Triple

T16991859
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Twelvefold Way E412211 entity
Predicate relatesTo P37 FINISHED
Object Stirling numbers of the first kind
Stirling numbers of the first kind are a family of combinatorial numbers that count permutations by their number of cycles and appear in expansions relating falling factorials to ordinary powers.
E1246955 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: Stirling numbers of the first kind | Statement: [The Twelvefold Way, relatesTo, Stirling numbers of the first kind]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stirling numbers of the first kind
Context triple: [The Twelvefold Way, relatesTo, Stirling numbers of the first kind]
  • A. Stirling numbers of the second kind
    Stirling numbers of the second kind are a family of combinatorial numbers that count the ways to partition a set of n labeled elements into k nonempty, unlabeled subsets.
  • B. Bell numbers
    Bell numbers are a sequence in combinatorics that count the number of ways to partition a finite set into nonempty, unlabeled subsets.
  • C. Pochhammer symbol
    The Pochhammer symbol is a mathematical notation representing rising factorials, widely used in series expansions, special functions, and hypergeometric functions.
  • D. Catalan numbers
    Catalan numbers are a sequence of natural numbers that count a wide variety of combinatorial structures, such as correctly matched parentheses, binary tree shapes, and lattice path configurations.
  • E. Bernoulli numbers
    Bernoulli numbers are a sequence of rational numbers that play a central role in number theory and analysis, especially in formulas for sums of powers of integers and in the study of special functions like the Riemann zeta function.
  • 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: Stirling numbers of the first kind
Triple: [The Twelvefold Way, relatesTo, Stirling numbers of the first kind]
Generated description
Stirling numbers of the first kind are a family of combinatorial numbers that count permutations by their number of cycles and appear in expansions relating falling factorials to ordinary powers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stirling numbers of the first kind
Target entity description: Stirling numbers of the first kind are a family of combinatorial numbers that count permutations by their number of cycles and appear in expansions relating falling factorials to ordinary powers.
  • A. Stirling numbers of the second kind
    Stirling numbers of the second kind are a family of combinatorial numbers that count the ways to partition a set of n labeled elements into k nonempty, unlabeled subsets.
  • B. Bell numbers
    Bell numbers are a sequence in combinatorics that count the number of ways to partition a finite set into nonempty, unlabeled subsets.
  • C. Pochhammer symbol
    The Pochhammer symbol is a mathematical notation representing rising factorials, widely used in series expansions, special functions, and hypergeometric functions.
  • D. Catalan numbers
    Catalan numbers are a sequence of natural numbers that count a wide variety of combinatorial structures, such as correctly matched parentheses, binary tree shapes, and lattice path configurations.
  • E. Bernoulli numbers
    Bernoulli numbers are a sequence of rational numbers that play a central role in number theory and analysis, especially in formulas for sums of powers of integers and in the study of special functions like the Riemann zeta function.
  • 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_69d886cb581c8190ab05f4b429c9cd85 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3d280e3348190a27bd5dc7cf87c0e completed April 18, 2026, 6:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a011b433e688190ac8dda10638a197f completed May 10, 2026, 11:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a011cc1afc48190b83e3203407c1d7f completed May 11, 2026, 12:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a011d67c82c8190b737406e8952eb2b completed May 11, 2026, 12:05 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.