Triple
T12703689
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | On the Moving Force of Heat |
E303524
|
entity |
| Predicate | impact |
P9
|
FINISHED |
| Object | influenced subsequent thermodynamic formulations by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) |
E62506
|
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: influenced subsequent thermodynamic formulations by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) | Statement: [On the Moving Force of Heat, impact, influenced subsequent thermodynamic formulations by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: influenced subsequent thermodynamic formulations by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) Context triple: [On the Moving Force of Heat, impact, influenced subsequent thermodynamic formulations by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)]
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A.
Rudolf Clausius
chosen
Rudolf Clausius was a 19th-century German physicist and mathematician who was a founding figure of thermodynamics, best known for formulating the second law and introducing the concept of entropy.
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B.
Clausius theorem
The Clausius theorem is a fundamental result in thermodynamics that formalizes the second law by relating the cyclic integral of heat transfer over temperature to entropy, showing that this quantity is always less than or equal to zero for any cyclic process.
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C.
Callen formulation of thermodynamics
The Callen formulation of thermodynamics is a modern, axiomatic approach that derives the laws of thermodynamics from a small set of postulates using state functions and Legendre transforms, as presented in Herbert B. Callen’s influential textbook.
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D.
Clausius statement of the second law of thermodynamics
The Clausius statement of the second law of thermodynamics asserts that heat cannot spontaneously flow from a colder body to a hotter body without external work being performed.
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E.
James Prescott Joule
James Prescott Joule was a 19th-century English physicist whose experiments on the mechanical equivalent of heat helped establish the principle of energy conservation and laid foundations for the first law of thermodynamics.
- 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_69d7bdef90d48190b46b88270e780946 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d961f0941081908a879cde0be48667 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:47 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f671b4832c8190abc17f5f33b3552a |
completed | May 2, 2026, 9:50 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:23 p.m.