Triple

T4427237
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ibn al-Haytham E95237 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object Witelo
Witelo was a 13th-century Polish scholar and philosopher best known for his influential work in optics, which synthesized and expanded upon earlier Islamic and classical theories of vision.
E437627 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: Witelo | Statement: [Ibn al-Haytham, influenced, Witelo]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Witelo
Context triple: [Ibn al-Haytham, influenced, Witelo]
  • A. Rudolff
    Rudolff is a given name notably borne by Gerald Rudolff Ford Sr., the stepfather and namesake of U.S. President Gerald R. Ford.
  • B. Albertus Pighius
    Albertus Pighius was a 16th-century Dutch Catholic theologian and humanist known for his vigorous defense of papal authority and opposition to Protestant reformers like John Calvin.
  • C. Reinhold
    Reinhold is the given first name of Reince Priebus, the American attorney and former White House Chief of Staff under President Donald Trump.
  • D. Regiomontanus
    Regiomontanus was a 15th-century German mathematician and astronomer whose advanced astronomical tables and theoretical work significantly shaped the development of Renaissance astronomy and influenced later figures like Copernicus.
  • E. Giovanni Battista Hodierna
    Giovanni Battista Hodierna was a 17th-century Italian astronomer and priest known for his early cataloging of nebulae and star clusters, including several deep-sky objects later popularized by Messier.
  • 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: Witelo
Triple: [Ibn al-Haytham, influenced, Witelo]
Generated description
Witelo was a 13th-century Polish scholar and philosopher best known for his influential work in optics, which synthesized and expanded upon earlier Islamic and classical theories of vision.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Witelo
Target entity description: Witelo was a 13th-century Polish scholar and philosopher best known for his influential work in optics, which synthesized and expanded upon earlier Islamic and classical theories of vision.
  • A. Rudolff
    Rudolff is a given name notably borne by Gerald Rudolff Ford Sr., the stepfather and namesake of U.S. President Gerald R. Ford.
  • B. Albertus Pighius
    Albertus Pighius was a 16th-century Dutch Catholic theologian and humanist known for his vigorous defense of papal authority and opposition to Protestant reformers like John Calvin.
  • C. Reinhold
    Reinhold is the given first name of Reince Priebus, the American attorney and former White House Chief of Staff under President Donald Trump.
  • D. Regiomontanus
    Regiomontanus was a 15th-century German mathematician and astronomer whose advanced astronomical tables and theoretical work significantly shaped the development of Renaissance astronomy and influenced later figures like Copernicus.
  • E. Giovanni Battista Hodierna
    Giovanni Battista Hodierna was a 17th-century Italian astronomer and priest known for his early cataloging of nebulae and star clusters, including several deep-sky objects later popularized by Messier.
  • 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_69b3453c2a0c8190926b574c90766db9 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b3554fb28081909018eaecc0c5c230 completed March 13, 2026, 12:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5f63495148190847f79d8cacb737e completed March 14, 2026, 11:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5f709063c81909334a5b21da99c22 completed March 15, 2026, 12:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5f7887cb08190bf498eefc3627bfa completed March 15, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:30 p.m.