophagi, reliefs, jewelry, and everyday objects spanning from the Predynastic period through the Roman era.
  • E. Maya numerals
    Maya numerals are a vigesimal (base-20) numeral system developed by the ancient Maya, notable for its use of dots and bars and an early concept of zero.
  • 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_69aed93908348190a26c8aaf4fab3e86 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aef9b9cdd08190b193735367b0b3cf completed March 9, 2026, 4:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5401dd24481908d143a9da6786757 completed March 14, 2026, 11:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5417d951c8190974f8449dd643eab completed March 14, 2026, 11:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5421a2fd4819094e82aec70837aeb completed March 14, 2026, 11:10 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:33 p.m.