Triple
T4066296
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics |
E86330
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entity |
| Predicate | firstHolder |
P291
|
FINISHED |
| Object | James Clerk Maxwell |
E2648
|
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: James Clerk Maxwell | Statement: [Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics, firstHolder, James Clerk Maxwell]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Clerk Maxwell Context triple: [Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics, firstHolder, James Clerk Maxwell]
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A.
James Clerk Maxwell
chosen
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.
James Maxwell
James Maxwell was a British architect known for designing prominent late 19th-century structures, including the iconic Blackpool Tower.
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C.
Joseph Larmor
Joseph Larmor was an Irish physicist and mathematician known for his work on electromagnetism, the electron theory, and for formulating the concept of Larmor precession.
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D.
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday was a pioneering 19th-century English scientist whose groundbreaking work in electromagnetism and electrochemistry laid the foundations for much of modern physics and electrical engineering.
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E.
Oliver Heaviside
Oliver Heaviside was an English self-taught physicist, electrical engineer, and mathematician known for reformulating Maxwell’s equations into their modern vector form and pioneering transmission line theory.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69aed93c69208190a4efac0efe3cd69b |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aefbf58d9c8190936e453b0d397cb0 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 4:57 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b562b17c888190ac4771f2bb4f0d58 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 1:29 p.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:38 p.m.