Triple

T15091351
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ernst Abbe E360422 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Abbe refractometer
The Abbe refractometer is a precision optical instrument used to measure the refractive index and dispersion of liquids and transparent solids, widely employed in chemistry, food, and materials analysis.
E1136546 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: Abbe refractometer | Statement: [Ernst Abbe, notableWork, Abbe refractometer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Abbe refractometer
Context triple: [Ernst Abbe, notableWork, Abbe refractometer]
  • A. Beckmann-Tube
    Beckmann-Tube is the surname of Minna Beckmann-Tube, a German painter and opera singer active in the early 20th century.
  • B. Fizeau interferometer
    The Fizeau interferometer is an optical instrument that uses the interference of light reflected between closely spaced surfaces to make highly precise measurements of distances, surface flatness, and refractive index.
  • C. Weld-Blundell Prism
    The Weld-Blundell Prism is a clay cuneiform artifact from ancient Mesopotamia that preserves the most complete surviving version of the Sumerian King List, detailing legendary and historical rulers.
  • D. Michelson interferometer
    The Michelson interferometer is a precision optical instrument that splits and recombines light beams to measure extremely small differences in path length, widely used in fundamental physics experiments and metrology.
  • E. Wollaston prism
    A Wollaston prism is an optical device made of two birefringent crystal wedges cemented together to split a beam of light into two orthogonally polarized rays.
  • 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: Abbe refractometer
Triple: [Ernst Abbe, notableWork, Abbe refractometer]
Generated description
The Abbe refractometer is a precision optical instrument used to measure the refractive index and dispersion of liquids and transparent solids, widely employed in chemistry, food, and materials analysis.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Abbe refractometer
Target entity description: The Abbe refractometer is a precision optical instrument used to measure the refractive index and dispersion of liquids and transparent solids, widely employed in chemistry, food, and materials analysis.
  • A. Beckmann-Tube
    Beckmann-Tube is the surname of Minna Beckmann-Tube, a German painter and opera singer active in the early 20th century.
  • B. Fizeau interferometer
    The Fizeau interferometer is an optical instrument that uses the interference of light reflected between closely spaced surfaces to make highly precise measurements of distances, surface flatness, and refractive index.
  • C. Weld-Blundell Prism
    The Weld-Blundell Prism is a clay cuneiform artifact from ancient Mesopotamia that preserves the most complete surviving version of the Sumerian King List, detailing legendary and historical rulers.
  • D. Michelson interferometer
    The Michelson interferometer is a precision optical instrument that splits and recombines light beams to measure extremely small differences in path length, widely used in fundamental physics experiments and metrology.
  • E. Wollaston prism
    A Wollaston prism is an optical device made of two birefringent crystal wedges cemented together to split a beam of light into two orthogonally polarized rays.
  • 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_69d85a035aa88190b52a139d3a1b7b6d completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e0027925788190b955fdc6626adf7d completed April 15, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69feae1d7a0c819096b035f8ca8d0e90 completed May 9, 2026, 3:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69feaf8e1b508190b0b5ceb64d44fad6 completed May 9, 2026, 3:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69feb038065c8190b60266644db64092 completed May 9, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:04 a.m.