Triple
T11687168
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Christopher Zeeman |
E277772
|
entity |
| Predicate | influencedBy |
P9
|
FINISHED |
| Object | René Thom |
E159495
|
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: René Thom | Statement: [Christopher Zeeman, influencedBy, René Thom]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: René Thom Context triple: [Christopher Zeeman, influencedBy, René Thom]
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A.
René Thom
chosen
René Thom was a French mathematician renowned for developing catastrophe theory and making fundamental contributions to topology, for which he received the Fields Medal.
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B.
Charles Ehresmann
Charles Ehresmann was a French mathematician known for his foundational work in differential topology and category theory, including the development of concepts such as fiber bundles and Lie groupoids.
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C.
Georges de Rham
Georges de Rham was a Swiss mathematician best known for developing de Rham cohomology, a fundamental tool in algebraic topology linking differential forms with topological invariants.
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D.
Stephen Smale
Stephen Smale is an American mathematician renowned for his work in topology, dynamical systems, and mathematical economics, and as a recipient of the Fields Medal.
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E.
Raoul Bott
Raoul Bott was a Hungarian-American mathematician renowned for his fundamental contributions to topology, geometry, and mathematical physics, including the Bott periodicity theorem.
- 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_69d6aafe02d881909900d54ad7d4af84 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d8a4654be881909bd0256cf18e25de |
completed | April 10, 2026, 7:19 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ef14431f3c81908af9167c46f8c2bc |
completed | April 27, 2026, 7:46 a.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:40 p.m.