Triple

T736455
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Maxwell's demon thought experiment E14943 entity
Predicate inspiredWorkBy P6828 FINISHED
Object Rolf Landauer
Rolf Landauer was a German-American physicist best known for formulating Landauer's principle, which links information theory and thermodynamics by quantifying the minimum possible energy cost of erasing a bit of information.
E87720 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: Rolf Landauer | Statement: [Maxwell's demon thought experiment, inspiredWorkBy, Rolf Landauer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rolf Landauer
Context triple: [Maxwell's demon thought experiment, inspiredWorkBy, Rolf Landauer]
  • A. William Shockley
    William Shockley was an American physicist and co-inventor of the transistor whose work helped launch the field of solid-state electronics and earned him a share of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • B. Gordon E. Moore
    Gordon E. Moore was an American engineer, co-founder of Intel Corporation, and originator of Moore’s Law, which predicted the exponential growth of computing power.
  • C. Claude Shannon
    Claude Shannon was an American mathematician and electrical engineer known as the "father of information theory" for founding the mathematical framework underlying digital communication and data compression.
  • D. Melvin Wydler
    Melvin Wydler was a U.S. Congressman whose legislative work on technology and innovation policy led to a federal law being named in his honor.
  • E. John R. Pierce
    John R. Pierce was an American engineer and scientist best known for his pioneering work in communications technology, including satellite and microwave systems, and for coining the term "transistor."
  • 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: Rolf Landauer
Triple: [Maxwell's demon thought experiment, inspiredWorkBy, Rolf Landauer]
Generated description
Rolf Landauer was a German-American physicist best known for formulating Landauer's principle, which links information theory and thermodynamics by quantifying the minimum possible energy cost of erasing a bit of information.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rolf Landauer
Target entity description: Rolf Landauer was a German-American physicist best known for formulating Landauer's principle, which links information theory and thermodynamics by quantifying the minimum possible energy cost of erasing a bit of information.
  • A. William Shockley
    William Shockley was an American physicist and co-inventor of the transistor whose work helped launch the field of solid-state electronics and earned him a share of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • B. Gordon E. Moore
    Gordon E. Moore was an American engineer, co-founder of Intel Corporation, and originator of Moore’s Law, which predicted the exponential growth of computing power.
  • C. Claude Shannon
    Claude Shannon was an American mathematician and electrical engineer known as the "father of information theory" for founding the mathematical framework underlying digital communication and data compression.
  • D. Melvin Wydler
    Melvin Wydler was a U.S. Congressman whose legislative work on technology and innovation policy led to a federal law being named in his honor.
  • E. John R. Pierce
    John R. Pierce was an American engineer and scientist best known for his pioneering work in communications technology, including satellite and microwave systems, and for coining the term "transistor."
  • 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_69a4934d9930819099eed80096b0597d completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4aa9ba3888190889a1ad554f73c5e completed March 1, 2026, 9:07 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.