Triple

T736451
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Maxwell's demon thought experiment E14943 entity
Predicate relatedConcept P37 FINISHED
Object Szilard engine
The Szilard engine is a theoretical single-particle heat engine that illustrates the link between information and thermodynamic work, refining Maxwell’s demon by explicitly accounting for the information-processing cost.
E14943 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: Szilard engine | Statement: [Maxwell's demon thought experiment, relatedConcept, Szilard engine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Szilard engine
Context triple: [Maxwell's demon thought experiment, relatedConcept, Szilard engine]
  • A. Maxwell's demon thought experiment
    Maxwell's demon thought experiment is a famous conceptual scenario in thermodynamics that imagines an intelligent being seemingly violating the second law by sorting fast and slow gas molecules without expending energy.
  • B. Watt steam engine
    The Watt steam engine was a vastly improved steam engine developed in the late 18th century that greatly increased efficiency and helped power the Industrial Revolution.
  • C. Teller–Ulam design
    The Teller–Ulam design is the standard two-stage thermonuclear weapon architecture that enables the immense explosive power of modern hydrogen bombs through radiation-driven compression of a secondary fusion stage.
  • D. Fleming valve
    The Fleming valve is an early thermionic vacuum tube diode invented by John Ambrose Fleming that enabled the rectification and detection of radio signals, laying groundwork for modern electronics.
  • E. Dyson series
    The Dyson series is a perturbative expansion in quantum field theory that expresses time-ordered exponentials and scattering amplitudes as an infinite series of integrals, each term corresponding to a Feynman diagram.
  • 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: Szilard engine
Triple: [Maxwell's demon thought experiment, relatedConcept, Szilard engine]
Generated description
The Szilard engine is a theoretical single-particle heat engine that illustrates the link between information and thermodynamic work, refining Maxwell’s demon by explicitly accounting for the information-processing cost.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Szilard engine
Target entity description: The Szilard engine is a theoretical single-particle heat engine that illustrates the link between information and thermodynamic work, refining Maxwell’s demon by explicitly accounting for the information-processing cost.
  • A. Maxwell's demon thought experiment chosen
    Maxwell's demon thought experiment is a famous conceptual scenario in thermodynamics that imagines an intelligent being seemingly violating the second law by sorting fast and slow gas molecules without expending energy.
  • B. Watt steam engine
    The Watt steam engine was a vastly improved steam engine developed in the late 18th century that greatly increased efficiency and helped power the Industrial Revolution.
  • C. Teller–Ulam design
    The Teller–Ulam design is the standard two-stage thermonuclear weapon architecture that enables the immense explosive power of modern hydrogen bombs through radiation-driven compression of a secondary fusion stage.
  • D. Fleming valve
    The Fleming valve is an early thermionic vacuum tube diode invented by John Ambrose Fleming that enabled the rectification and detection of radio signals, laying groundwork for modern electronics.
  • E. Dyson series
    The Dyson series is a perturbative expansion in quantum field theory that expresses time-ordered exponentials and scattering amplitudes as an infinite series of integrals, each term corresponding to a Feynman diagram.
  • F. None of above.

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_69a4934d9930819099eed80096b0597d completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a5da30b88190afbd12ae6109cc1b completed March 1, 2026, 8:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a64a618c248190ab1bcecba04d3da8 completed March 3, 2026, 2:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a64b4c8bb88190aa413a4bed256129 completed March 3, 2026, 2:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a64beaafa0819099b02cca0f6c79b7 completed March 3, 2026, 2:48 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.