Triple

T1036367
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Hutton E22371 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object John Playfair
John Playfair was an 18th–19th century Scottish mathematician, physicist, and geologist best known for popularizing James Hutton’s geological theories and for Playfair’s axiom in geometry.
E122070 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: John Playfair | Statement: [James Hutton, influenced, John Playfair]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Playfair
Context triple: [James Hutton, influenced, John Playfair]
  • A. Dugald Stewart
    Dugald Stewart was a prominent Scottish philosopher and mathematician known for advancing the Scottish Enlightenment through his influential work in moral philosophy and the philosophy of mind.
  • B. 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.
  • C. William Smith of Aberdeen
    William Smith of Aberdeen was a 19th-century Scottish architect noted for his significant contributions to Victorian architecture, including work on royal and public buildings.
  • D. David Hartley
    David Hartley was an 18th-century British politician and diplomat best known for representing Britain in negotiating and signing the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolutionary War.
  • E. Thomas Young
    Thomas Young was an English polymath and physician renowned for his pioneering work in optics, particularly the wave theory of light and the famous double-slit experiment.
  • 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: John Playfair
Triple: [James Hutton, influenced, John Playfair]
Generated description
John Playfair was an 18th–19th century Scottish mathematician, physicist, and geologist best known for popularizing James Hutton’s geological theories and for Playfair’s axiom in geometry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Playfair
Target entity description: John Playfair was an 18th–19th century Scottish mathematician, physicist, and geologist best known for popularizing James Hutton’s geological theories and for Playfair’s axiom in geometry.
  • A. Dugald Stewart
    Dugald Stewart was a prominent Scottish philosopher and mathematician known for advancing the Scottish Enlightenment through his influential work in moral philosophy and the philosophy of mind.
  • B. 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.
  • C. William Smith of Aberdeen
    William Smith of Aberdeen was a 19th-century Scottish architect noted for his significant contributions to Victorian architecture, including work on royal and public buildings.
  • D. David Hartley
    David Hartley was an 18th-century British politician and diplomat best known for representing Britain in negotiating and signing the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolutionary War.
  • E. Thomas Young
    Thomas Young was an English polymath and physician renowned for his pioneering work in optics, particularly the wave theory of light and the famous double-slit experiment.
  • 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_69a493d848848190aed4011b34b2e8d3 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b82a1014819085bfc077e24c9742 completed March 1, 2026, 10:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac3bc378fc8190846d5ffce73371dd completed March 7, 2026, 2:52 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac3df28858819091c594a9cb2aab07 completed March 7, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac3e5b716c8190b95fde14ee6c434a completed March 7, 2026, 3:03 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:41 p.m.