Triple
T4552023
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | A Mathematician's Apology |
E120386
|
entity |
| Predicate | prefaceBy |
P7669
|
FINISHED |
| Object | C. P. Snow |
E149530
|
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: C. P. Snow | Statement: [A Mathematician's Apology, prefaceBy, C. P. Snow]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: C. P. Snow Context triple: [A Mathematician's Apology, prefaceBy, C. P. Snow]
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A.
C. P. Snow
chosen
C. P. Snow was a British scientist, novelist, and government administrator best known for his "Two Cultures" lecture on the divide between the sciences and the humanities.
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B.
Raymond Priestley
Raymond Priestley was a British geologist and Antarctic explorer who later became a prominent academic and university administrator.
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C.
John Desmond Bernal
John Desmond Bernal was a pioneering Irish-born scientist who helped found the field of X-ray crystallography and made major contributions to structural biology and the social role of science.
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D.
Jacob Bronowski
Jacob Bronowski was a Polish-born British mathematician, historian of science, and broadcaster best known for his influential 1973 television series "The Ascent of Man."
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E.
John Randall
John Randall was a British physicist and biophysicist known for his leadership in molecular biology research at King's College London, where crucial work on the structure of DNA was carried out.
- 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_69bd4636f1648190a701445c2fcd9c17 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 1:05 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd57f7b9748190af29d02fc77b02e0 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 2:21 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69bdb95b01b0819094a600752e41aa09 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 9:17 p.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:09 p.m.