Triple

T7596594

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Elias Ashmole	`E179870`	entity
Predicate	hasWork	`P6260`	FINISHED
Object	Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum is a 17th-century anthology of English alchemical and hermetic poetry compiled and edited by antiquary Elias Ashmole.	`E675489`	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: Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum | Statement: [Elias Ashmole, hasWork, Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum
Context triple: [Elias Ashmole, hasWork, Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum]

A. The Sceptical Chymist
The Sceptical Chymist is a 1661 scientific work by Robert Boyle that challenged traditional alchemy and helped lay the foundations of modern chemistry by proposing a corpuscular theory of matter.
B. Academia Naturae Curiosorum
Academia Naturae Curiosorum was the original Latin name of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, one of the oldest continuously existing scientific academies in the world.
C. Quaestiones ad Thalassium
Quaestiones ad Thalassium is a collection of theological questions and answers traditionally attributed to the early Christian monk and theologian Maximus the Confessor.
D. Paracelsian iatrochemistry
Paracelsian iatrochemistry was an early modern medical-chemical movement inspired by Paracelsus that sought to explain and treat disease through chemical principles and remedies rather than traditional Galenic humoral theory.
E. Parasceve ad Historiam Naturalem et Experimentalem
Parasceve ad Historiam Naturalem et Experimentalem is a methodological treatise by Francis Bacon that outlines the systematic collection and organization of natural and experimental histories as a foundation for his new scientific method.
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: Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum
Triple: [Elias Ashmole, hasWork, Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum]

Generated description

Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum is a 17th-century anthology of English alchemical and hermetic poetry compiled and edited by antiquary Elias Ashmole.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum
Target entity description: Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum is a 17th-century anthology of English alchemical and hermetic poetry compiled and edited by antiquary Elias Ashmole.

A. The Sceptical Chymist
The Sceptical Chymist is a 1661 scientific work by Robert Boyle that challenged traditional alchemy and helped lay the foundations of modern chemistry by proposing a corpuscular theory of matter.
B. Academia Naturae Curiosorum
Academia Naturae Curiosorum was the original Latin name of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, one of the oldest continuously existing scientific academies in the world.
C. Quaestiones ad Thalassium
Quaestiones ad Thalassium is a collection of theological questions and answers traditionally attributed to the early Christian monk and theologian Maximus the Confessor.
D. Paracelsian iatrochemistry
Paracelsian iatrochemistry was an early modern medical-chemical movement inspired by Paracelsus that sought to explain and treat disease through chemical principles and remedies rather than traditional Galenic humoral theory.
E. Parasceve ad Historiam Naturalem et Experimentalem
Parasceve ad Historiam Naturalem et Experimentalem is a methodological treatise by Francis Bacon that outlines the systematic collection and organization of natural and experimental histories as a foundation for his new scientific method.
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_69c69f3487ec8190bf7acdf2dd91e6d6`	completed	March 27, 2026, 3:16 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69c6f9d39e9481908bec42447c97e3f8`	completed	March 27, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_69c861a3263481908a178b99e487bde5`	completed	March 28, 2026, 11:17 p.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_69c8622eb5fc819092273e49464d0515`	completed	March 28, 2026, 11:20 p.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_69c8631e5c2c8190b1c593ca9bbf039c`	completed	March 28, 2026, 11:24 p.m.

Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:53 p.m.