Triple

T1138214
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Beddoes E23186 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Contributions to Physical and Medical Knowledge
"Contributions to Physical and Medical Knowledge" is a scientific work by physician Thomas Beddoes that explores early medical and physiological theories, particularly in relation to chemistry and respiratory health.
E129499 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: Contributions to Physical and Medical Knowledge | Statement: [Thomas Beddoes, notableWork, Contributions to Physical and Medical Knowledge]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Contributions to Physical and Medical Knowledge
Context triple: [Thomas Beddoes, notableWork, Contributions to Physical and Medical Knowledge]
  • A. Lessons in Elementary Physiology
    Lessons in Elementary Physiology is a 19th-century introductory textbook on human physiology and biology written by Thomas Henry Huxley for educational use.
  • B. National Institutes of Health intramural research program
    The National Institutes of Health intramural research program is a large, government-funded biomedical research enterprise in which NIH scientists conduct basic, translational, and clinical studies within NIH facilities.
  • C. History of the Inductive Sciences
    History of the Inductive Sciences is William Whewell’s comprehensive 19th-century survey of the development of scientific knowledge and methods from antiquity to his own time.
  • D. An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses
    *An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses* is an 18th-century medical treatise by William Withering that systematically documents the therapeutic effects of digitalis (foxglove) in treating heart disease, laying foundations for modern cardiology and pharmacology.
  • E. Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania
    Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania is the faculty practice plan and outpatient clinical arm of Penn Medicine, providing patient care across a wide range of specialties in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania’s health system.
  • 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: Contributions to Physical and Medical Knowledge
Triple: [Thomas Beddoes, notableWork, Contributions to Physical and Medical Knowledge]
Generated description
"Contributions to Physical and Medical Knowledge" is a scientific work by physician Thomas Beddoes that explores early medical and physiological theories, particularly in relation to chemistry and respiratory health.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Contributions to Physical and Medical Knowledge
Target entity description: "Contributions to Physical and Medical Knowledge" is a scientific work by physician Thomas Beddoes that explores early medical and physiological theories, particularly in relation to chemistry and respiratory health.
  • A. Lessons in Elementary Physiology
    Lessons in Elementary Physiology is a 19th-century introductory textbook on human physiology and biology written by Thomas Henry Huxley for educational use.
  • B. National Institutes of Health intramural research program
    The National Institutes of Health intramural research program is a large, government-funded biomedical research enterprise in which NIH scientists conduct basic, translational, and clinical studies within NIH facilities.
  • C. History of the Inductive Sciences
    History of the Inductive Sciences is William Whewell’s comprehensive 19th-century survey of the development of scientific knowledge and methods from antiquity to his own time.
  • D. An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses
    *An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses* is an 18th-century medical treatise by William Withering that systematically documents the therapeutic effects of digitalis (foxglove) in treating heart disease, laying foundations for modern cardiology and pharmacology.
  • E. Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania
    Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania is the faculty practice plan and outpatient clinical arm of Penn Medicine, providing patient care across a wide range of specialties in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania’s health system.
  • 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_69a493ec75988190b63a11bafaec29b4 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bc25dda481909a26d726fdbdbb50 completed March 1, 2026, 10:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac59b020d48190bc6ecbdb720c6779 completed March 7, 2026, 5 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac5a7599048190a46b0d560270ffa4 completed March 7, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac5af24a948190a37c832508149a48 completed March 7, 2026, 5:05 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.