Triple

T1165468
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rumford Medal E24588 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object John Tyndall
John Tyndall was a 19th-century Irish physicist known for his pioneering work on the scattering of light in the atmosphere and the absorption of infrared radiation by gases, which helped lay the foundations of climate science.
E137083 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 Tyndall | Statement: [Rumford Medal, notableRecipient, John Tyndall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Tyndall
Context triple: [Rumford Medal, notableRecipient, John Tyndall]
  • A. Lord Rayleigh
    Lord Rayleigh, born John William Strutt, was a British physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his foundational work in wave theory, optics, and the discovery of argon.
  • B. Lord Kelvin
    Lord Kelvin was a pioneering 19th-century physicist and engineer best known for his work on thermodynamics and the absolute temperature scale that bears his name.
  • 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. George Stokes
    George Stokes was a 19th-century Irish mathematician and physicist renowned for his foundational work in fluid dynamics, optics, and mathematical physics.
  • E. George Stoney
    George Stoney was an Irish physicist and academic best known for introducing the term "electron" for the fundamental unit of electric charge.
  • 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 Tyndall
Triple: [Rumford Medal, notableRecipient, John Tyndall]
Generated description
John Tyndall was a 19th-century Irish physicist known for his pioneering work on the scattering of light in the atmosphere and the absorption of infrared radiation by gases, which helped lay the foundations of climate science.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Tyndall
Target entity description: John Tyndall was a 19th-century Irish physicist known for his pioneering work on the scattering of light in the atmosphere and the absorption of infrared radiation by gases, which helped lay the foundations of climate science.
  • A. Lord Rayleigh
    Lord Rayleigh, born John William Strutt, was a British physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his foundational work in wave theory, optics, and the discovery of argon.
  • B. Lord Kelvin
    Lord Kelvin was a pioneering 19th-century physicist and engineer best known for his work on thermodynamics and the absolute temperature scale that bears his name.
  • 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. George Stokes
    George Stokes was a 19th-century Irish mathematician and physicist renowned for his foundational work in fluid dynamics, optics, and mathematical physics.
  • E. George Stoney
    George Stoney was an Irish physicist and academic best known for introducing the term "electron" for the fundamental unit of electric charge.
  • 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_69a494060e148190abb42f971242c197 completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bccc62a88190882d8801908015a4 completed March 1, 2026, 10:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac7645abc8819086de42185bd403ed completed March 7, 2026, 7:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac76f20f308190be3c831eb2d59763 completed March 7, 2026, 7:05 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac77585c708190b5f4b239d9574cd7 completed March 7, 2026, 7:07 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.