Triple

T1281481
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pierre de Fermat E27335 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Fermat's principle E141903 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: Fermat's principle | Statement: [Pierre de Fermat, notableWork, Fermat's principle]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fermat's principle
Context triple: [Pierre de Fermat, notableWork, Fermat's principle]
  • A. Fermat’s principle of least time chosen
    Fermat’s principle of least time is a fundamental variational principle in optics stating that light follows the path that takes the least time, from which many laws of geometrical optics can be derived.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Huygens–Fresnel principle
    The Huygens–Fresnel principle is a fundamental concept in wave optics that explains how every point on a wavefront acts as a source of secondary wavelets whose interference determines the wave’s subsequent propagation and diffraction.
  • D. 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.
  • E. principle of least action
    The principle of least action is a fundamental concept in physics stating that the path taken by a physical system between two states is the one for which a specific quantity called the action is minimized (or made stationary), forming the basis of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics.
  • 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_69a496d3710c8190955dee8bc0dacb50 completed March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c0b317788190a1672b5ee422a049 completed March 1, 2026, 10:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aca2fb746881909ac7a8dd672fc939 completed March 7, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.