Triple
T14507171
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Brian Slade |
E340292
|
entity |
| Predicate | stagePersonaOf |
P70717
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Maxwell Demon
Maxwell Demon is the flamboyant, glam-rock alter ego adopted by the fictional musician Brian Slade in the film "Velvet Goldmine."
|
E1102287
|
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: Maxwell Demon | Statement: [Brian Slade, stagePersonaOf, Maxwell Demon]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maxwell Demon Context triple: [Brian Slade, stagePersonaOf, Maxwell Demon]
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A.
Maxwell’s Demon
Maxwell’s Demon is a famous thought experiment in thermodynamics that imagines an intelligent being seemingly able to violate the second law of thermodynamics by sorting fast and slow gas molecules without expending energy.
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B.
Maxwell's demon thought experiment
Maxwell's demon thought experiment is a famous conceptual scenario in thermodynamics that imagines an intelligent being seemingly violating the second law by sorting fast and slow gas molecules without expending energy.
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C.
Laplace’s demon
Laplace’s demon is a hypothetical intellect in classical determinism that, knowing all forces and positions of particles at one time, could predict the entire future and reconstruct the entire past of the universe.
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D.
Homunculus
Homunculus is an artificial, alchemically created being of pure spirit in Goethe’s "Faust, Part Two," symbolizing the quest for idealized existence and intellectual creation.
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E.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
- 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: Maxwell Demon Triple: [Brian Slade, stagePersonaOf, Maxwell Demon]
Generated description
Maxwell Demon is the flamboyant, glam-rock alter ego adopted by the fictional musician Brian Slade in the film "Velvet Goldmine."
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maxwell Demon Target entity description: Maxwell Demon is the flamboyant, glam-rock alter ego adopted by the fictional musician Brian Slade in the film "Velvet Goldmine."
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A.
Maxwell’s Demon
Maxwell’s Demon is a famous thought experiment in thermodynamics that imagines an intelligent being seemingly able to violate the second law of thermodynamics by sorting fast and slow gas molecules without expending energy.
-
B.
Maxwell's demon thought experiment
Maxwell's demon thought experiment is a famous conceptual scenario in thermodynamics that imagines an intelligent being seemingly violating the second law by sorting fast and slow gas molecules without expending energy.
-
C.
Laplace’s demon
Laplace’s demon is a hypothetical intellect in classical determinism that, knowing all forces and positions of particles at one time, could predict the entire future and reconstruct the entire past of the universe.
-
D.
Homunculus
Homunculus is an artificial, alchemically created being of pure spirit in Goethe’s "Faust, Part Two," symbolizing the quest for idealized existence and intellectual creation.
-
E.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
- 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_69d822d9c0408190b9a2b3643e58bb4d |
completed | April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69de94e40e44819084f323f8f9982b75 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 7:26 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fd6da07ff481909fb2463b0ea92849 |
completed | May 8, 2026, 4:59 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69fd6eca4ff48190b7c16d92234cb43c |
completed | May 8, 2026, 5:04 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69fd6f38ea788190a957419ca1971b15 |
completed | May 8, 2026, 5:06 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:21 a.m.