Triple

T5390032
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Josiah Willard Gibbs E120298 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances
On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances is a foundational 1876–1878 treatise in thermodynamics by Josiah Willard Gibbs that introduced key concepts of chemical thermodynamics and phase equilibrium, including the Gibbs free energy.
E517571 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: On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances | Statement: [Josiah Willard Gibbs, notableWork, On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances
Context triple: [Josiah Willard Gibbs, notableWork, On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances]
  • A. Traité élémentaire de chimie
    Traité élémentaire de chimie is a foundational 1789 chemistry textbook by Antoine Lavoisier that helped establish modern chemical nomenclature and the law of conservation of mass.
  • B. Illustrations of the Dynamical Theory of Gases
    Illustrations of the Dynamical Theory of Gases is a foundational 1860 scientific paper by James Clerk Maxwell that introduced key ideas of kinetic theory and the statistical behavior of gas molecules.
  • C. On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences
    On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences is an influential 1834 scientific treatise by Mary Somerville that synthesizes contemporary knowledge across astronomy, physics, and other disciplines to highlight their underlying unity.
  • D. Théorie analytique de la chaleur
    Théorie analytique de la chaleur is Joseph Fourier’s foundational 1822 treatise that introduced Fourier series and laid the mathematical groundwork for the modern theory of heat conduction and harmonic analysis.
  • E. Wilhelm Ostwalds Annalen der Naturphilosophie
    Wilhelm Ostwalds Annalen der Naturphilosophie was an early 20th-century German philosophical journal, founded by chemist and philosopher Wilhelm Ostwald, that focused on natural philosophy and the foundations of science.
  • 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: On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances
Triple: [Josiah Willard Gibbs, notableWork, On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances]
Generated description
On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances is a foundational 1876–1878 treatise in thermodynamics by Josiah Willard Gibbs that introduced key concepts of chemical thermodynamics and phase equilibrium, including the Gibbs free energy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances
Target entity description: On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances is a foundational 1876–1878 treatise in thermodynamics by Josiah Willard Gibbs that introduced key concepts of chemical thermodynamics and phase equilibrium, including the Gibbs free energy.
  • A. Traité élémentaire de chimie
    Traité élémentaire de chimie is a foundational 1789 chemistry textbook by Antoine Lavoisier that helped establish modern chemical nomenclature and the law of conservation of mass.
  • B. Illustrations of the Dynamical Theory of Gases
    Illustrations of the Dynamical Theory of Gases is a foundational 1860 scientific paper by James Clerk Maxwell that introduced key ideas of kinetic theory and the statistical behavior of gas molecules.
  • C. On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences
    On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences is an influential 1834 scientific treatise by Mary Somerville that synthesizes contemporary knowledge across astronomy, physics, and other disciplines to highlight their underlying unity.
  • D. Théorie analytique de la chaleur
    Théorie analytique de la chaleur is Joseph Fourier’s foundational 1822 treatise that introduced Fourier series and laid the mathematical groundwork for the modern theory of heat conduction and harmonic analysis.
  • E. Wilhelm Ostwalds Annalen der Naturphilosophie
    Wilhelm Ostwalds Annalen der Naturphilosophie was an early 20th-century German philosophical journal, founded by chemist and philosopher Wilhelm Ostwald, that focused on natural philosophy and the foundations of science.
  • 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_69bd46354c648190a38b26f107010a96 completed March 20, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd8716ae9c8190a729222a8b9eb460 completed March 20, 2026, 5:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf336126ec8190ad6d59469eac07c5 completed March 22, 2026, 12:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf340a51848190b4722f456f997833 completed March 22, 2026, 12:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf34714e808190b06b47891ea31bbf completed March 22, 2026, 12:14 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:04 p.m.