Triple

T1260572
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lazare Carnot E12488 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Essai sur les machines en général
Essai sur les machines en général is a foundational treatise on mechanics and the theory of machines written by French mathematician and engineer Lazare Carnot.
E144234 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: Essai sur les machines en général | Statement: [Lazare Carnot, notableWork, Essai sur les machines en général]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Essai sur les machines en général
Context triple: [Lazare Carnot, notableWork, Essai sur les machines en général]
  • A. The Science of Mechanics
    The Science of Mechanics is Ernst Mach’s influential treatise that critically examines the foundations of classical mechanics and helped shape the development of modern physics and the philosophy of science.
  • B. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
    On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures is an 1832 treatise by Charles Babbage that analyzes industrial production, the division of labor, and the impact of machinery on economic efficiency and society.
  • C. Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts
    Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts is an influential early 19th-century work by polymath Thomas Young that systematically presents his experimental and theoretical contributions to physics, particularly in optics and mechanics.
  • D. 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.
  • E. The Machine of the World
    The Machine of the World is a famous allegorical vision in Luís de Camões’ epic poem *Os Lusíadas*, in which the cosmos and its secrets are revealed to the Portuguese explorers.
  • 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: Essai sur les machines en général
Triple: [Lazare Carnot, notableWork, Essai sur les machines en général]
Generated description
Essai sur les machines en général is a foundational treatise on mechanics and the theory of machines written by French mathematician and engineer Lazare Carnot.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Essai sur les machines en général
Target entity description: Essai sur les machines en général is a foundational treatise on mechanics and the theory of machines written by French mathematician and engineer Lazare Carnot.
  • A. The Science of Mechanics
    The Science of Mechanics is Ernst Mach’s influential treatise that critically examines the foundations of classical mechanics and helped shape the development of modern physics and the philosophy of science.
  • B. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
    On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures is an 1832 treatise by Charles Babbage that analyzes industrial production, the division of labor, and the impact of machinery on economic efficiency and society.
  • C. Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts
    Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts is an influential early 19th-century work by polymath Thomas Young that systematically presents his experimental and theoretical contributions to physics, particularly in optics and mechanics.
  • D. 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.
  • E. The Machine of the World
    The Machine of the World is a famous allegorical vision in Luís de Camões’ epic poem *Os Lusíadas*, in which the cosmos and its secrets are revealed to the Portuguese explorers.
  • 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_69a4933352e08190ac617291985e76c0 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bfc503e88190b237210a61228dd8 completed March 1, 2026, 10:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac93d044bc819091fd0cfa7a957640 completed March 7, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac9454d3f48190b4a8c7a8280bc6bd completed March 7, 2026, 9:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac95da6e7c8190a0a719aa9c9f7a51 completed March 7, 2026, 9:17 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.