Triple

T6474404
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Hyde Wollaston E146033 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object Wollaston prism
A Wollaston prism is an optical device made of two birefringent crystal wedges cemented together to split a beam of light into two orthogonally polarized rays.
E595644 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: Wollaston prism | Statement: [William Hyde Wollaston, knownFor, Wollaston prism]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wollaston prism
Context triple: [William Hyde Wollaston, knownFor, Wollaston prism]
  • A. Fresnel lens
    A Fresnel lens is a compact, lightweight lens design composed of concentric rings that allows lighthouses and other optical systems to project powerful, focused beams of light over long distances.
  • B. Mach–Zehnder interferometer
    The Mach–Zehnder interferometer is an optical device that splits and recombines light beams to produce interference patterns, widely used to demonstrate and study fundamental principles of quantum mechanics and wave interference.
  • C. Fresnel
    Fresnel is a surname most famously associated with Augustin-Jean Fresnel, the French physicist whose pioneering work on wave optics and the Fresnel lens revolutionized the understanding and application of light.
  • D. Arago ring
    The Arago ring is a faint, narrow planetary ring encircling Neptune, named after the French astronomer François Arago.
  • E. Grille spectrometer
    The Grille spectrometer is a spaceborne infrared spectrometer designed to study the composition and structure of planetary and Earth atmospheres by analyzing their emitted and absorbed radiation.
  • 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: Wollaston prism
Triple: [William Hyde Wollaston, knownFor, Wollaston prism]
Generated description
A Wollaston prism is an optical device made of two birefringent crystal wedges cemented together to split a beam of light into two orthogonally polarized rays.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wollaston prism
Target entity description: A Wollaston prism is an optical device made of two birefringent crystal wedges cemented together to split a beam of light into two orthogonally polarized rays.
  • A. Fresnel lens
    A Fresnel lens is a compact, lightweight lens design composed of concentric rings that allows lighthouses and other optical systems to project powerful, focused beams of light over long distances.
  • B. Mach–Zehnder interferometer
    The Mach–Zehnder interferometer is an optical device that splits and recombines light beams to produce interference patterns, widely used to demonstrate and study fundamental principles of quantum mechanics and wave interference.
  • C. Fresnel
    Fresnel is a surname most famously associated with Augustin-Jean Fresnel, the French physicist whose pioneering work on wave optics and the Fresnel lens revolutionized the understanding and application of light.
  • D. Arago ring
    The Arago ring is a faint, narrow planetary ring encircling Neptune, named after the French astronomer François Arago.
  • E. Grille spectrometer
    The Grille spectrometer is a spaceborne infrared spectrometer designed to study the composition and structure of planetary and Earth atmospheres by analyzing their emitted and absorbed radiation.
  • 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_69c008fec7408190af7b146dc63d9750 completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c06a341360819082f2b5496a1a68b0 completed March 22, 2026, 10:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c653a2b2508190a3691412f853ed6f completed March 27, 2026, 9:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6552b90848190961250b1e64595e1 completed March 27, 2026, 10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c655bce7548190b4c5661a7aaa77e1 completed March 27, 2026, 10:02 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:50 p.m.