Triple

T4655449
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Irving Langmuir E102396 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object Langmuir circulation
Langmuir circulation is a wind-driven pattern of shallow, counter-rotating vortices in the upper ocean that organizes floating material into parallel streaks on the water surface.
E459379 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: Langmuir circulation | Statement: [Irving Langmuir, knownFor, Langmuir circulation]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Langmuir circulation
Context triple: [Irving Langmuir, knownFor, Langmuir circulation]
  • A. Ekman layer
    The Ekman layer is the thin region of fluid near a boundary (such as the ocean surface or seafloor) where the balance between friction and the Coriolis effect causes the flow to spiral with depth.
  • B. Ekman transport
    Ekman transport is an oceanographic process in which wind-driven surface waters move at an angle to the wind direction due to the Coriolis effect, causing net water transport perpendicular to the wind.
  • C. Rossby waves
    Rossby waves are large-scale atmospheric and oceanic waves driven by Earth's rotation and the variation of the Coriolis effect with latitude, playing a key role in shaping global weather and climate patterns.
  • D. Rayleigh–Taylor instability
    Rayleigh–Taylor instability is a fluid dynamics phenomenon in which the interface between two fluids of different densities becomes unstable when the lighter fluid pushes against the heavier one, leading to complex mixing patterns.
  • E. Saffman–Taylor instability
    The Saffman–Taylor instability is a fluid dynamics phenomenon in which a less viscous fluid penetrating a more viscous one in a confined geometry leads to finger-like interfacial patterns, often called viscous fingering.
  • 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: Langmuir circulation
Triple: [Irving Langmuir, knownFor, Langmuir circulation]
Generated description
Langmuir circulation is a wind-driven pattern of shallow, counter-rotating vortices in the upper ocean that organizes floating material into parallel streaks on the water surface.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Langmuir circulation
Target entity description: Langmuir circulation is a wind-driven pattern of shallow, counter-rotating vortices in the upper ocean that organizes floating material into parallel streaks on the water surface.
  • A. Ekman layer
    The Ekman layer is the thin region of fluid near a boundary (such as the ocean surface or seafloor) where the balance between friction and the Coriolis effect causes the flow to spiral with depth.
  • B. Ekman transport
    Ekman transport is an oceanographic process in which wind-driven surface waters move at an angle to the wind direction due to the Coriolis effect, causing net water transport perpendicular to the wind.
  • C. Rossby waves
    Rossby waves are large-scale atmospheric and oceanic waves driven by Earth's rotation and the variation of the Coriolis effect with latitude, playing a key role in shaping global weather and climate patterns.
  • D. Rayleigh–Taylor instability
    Rayleigh–Taylor instability is a fluid dynamics phenomenon in which the interface between two fluids of different densities becomes unstable when the lighter fluid pushes against the heavier one, leading to complex mixing patterns.
  • E. Saffman–Taylor instability
    The Saffman–Taylor instability is a fluid dynamics phenomenon in which a less viscous fluid penetrating a more viscous one in a confined geometry leads to finger-like interfacial patterns, often called viscous fingering.
  • 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_69bd43d823288190952279faa0d1d066 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6317ba70819089145766d3462e57 completed March 20, 2026, 3:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdfaf28c148190b46cf846528034c5 completed March 21, 2026, 1:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdfc6751988190917ec53a8e2e27ec completed March 21, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be009e6c488190b18e1b2b4b34ecef completed March 21, 2026, 2:21 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:14 p.m.