Triple

T4097017
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James David Forbes E87844 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Papers on the theory of heat conduction
"Papers on the theory of heat conduction" is a collection of influential 19th-century scientific works by James David Forbes that advanced the understanding of heat transfer in solids.
E412601 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: Papers on the theory of heat conduction | Statement: [James David Forbes, notableWork, Papers on the theory of heat conduction]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Papers on the theory of heat conduction
Context triple: [James David Forbes, notableWork, Papers on the theory of heat conduction]
  • A. Théorie analytique de la chaleur
    Théorie analytique de la chaleur is Joseph Fourier’s foundational 1822 treatise that introduced Fourier series and laid the mathematical groundwork for the modern theory of heat conduction and harmonic analysis.
  • B. On the Moving Force of Heat
    "On the Moving Force of Heat" is Rudolf Clausius’s foundational 1850 paper that helped establish the second law of thermodynamics and introduced key concepts leading to the modern understanding of entropy.
  • C. Fourier's law of heat conduction
    Fourier's law of heat conduction is a fundamental physical principle that relates heat flux within a material to the negative gradient of temperature, forming the basis of classical heat transfer theory.
  • D. Illustrations of the Dynamical Theory of Gases
    Illustrations of the Dynamical Theory of Gases is a foundational 1860 scientific paper by James Clerk Maxwell that introduced key ideas of kinetic theory and the statistical behavior of gas molecules.
  • E. The Dynamical Theory of Sound
    The Dynamical Theory of Sound is a foundational treatise by mathematician and physicist Horace Lamb that rigorously develops the mathematical principles underlying acoustics and wave propagation.
  • 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: Papers on the theory of heat conduction
Triple: [James David Forbes, notableWork, Papers on the theory of heat conduction]
Generated description
"Papers on the theory of heat conduction" is a collection of influential 19th-century scientific works by James David Forbes that advanced the understanding of heat transfer in solids.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Papers on the theory of heat conduction
Target entity description: "Papers on the theory of heat conduction" is a collection of influential 19th-century scientific works by James David Forbes that advanced the understanding of heat transfer in solids.
  • A. Théorie analytique de la chaleur
    Théorie analytique de la chaleur is Joseph Fourier’s foundational 1822 treatise that introduced Fourier series and laid the mathematical groundwork for the modern theory of heat conduction and harmonic analysis.
  • B. On the Moving Force of Heat
    "On the Moving Force of Heat" is Rudolf Clausius’s foundational 1850 paper that helped establish the second law of thermodynamics and introduced key concepts leading to the modern understanding of entropy.
  • C. Fourier's law of heat conduction
    Fourier's law of heat conduction is a fundamental physical principle that relates heat flux within a material to the negative gradient of temperature, forming the basis of classical heat transfer theory.
  • D. Illustrations of the Dynamical Theory of Gases
    Illustrations of the Dynamical Theory of Gases is a foundational 1860 scientific paper by James Clerk Maxwell that introduced key ideas of kinetic theory and the statistical behavior of gas molecules.
  • E. The Dynamical Theory of Sound
    The Dynamical Theory of Sound is a foundational treatise by mathematician and physicist Horace Lamb that rigorously develops the mathematical principles underlying acoustics and wave propagation.
  • 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_69aed94564cc8190a9c1457daedb6e7f completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aefcdef11081908c626a89f2c0e121 completed March 9, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b56b725788819091c6aaeccfb86964 completed March 14, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b56c5bb12881908cf2c74d68ecd5b6 completed March 14, 2026, 2:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b56cc2ae948190a5e13992626dd547 completed March 14, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:40 p.m.