Triple

T13200171
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wilhelm Ostwald E314219 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Ostwald ripening
Ostwald ripening is a process in materials science where larger particles grow at the expense of smaller ones due to differences in solubility or chemical potential, leading to coarsening of the system over time.
E1026604 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: Ostwald ripening | Statement: [Wilhelm Ostwald, notableWork, Ostwald ripening]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ostwald ripening
Context triple: [Wilhelm Ostwald, notableWork, Ostwald ripening]
  • A. Mullins–Sekerka instability
    The Mullins–Sekerka instability is a morphological instability that occurs during diffusion-limited solidification or crystal growth, leading to pattern formation such as dendrites at moving phase boundaries.
  • B. Becker–Döring theory of nucleation
    The Becker–Döring theory of nucleation is a classical kinetic model in statistical physics that describes how clusters of particles grow or shrink through the successive addition or loss of single monomers, providing a fundamental framework for understanding phase transitions and nucleation rates.
  • C. Smoluchowski coagulation equation
    The Smoluchowski coagulation equation is a fundamental integro-differential equation in statistical physics that models how particles undergoing random collisions aggregate over time into larger clusters.
  • D. Cahn–Hilliard equation
    The Cahn–Hilliard equation is a nonlinear partial differential equation that models phase separation and coarsening in binary mixtures and other systems undergoing spinodal decomposition.
  • E. Néel relaxation
    Néel relaxation is a magnetic relaxation process in which the magnetization of single-domain nanoparticles flips between energy minima due to thermal fluctuations without physical rotation of the particles.
  • 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: Ostwald ripening
Triple: [Wilhelm Ostwald, notableWork, Ostwald ripening]
Generated description
Ostwald ripening is a process in materials science where larger particles grow at the expense of smaller ones due to differences in solubility or chemical potential, leading to coarsening of the system over time.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ostwald ripening
Target entity description: Ostwald ripening is a process in materials science where larger particles grow at the expense of smaller ones due to differences in solubility or chemical potential, leading to coarsening of the system over time.
  • A. Mullins–Sekerka instability
    The Mullins–Sekerka instability is a morphological instability that occurs during diffusion-limited solidification or crystal growth, leading to pattern formation such as dendrites at moving phase boundaries.
  • B. Becker–Döring theory of nucleation
    The Becker–Döring theory of nucleation is a classical kinetic model in statistical physics that describes how clusters of particles grow or shrink through the successive addition or loss of single monomers, providing a fundamental framework for understanding phase transitions and nucleation rates.
  • C. Smoluchowski coagulation equation
    The Smoluchowski coagulation equation is a fundamental integro-differential equation in statistical physics that models how particles undergoing random collisions aggregate over time into larger clusters.
  • D. Cahn–Hilliard equation
    The Cahn–Hilliard equation is a nonlinear partial differential equation that models phase separation and coarsening in binary mixtures and other systems undergoing spinodal decomposition.
  • E. Néel relaxation
    Néel relaxation is a magnetic relaxation process in which the magnetization of single-domain nanoparticles flips between energy minima due to thermal fluctuations without physical rotation of the particles.
  • 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_69d806aee7308190b70a237ba2a6e3e1 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98c6591d881909a6ebc22246caead completed April 10, 2026, 11:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6f60ae01c8190aa7669d6f574df09 completed May 3, 2026, 7:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6f6ba509c8190a99426ba4506d31f completed May 3, 2026, 7:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6f812ae048190907b8def6b0d019c completed May 3, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:16 p.m.