Triple

T13686381
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Claude Cohen-Tannoudji E328138 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object Sisyphus cooling
Sisyphus cooling is a laser cooling technique that uses spatially varying light fields to repeatedly slow atoms as they climb potential energy hills, enabling them to reach extremely low temperatures.
E1054401 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: Sisyphus cooling | Statement: [Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, knownFor, Sisyphus cooling]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sisyphus cooling
Context triple: [Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, knownFor, Sisyphus cooling]
  • A. Doppler cooling
    Doppler cooling is a laser-based technique used to reduce the thermal motion of atoms or ions by exploiting the Doppler effect to selectively slow particles moving toward the light source.
  • B. Bose–Einstein condensate
    A Bose–Einstein condensate is an exotic state of matter formed when a dilute gas of bosons is cooled to temperatures near absolute zero, causing a large fraction of the particles to occupy the same quantum state and behave as a single quantum entity.
  • C. Ioffe–Pritchard trap
    The Ioffe–Pritchard trap is a magnetic confinement device that creates a three-dimensional minimum in magnetic field strength to stably trap neutral atoms or antimatter such as antihydrogen.
  • D. Einstein–Szilard refrigerator
    The Einstein–Szilard refrigerator is an early 20th-century absorption refrigerator design that uses no moving parts and was created to provide a safer, more reliable alternative to conventional refrigerators that relied on toxic gases.
  • E. Szilard–Chalmers effect
    The Szilard–Chalmers effect is a nuclear chemistry phenomenon in which atoms that undergo neutron capture and become radioactive are chemically separated from their original, non-activated atoms due to recoil-induced disruption of their chemical bonds.
  • 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: Sisyphus cooling
Triple: [Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, knownFor, Sisyphus cooling]
Generated description
Sisyphus cooling is a laser cooling technique that uses spatially varying light fields to repeatedly slow atoms as they climb potential energy hills, enabling them to reach extremely low temperatures.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sisyphus cooling
Target entity description: Sisyphus cooling is a laser cooling technique that uses spatially varying light fields to repeatedly slow atoms as they climb potential energy hills, enabling them to reach extremely low temperatures.
  • A. Doppler cooling
    Doppler cooling is a laser-based technique used to reduce the thermal motion of atoms or ions by exploiting the Doppler effect to selectively slow particles moving toward the light source.
  • B. Bose–Einstein condensate
    A Bose–Einstein condensate is an exotic state of matter formed when a dilute gas of bosons is cooled to temperatures near absolute zero, causing a large fraction of the particles to occupy the same quantum state and behave as a single quantum entity.
  • C. Ioffe–Pritchard trap
    The Ioffe–Pritchard trap is a magnetic confinement device that creates a three-dimensional minimum in magnetic field strength to stably trap neutral atoms or antimatter such as antihydrogen.
  • D. Einstein–Szilard refrigerator
    The Einstein–Szilard refrigerator is an early 20th-century absorption refrigerator design that uses no moving parts and was created to provide a safer, more reliable alternative to conventional refrigerators that relied on toxic gases.
  • E. Szilard–Chalmers effect
    The Szilard–Chalmers effect is a nuclear chemistry phenomenon in which atoms that undergo neutron capture and become radioactive are chemically separated from their original, non-activated atoms due to recoil-induced disruption of their chemical bonds.
  • 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_69d8076f1fa8819094664a59b55010df completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbc670968881908e2b4fdf656c7285 completed April 12, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7944981ec8190be5ff39b7c2c70ab completed May 3, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f795e361c48190b37060312e7df181 completed May 3, 2026, 6:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f796e5c60c8190a19389bc4cdbd658 completed May 3, 2026, 6:41 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:53 p.m.