Triple

T823028
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hamilton E17790 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object William Rowan Hamilton
William Rowan Hamilton was a 19th-century Irish mathematician and physicist best known for developing quaternions and reformulating classical mechanics in what is now called Hamiltonian mechanics.
E101954 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: William Rowan Hamilton | Statement: [Hamilton, hasNotableBearer, William Rowan Hamilton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Rowan Hamilton
Context triple: [Hamilton, hasNotableBearer, William Rowan Hamilton]
  • A. James Clerk Maxwell
    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.
  • B. Augustus De Morgan
    Augustus De Morgan was a 19th-century British mathematician and logician known for formulating De Morgan's laws and contributing foundational work to symbolic logic.
  • C. William Whewell
    William Whewell was a 19th-century English polymath, philosopher, and historian of science known for coining key scientific terms and shaping the philosophy of scientific method.
  • D. Horace Lamb
    Horace Lamb was a British applied mathematician renowned for his foundational work in hydrodynamics and the theory of sound.
  • E. George Stokes
    George Stokes was a 19th-century Irish mathematician and physicist renowned for his foundational work in fluid dynamics, optics, and mathematical physics.
  • 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: William Rowan Hamilton
Triple: [Hamilton, hasNotableBearer, William Rowan Hamilton]
Generated description
William Rowan Hamilton was a 19th-century Irish mathematician and physicist best known for developing quaternions and reformulating classical mechanics in what is now called Hamiltonian mechanics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Rowan Hamilton
Target entity description: William Rowan Hamilton was a 19th-century Irish mathematician and physicist best known for developing quaternions and reformulating classical mechanics in what is now called Hamiltonian mechanics.
  • A. James Clerk Maxwell
    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.
  • B. Augustus De Morgan
    Augustus De Morgan was a 19th-century British mathematician and logician known for formulating De Morgan's laws and contributing foundational work to symbolic logic.
  • C. William Whewell
    William Whewell was a 19th-century English polymath, philosopher, and historian of science known for coining key scientific terms and shaping the philosophy of scientific method.
  • D. Horace Lamb
    Horace Lamb was a British applied mathematician renowned for his foundational work in hydrodynamics and the theory of sound.
  • E. George Stokes
    George Stokes was a 19th-century Irish mathematician and physicist renowned for his foundational work in fluid dynamics, optics, and mathematical physics.
  • 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_69a4937bcaac8190a322524ac6f45a5a completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ab7c139c8190b6d75661b5138d89 completed March 1, 2026, 9:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7a3b6f0a0819086f8789773f8251e completed March 4, 2026, 3:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7a51e0420819092f792ce0b5e69d3 completed March 4, 2026, 3:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7a5b041848190bfa91737c71c217c completed March 4, 2026, 3:23 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.