Triple
T8701083
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | A Briefer History of Time |
E206532
|
entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Leonard Mlodinow |
E207534
|
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: Leonard Mlodinow | Statement: [A Briefer History of Time, author, Leonard Mlodinow]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Leonard Mlodinow Context triple: [A Briefer History of Time, author, Leonard Mlodinow]
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A.
Leonard Mlodinow
chosen
Leonard Mlodinow is an American physicist and author known for his popular science books and collaborations with Stephen Hawking on works about cosmology and the nature of reality.
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B.
David L. Goodstein
David L. Goodstein is an American physicist and educator known for his work in condensed matter physics, science education, and authorship of popular science books.
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C.
Paul C. W. Davies
Paul C. W. Davies is a British physicist, cosmologist, and astrobiologist known for his work on quantum field theory in curved spacetime, the foundations of physics, and popular science writing.
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D.
Lawrence M. Krauss
Lawrence M. Krauss is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and prominent science communicator known for his work on dark energy, the origins of the universe, and his outspoken advocacy of atheism and scientific skepticism.
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E.
Victor Stenger
Victor Stenger was an American particle physicist, philosopher, and prominent atheist author known for his critiques of religion and pseudoscience.
- 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_69ca83555b6c8190abe930dd397e863b |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cc58b38cf88190bfdcbac9c340cb96 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 11:28 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cef41657588190ba6f79c27658dd1b |
completed | April 2, 2026, 10:56 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:34 p.m.