Triple
T1463703
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Philip G. Saffman |
E31570
|
entity |
| Predicate | name |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Philip G. Saffman |
E31570
|
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: Philip G. Saffman | Statement: [Philip G. Saffman, name, Philip G. Saffman]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philip G. Saffman Context triple: [Philip G. Saffman, name, Philip G. Saffman]
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A.
Philip G. Saffman
chosen
Philip G. Saffman was a prominent British-American applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist known for his influential work on vortex dynamics and the theory of turbulence.
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B.
G. K. Batchelor
G. K. Batchelor was a prominent British applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist known for his foundational contributions to turbulence theory and for authoring the classic text "An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics."
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C.
Raymond E. Goldstein
Raymond E. Goldstein is a physicist renowned for his pioneering work in biological and nonlinear fluid dynamics, for which he received the APS Fluid Dynamics Prize.
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D.
G. I. Taylor
G. I. Taylor was a pioneering British physicist and applied mathematician renowned for his fundamental contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
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E.
Robert Kraichnan
Robert Kraichnan was a prominent theoretical physicist known for his influential contributions to the statistical theory of turbulence and fluid dynamics.
- 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_69a49917dfc081909acdbdf5d684f1ef |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4c5b89708819084fb9ba4ff293b8b |
completed | March 1, 2026, 11:03 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ad15a4d4b48190bda15e333f7efd7f |
completed | March 8, 2026, 6:22 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8 p.m.