Triple

T1261916
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Blaise Pascal E12519 entity
Predicate notableIdea P4 FINISHED
Object Pascal's law
Pascal's law is a fundamental principle of fluid mechanics stating that pressure applied to an enclosed fluid is transmitted undiminished in all directions throughout the fluid and to the walls of its container.
E144288 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: Pascal's law | Statement: [Blaise Pascal, notableIdea, Pascal's law]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pascal's law
Context triple: [Blaise Pascal, notableIdea, Pascal's law]
  • A. Boyle's law
    Boyle's law is a fundamental gas law in physics and chemistry stating that the pressure of a fixed amount of gas is inversely proportional to its volume at constant temperature.
  • B. Babinet's principle
    Babinet's principle is a fundamental concept in wave optics stating that the diffraction pattern from an opaque object is identical to that from a complementary aperture of the same shape, apart from the overall intensity.
  • C. Hooke's law
    Hooke's law is a fundamental principle of physics that states the force needed to extend or compress a spring is directly proportional to the displacement, within the elastic limit of the material.
  • D. Snell’s law of refraction
    Snell’s law of refraction is a fundamental principle in optics that relates the angles of incidence and refraction to the refractive indices of two media, governing how light bends when passing between them.
  • E. Bernoulli
    Bernoulli is the surname of a prominent Swiss family of mathematicians and scientists, including figures such as Jakob, Johann, and Daniel Bernoulli, who made foundational contributions to calculus, probability, and fluid dynamics.
  • 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: Pascal's law
Triple: [Blaise Pascal, notableIdea, Pascal's law]
Generated description
Pascal's law is a fundamental principle of fluid mechanics stating that pressure applied to an enclosed fluid is transmitted undiminished in all directions throughout the fluid and to the walls of its container.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pascal's law
Target entity description: Pascal's law is a fundamental principle of fluid mechanics stating that pressure applied to an enclosed fluid is transmitted undiminished in all directions throughout the fluid and to the walls of its container.
  • A. Boyle's law
    Boyle's law is a fundamental gas law in physics and chemistry stating that the pressure of a fixed amount of gas is inversely proportional to its volume at constant temperature.
  • B. Babinet's principle
    Babinet's principle is a fundamental concept in wave optics stating that the diffraction pattern from an opaque object is identical to that from a complementary aperture of the same shape, apart from the overall intensity.
  • C. Hooke's law
    Hooke's law is a fundamental principle of physics that states the force needed to extend or compress a spring is directly proportional to the displacement, within the elastic limit of the material.
  • D. Snell’s law of refraction
    Snell’s law of refraction is a fundamental principle in optics that relates the angles of incidence and refraction to the refractive indices of two media, governing how light bends when passing between them.
  • E. Bernoulli
    Bernoulli is the surname of a prominent Swiss family of mathematicians and scientists, including figures such as Jakob, Johann, and Daniel Bernoulli, who made foundational contributions to calculus, probability, and fluid dynamics.
  • 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_69a4bfc77f4c8190b97a0ceaa31cfd49 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.