Triple

T1249137
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Charles Babbage E26833 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object Analytical Engine
The Analytical Engine was Charles Babbage’s pioneering 19th-century design for a fully programmable mechanical computer, featuring concepts like a central processing unit and memory that anticipated modern computing.
E141905 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: Analytical Engine | Statement: [Charles Babbage, knownFor, Analytical Engine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Analytical Engine
Context triple: [Charles Babbage, knownFor, Analytical Engine]
  • A. Differential analyzer
    The Differential Analyzer is an early analog mechanical computer designed to solve differential equations using interconnected rotating shafts and wheels.
  • B. Notes on the Analytical Engine
    Notes on the Analytical Engine is Ada Lovelace’s seminal commentary on Charles Babbage’s proposed mechanical computer, including what is often regarded as the first published computer program and visionary insights into general-purpose computation.
  • C. Ferranti Mark I computer
    The Ferranti Mark I computer was one of the world’s first commercially available general-purpose electronic computers, developed in the early 1950s from the Manchester Mark I design.
  • D. EDVAC
    EDVAC was one of the earliest electronic stored-program computers, pioneering the use of binary arithmetic and influencing the development of modern computer architecture.
  • E. ENIAC project
    The ENIAC project was an early U.S. military-funded effort during World War II to develop one of the first general-purpose electronic digital computers, laying foundational concepts for modern computing.
  • 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: Analytical Engine
Triple: [Charles Babbage, knownFor, Analytical Engine]
Generated description
The Analytical Engine was Charles Babbage’s pioneering 19th-century design for a fully programmable mechanical computer, featuring concepts like a central processing unit and memory that anticipated modern computing.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Analytical Engine
Target entity description: The Analytical Engine was Charles Babbage’s pioneering 19th-century design for a fully programmable mechanical computer, featuring concepts like a central processing unit and memory that anticipated modern computing.
  • A. Differential analyzer
    The Differential Analyzer is an early analog mechanical computer designed to solve differential equations using interconnected rotating shafts and wheels.
  • B. Notes on the Analytical Engine
    Notes on the Analytical Engine is Ada Lovelace’s seminal commentary on Charles Babbage’s proposed mechanical computer, including what is often regarded as the first published computer program and visionary insights into general-purpose computation.
  • C. Ferranti Mark I computer
    The Ferranti Mark I computer was one of the world’s first commercially available general-purpose electronic computers, developed in the early 1950s from the Manchester Mark I design.
  • D. EDVAC
    EDVAC was one of the earliest electronic stored-program computers, pioneering the use of binary arithmetic and influencing the development of modern computer architecture.
  • E. ENIAC project
    The ENIAC project was an early U.S. military-funded effort during World War II to develop one of the first general-purpose electronic digital computers, laying foundational concepts for modern computing.
  • 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_69a49487a9c48190ba9b05348fd1b53f completed March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bf83b32c81908648e5748b897247 completed March 1, 2026, 10:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac8f7f59148190a9f1cbd4af8a115e completed March 7, 2026, 8:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac8ff7ae0c81908ca8ace1f4159383 completed March 7, 2026, 8:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac905e121c819093c9d960b53a45b7 completed March 7, 2026, 8:53 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:47 p.m.