Triple
T14507172
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Brian Slade |
E340292
|
entity |
| Predicate | usesAlias |
P23264
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Maxwell Demon |
E1102287
|
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: Maxwell Demon | Statement: [Brian Slade, usesAlias, Maxwell Demon]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maxwell Demon Context triple: [Brian Slade, usesAlias, Maxwell Demon]
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A.
Maxwell Demon
chosen
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Langevin
Langevin is a French surname most notably associated with physicist Paul Langevin and several other prominent figures in science and public life.
- 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_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_69fd7a4660c881908d0cdc27c277ae6b |
completed | May 8, 2026, 5:53 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:21 a.m.