Triple
T1211918
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology |
E26019
|
entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Whewell |
E4566
|
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: William Whewell | Statement: [Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, author, William Whewell]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Whewell Context triple: [Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, author, William Whewell]
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A.
William Whewell
chosen
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.
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B.
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.
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C.
George Stoney
George Stoney was an Irish physicist and academic best known for introducing the term "electron" for the fundamental unit of electric charge.
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D.
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.
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E.
George Stokes
George Stokes was a 19th-century Irish mathematician and physicist renowned for his foundational work in fluid dynamics, optics, and mathematical physics.
- 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_69a4948331fc8190b531ac9bec71c491 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4bde581308190bbe30683bf6c48c3 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:29 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac9979cc0c8190b6ed1b6467a25ec1 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 9:32 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:46 p.m.