Triple

T872784
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ada Lovelace E18849 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object Mary Somerville
Mary Somerville was a 19th-century Scottish mathematician, astronomer, and science writer whose work in popularizing and synthesizing scientific knowledge helped shape early modern mathematics and influenced figures like Ada Lovelace.
E106338 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: Mary Somerville | Statement: [Ada Lovelace, influencedBy, Mary Somerville]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Somerville
Context triple: [Ada Lovelace, influencedBy, Mary Somerville]
  • A. Cordelia Whewell
    Cordelia Whewell was the wife of 19th-century English polymath and philosopher William Whewell, known primarily through her marriage into his intellectual and academic circle.
  • B. Margaret Maskelyne
    Margaret Maskelyne was the wife of British colonial figure Robert Clive and a member of a prominent 18th-century English family that included the Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne.
  • C. Emma Darwin
    Emma Darwin was an English woman best known as the devoted wife and first cousin of naturalist Charles Darwin, who supported his scientific work and managed their large family.
  • D. Mary Horner Lyell
    Mary Horner Lyell was a 19th-century British conchologist and scientific illustrator who collaborated closely with her geologist husband Charles Lyell on his research and travels.
  • E. Alicia Boole
    Alicia Boole was an Irish-English mathematician known for her pioneering work on four-dimensional geometry and polytopes.
  • 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: Mary Somerville
Triple: [Ada Lovelace, influencedBy, Mary Somerville]
Generated description
Mary Somerville was a 19th-century Scottish mathematician, astronomer, and science writer whose work in popularizing and synthesizing scientific knowledge helped shape early modern mathematics and influenced figures like Ada Lovelace.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Somerville
Target entity description: Mary Somerville was a 19th-century Scottish mathematician, astronomer, and science writer whose work in popularizing and synthesizing scientific knowledge helped shape early modern mathematics and influenced figures like Ada Lovelace.
  • A. Cordelia Whewell
    Cordelia Whewell was the wife of 19th-century English polymath and philosopher William Whewell, known primarily through her marriage into his intellectual and academic circle.
  • B. Margaret Maskelyne
    Margaret Maskelyne was the wife of British colonial figure Robert Clive and a member of a prominent 18th-century English family that included the Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne.
  • C. Emma Darwin
    Emma Darwin was an English woman best known as the devoted wife and first cousin of naturalist Charles Darwin, who supported his scientific work and managed their large family.
  • D. Mary Horner Lyell
    Mary Horner Lyell was a 19th-century British conchologist and scientific illustrator who collaborated closely with her geologist husband Charles Lyell on his research and travels.
  • E. Alicia Boole
    Alicia Boole was an Irish-English mathematician known for her pioneering work on four-dimensional geometry and polytopes.
  • 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_69a4938db1f081909bcd1ad2713b6096 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ac97d0f88190b67fcb7fc058e4b9 completed March 1, 2026, 9:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7c71e7c448190aa128bfaf26daead completed March 4, 2026, 5:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7c7cf47ac8190a4338a715189e802 completed March 4, 2026, 5:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7c888cd98819082dc39739d14dc67 completed March 4, 2026, 5:52 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.