Triple
T7805317
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Charles Wheatstone |
E180533
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Playfair cipher
The Playfair cipher is a manual symmetric encryption technique that encrypts pairs of letters using a 5×5 letter grid, historically used for military and diplomatic communications in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
|
E694375
|
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: Playfair cipher | Statement: [Charles Wheatstone, notableWork, Playfair cipher]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Playfair cipher Context triple: [Charles Wheatstone, notableWork, Playfair cipher]
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A.
Square cipher
The Square cipher is a block cipher and direct predecessor to the Rijndael algorithm (later standardized as AES), notable for introducing design ideas such as the wide trail strategy.
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B.
Playfair
Playfair is a Scottish surname most notably associated with John Playfair, an 18th–19th century mathematician and geologist known for popularizing geometry and scientific ideas.
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C.
de Vigenère
de Vigenère is the surname most famously associated with Blaise de Vigenère, the 16th-century French diplomat and cryptographer known for the Vigenère cipher.
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D.
Lucifer cipher
The Lucifer cipher is an early block cipher developed at IBM by Horst Feistel that served as a foundational design precursor to the Data Encryption Standard (DES).
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E.
Alberti cipher disk
The Alberti cipher disk is a 15th-century polyalphabetic substitution device, considered one of the earliest mechanical tools for encrypting messages and a foundational innovation in modern cryptography.
- 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: Playfair cipher Triple: [Charles Wheatstone, notableWork, Playfair cipher]
Generated description
The Playfair cipher is a manual symmetric encryption technique that encrypts pairs of letters using a 5×5 letter grid, historically used for military and diplomatic communications in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Playfair cipher Target entity description: The Playfair cipher is a manual symmetric encryption technique that encrypts pairs of letters using a 5×5 letter grid, historically used for military and diplomatic communications in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
Square cipher
The Square cipher is a block cipher and direct predecessor to the Rijndael algorithm (later standardized as AES), notable for introducing design ideas such as the wide trail strategy.
-
B.
Playfair
Playfair is a Scottish surname most notably associated with John Playfair, an 18th–19th century mathematician and geologist known for popularizing geometry and scientific ideas.
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C.
de Vigenère
de Vigenère is the surname most famously associated with Blaise de Vigenère, the 16th-century French diplomat and cryptographer known for the Vigenère cipher.
-
D.
Lucifer cipher
The Lucifer cipher is an early block cipher developed at IBM by Horst Feistel that served as a foundational design precursor to the Data Encryption Standard (DES).
-
E.
Alberti cipher disk
The Alberti cipher disk is a 15th-century polyalphabetic substitution device, considered one of the earliest mechanical tools for encrypting messages and a foundational innovation in modern cryptography.
- 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_69ca827e50cc8190a92a733577184938 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69caf63838b88190a085756db9ca25c4 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 10:16 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cb14439c8081908331caf450462a0e |
completed | March 31, 2026, 12:24 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69cb1638c9888190be533d55fd0b494f |
completed | March 31, 2026, 12:32 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69cb1a49beb4819090532acabb9391b1 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 12:50 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 4:35 p.m.