Triple

T15994375
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lectures to My Students E387923 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object On the Choice of a Sphere
"On the Choice of a Sphere" is a section from Charles Spurgeon's classic pastoral training work "Lectures to My Students," offering practical guidance to ministers on selecting and focusing their field of labor.
E1188488 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: On the Choice of a Sphere | Statement: [Lectures to My Students, hasPart, On the Choice of a Sphere]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: On the Choice of a Sphere
Context triple: [Lectures to My Students, hasPart, On the Choice of a Sphere]
  • A. SPHERE
    SPHERE is a high-contrast imaging instrument on the Very Large Telescope designed primarily for directly observing and characterizing exoplanets and circumstellar disks.
  • B. The Choice of a Model
    The Choice of a Model is a painting by Spanish artist Mariano Fortuny, exemplifying his refined technique and interest in intimate, studio-based scenes.
  • C. Euler’s polyhedron formula
    Euler’s polyhedron formula is a fundamental result in topology and geometry that relates the numbers of vertices, edges, and faces of a convex polyhedron through the equation V − E + F = 2.
  • D. On Weights
    On Weights is an ancient treatise on the theory and measurement of weight, attributed to the Peripatetic philosopher Eudemus of Rhodes.
  • E. On the Curvature of Space
    "On the Curvature of Space" is a pioneering 1922 paper by Alexander Friedmann that introduced non-static, expanding-universe solutions to Einstein’s field equations, laying the theoretical foundation for modern cosmology.
  • 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: On the Choice of a Sphere
Triple: [Lectures to My Students, hasPart, On the Choice of a Sphere]
Generated description
"On the Choice of a Sphere" is a section from Charles Spurgeon's classic pastoral training work "Lectures to My Students," offering practical guidance to ministers on selecting and focusing their field of labor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: On the Choice of a Sphere
Target entity description: "On the Choice of a Sphere" is a section from Charles Spurgeon's classic pastoral training work "Lectures to My Students," offering practical guidance to ministers on selecting and focusing their field of labor.
  • A. SPHERE
    SPHERE is a high-contrast imaging instrument on the Very Large Telescope designed primarily for directly observing and characterizing exoplanets and circumstellar disks.
  • B. The Choice of a Model
    The Choice of a Model is a painting by Spanish artist Mariano Fortuny, exemplifying his refined technique and interest in intimate, studio-based scenes.
  • C. Euler’s polyhedron formula
    Euler’s polyhedron formula is a fundamental result in topology and geometry that relates the numbers of vertices, edges, and faces of a convex polyhedron through the equation V − E + F = 2.
  • D. On Weights
    On Weights is an ancient treatise on the theory and measurement of weight, attributed to the Peripatetic philosopher Eudemus of Rhodes.
  • E. On the Curvature of Space
    "On the Curvature of Space" is a pioneering 1922 paper by Alexander Friedmann that introduced non-static, expanding-universe solutions to Einstein’s field equations, laying the theoretical foundation for modern cosmology.
  • 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_69d86daa562c81908aacc179c0fe8fb5 completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e15785fad48190af0556e7ddfd29c5 completed April 16, 2026, 9:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffc3d5d72081908aa235c5ad9b5707 completed May 9, 2026, 11:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffc5444c1c8190854de5575b9ec1c5 completed May 9, 2026, 11:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffc5b95290819098b28c44c22b2799 completed May 9, 2026, 11:39 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:55 a.m.