Triple
T4097022
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | James David Forbes |
E87844
|
entity |
| Predicate | influenced |
P9
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John Tyndall |
E137083
|
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: John Tyndall | Statement: [James David Forbes, influenced, John Tyndall]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Tyndall Context triple: [James David Forbes, influenced, John Tyndall]
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A.
John Tyndall
chosen
John Tyndall was a 19th-century Irish physicist known for his pioneering work on the scattering of light in the atmosphere and the absorption of infrared radiation by gases, which helped lay the foundations of climate science.
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B.
Lord Rayleigh
Lord Rayleigh, born John William Strutt, was a British physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his foundational work in wave theory, optics, and the discovery of argon.
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C.
James Glaisher
James Glaisher was a 19th-century British meteorologist and pioneering aeronaut who made significant high-altitude balloon ascents to study the atmosphere.
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D.
Lord Kelvin
Lord Kelvin was a pioneering 19th-century physicist and engineer best known for his work on thermodynamics and the absolute temperature scale that bears his name.
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E.
William Whewell
William Whewell was a 19th-century English polymath, philosopher, and historian of science known for coining key scientific terms and shaping the philosophy of scientific method.
- 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_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. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:40 p.m.