Triple

T1414605
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lawrence Bragg E31884 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object Bragg's law
Bragg's law is a fundamental equation in X-ray crystallography that relates the angles at which X-rays are diffracted by crystal lattice planes to the spacing between those planes.
E162846 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: Bragg's law | Statement: [Lawrence Bragg, knownFor, Bragg's law]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bragg's law
Context triple: [Lawrence Bragg, knownFor, Bragg's law]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Poisson spot
    Poisson spot is a bright point of light that appears at the center of the shadow of a circular object due to wave diffraction, providing striking evidence for the wave nature of light.
  • C. Davisson–Germer experiment
    The Davisson–Germer experiment was a landmark 1927 physics experiment that demonstrated the wave nature of electrons through diffraction from a nickel crystal, providing key evidence for quantum mechanics and wave–particle duality.
  • D. Fraunhofer diffraction
    Fraunhofer diffraction is the far-field diffraction pattern of waves, typically light, observed when both the source and observation screen are effectively at infinite distance or made so with lenses, producing characteristic interference patterns.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Bragg's law
Triple: [Lawrence Bragg, knownFor, Bragg's law]
Generated description
Bragg's law is a fundamental equation in X-ray crystallography that relates the angles at which X-rays are diffracted by crystal lattice planes to the spacing between those planes.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bragg's law
Target entity description: Bragg's law is a fundamental equation in X-ray crystallography that relates the angles at which X-rays are diffracted by crystal lattice planes to the spacing between those planes.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Poisson spot
    Poisson spot is a bright point of light that appears at the center of the shadow of a circular object due to wave diffraction, providing striking evidence for the wave nature of light.
  • C. Davisson–Germer experiment
    The Davisson–Germer experiment was a landmark 1927 physics experiment that demonstrated the wave nature of electrons through diffraction from a nickel crystal, providing key evidence for quantum mechanics and wave–particle duality.
  • D. Fraunhofer diffraction
    Fraunhofer diffraction is the far-field diffraction pattern of waves, typically light, observed when both the source and observation screen are effectively at infinite distance or made so with lenses, producing characteristic interference patterns.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69a49919a994819086528951bc224775 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c3e5f9d08190861206934cd71fd8 completed March 1, 2026, 10:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ace5812abc819091894509e9d6bd77 completed March 8, 2026, 2:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ace95beb64819081f6f169c86105fd completed March 8, 2026, 3:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ace9bd8fcc8190b25515f2ba1284c0 completed March 8, 2026, 3:15 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:59 p.m.