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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.