Triple
T736472
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism |
E14944
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entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | James Clerk Maxwell |
E2648
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: [A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, author, James Clerk Maxwell]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Clerk Maxwell Context triple: [A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, author, 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.
Provenance (3 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_69a6666ebf2c8190b0b0f1b9aa8ac12d |
completed | March 3, 2026, 4:41 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.