Triple

T4723526
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Thomas Romney Robinson E104824 entity
Predicate hasWork P6260 FINISHED
Object A System of Mechanics
"A System of Mechanics" is a scientific work by John Thomas Romney Robinson that presents a structured treatment of the principles and laws governing mechanical phenomena.
E464705 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: A System of Mechanics | Statement: [John Thomas Romney Robinson, hasWork, A System of Mechanics]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A System of Mechanics
Context triple: [John Thomas Romney Robinson, hasWork, A System of Mechanics]
  • A. The Science of Mechanics
    The Science of Mechanics is Ernst Mach’s influential treatise that critically examines the foundations of classical mechanics and helped shape the development of modern physics and the philosophy of science.
  • B. On the Equilibrium of Planes
    On the Equilibrium of Planes is a foundational treatise by Archimedes that systematically develops the principles of statics and the law of the lever in classical mechanics.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Essai sur les machines en général
    Essai sur les machines en général is a foundational treatise on mechanics and the theory of machines written by French mathematician and engineer Lazare Carnot.
  • E. Mécanique analytique
    Mécanique analytique is Lagrange’s landmark 1788 treatise that reformulated classical mechanics using variational principles and generalized coordinates, laying the foundations of analytical mechanics.
  • 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: A System of Mechanics
Triple: [John Thomas Romney Robinson, hasWork, A System of Mechanics]
Generated description
"A System of Mechanics" is a scientific work by John Thomas Romney Robinson that presents a structured treatment of the principles and laws governing mechanical phenomena.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A System of Mechanics
Target entity description: "A System of Mechanics" is a scientific work by John Thomas Romney Robinson that presents a structured treatment of the principles and laws governing mechanical phenomena.
  • A. The Science of Mechanics
    The Science of Mechanics is Ernst Mach’s influential treatise that critically examines the foundations of classical mechanics and helped shape the development of modern physics and the philosophy of science.
  • B. On the Equilibrium of Planes
    On the Equilibrium of Planes is a foundational treatise by Archimedes that systematically develops the principles of statics and the law of the lever in classical mechanics.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Essai sur les machines en général
    Essai sur les machines en général is a foundational treatise on mechanics and the theory of machines written by French mathematician and engineer Lazare Carnot.
  • E. Mécanique analytique
    Mécanique analytique is Lagrange’s landmark 1788 treatise that reformulated classical mechanics using variational principles and generalized coordinates, laying the foundations of analytical mechanics.
  • 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_69bd43ed84648190ae0b7ee8e8d00482 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6444412c81908a7f6f17978df2d2 completed March 20, 2026, 3:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be10986d688190ad82e7f959c50434 completed March 21, 2026, 3:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be1430ef748190b452c62aa8adfdd1 completed March 21, 2026, 3:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be14bb589481908d984af9feb60e79 completed March 21, 2026, 3:47 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:18 p.m.