Triple

T416936
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Young E8012 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts
Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts is an influential early 19th-century work by polymath Thomas Young that systematically presents his experimental and theoretical contributions to physics, particularly in optics and mechanics.
E52905 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: Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts | Statement: [Thomas Young, notableWork, Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts
Context triple: [Thomas Young, notableWork, Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts]
  • A. Opticks
    Opticks is Isaac Newton’s influential 1704 treatise that systematically explores the nature of light and color through experiments with prisms and lenses.
  • B. Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect
    Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect is an unfinished philosophical work by Baruch Spinoza that outlines a method for improving the mind to attain true knowledge and intellectual perfection.
  • C. History of the Inductive Sciences
    History of the Inductive Sciences is William Whewell’s comprehensive 19th-century survey of the development of scientific knowledge and methods from antiquity to his own time.
  • D. The Zetetic
    The Zetetic was the original title of the magazine now known as Skeptical Inquirer, an early publication devoted to critical examination of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
  • E. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
    A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism is James Clerk Maxwell’s foundational 19th-century work that systematically formulated the classical theory of electromagnetism, including the famous Maxwell’s equations.
  • 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: Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts
Triple: [Thomas Young, notableWork, Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts]
Generated description
Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts is an influential early 19th-century work by polymath Thomas Young that systematically presents his experimental and theoretical contributions to physics, particularly in optics and mechanics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts
Target entity description: Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts is an influential early 19th-century work by polymath Thomas Young that systematically presents his experimental and theoretical contributions to physics, particularly in optics and mechanics.
  • A. Opticks
    Opticks is Isaac Newton’s influential 1704 treatise that systematically explores the nature of light and color through experiments with prisms and lenses.
  • B. Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect
    Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect is an unfinished philosophical work by Baruch Spinoza that outlines a method for improving the mind to attain true knowledge and intellectual perfection.
  • C. History of the Inductive Sciences
    History of the Inductive Sciences is William Whewell’s comprehensive 19th-century survey of the development of scientific knowledge and methods from antiquity to his own time.
  • D. The Zetetic
    The Zetetic was the original title of the magazine now known as Skeptical Inquirer, an early publication devoted to critical examination of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
  • E. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
    A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism is James Clerk Maxwell’s foundational 19th-century work that systematically formulated the classical theory of electromagnetism, including the famous Maxwell’s equations.
  • 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_69a2e7f1d1bc81909cf2dc9754a3c334 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ee8ea7b88190b4970b9c2877fbd8 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a423a4debc819098e13855b550a72e completed March 1, 2026, 11:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a42418a28c81909ee31dfb1819b87f completed March 1, 2026, 11:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a42488226c81908c9c81567fed0efa completed March 1, 2026, 11:35 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:11 p.m.