Triple
T587772
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | On Physical Lines of Force |
E15196
|
entity |
| Predicate | authorName |
P15941
|
FINISHED |
| Object | James Clerk Maxwell |
E2648
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: James Clerk Maxwell | Statement: [On Physical Lines of Force, authorName, James Clerk Maxwell]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Clerk Maxwell Context triple: [On Physical Lines of Force, authorName, James Clerk Maxwell]
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A.
James Clerk Maxwell
chosen
James Clerk Maxwell was a 19th-century Scottish physicist best known for formulating the classical theory of electromagnetism, unifying electricity, magnetism, and light into a single framework.
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B.
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday was a pioneering 19th-century English scientist whose groundbreaking work in electromagnetism and electrochemistry laid the foundations for much of modern physics and electrical engineering.
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C.
Oliver Heaviside
Oliver Heaviside was an English self-taught physicist, electrical engineer, and mathematician known for reformulating Maxwell’s equations into their modern vector form and pioneering transmission line theory.
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D.
J. J. Thomson
J. J. Thomson was a British physicist best known for discovering the electron and proposing the "plum pudding" model of the atom.
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E.
Lord Kelvin
Lord Kelvin was a pioneering 19th-century physicist and engineer best known for his work on thermodynamics and the absolute temperature scale that bears his name.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: authorName Context triple: [On Physical Lines of Force, authorName, James Clerk Maxwell]
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A.
authorBirthName
Indicates the full personal name an author was given at birth, before any later name changes or pseudonyms.
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B.
firstPublicationAuthorName
Indicates the name of the author who wrote the work’s first published edition.
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C.
publisherPerson
Indicates that a person serves as the publisher (the individual responsible for issuing or releasing) of a given work or resource.
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D.
bookAuthors
Indicates the relationship between a book and the person or people who authored it.
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E.
authorNationality
Indicates the relationship between an author and the country or nationality with which that author is identified.
- 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_69a4935783b8819082b77726ec10cc42 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a49b9bf0cc8190a145ccd6fc501349 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:03 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a518c44ef0819088048289ed31246f |
completed | March 2, 2026, 4:57 a.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69a494ca68448190a516b9c3525d8916 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:34 p.m. |
| PDg | Predicate description generation | batch_69a4985ada988190aaea628a9b55bca4 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.