Triple

T18271589
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Witelo E437627 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object Islamic optics NE NERFINISHED

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: Islamic optics | Statement: [Witelo, influencedBy, Islamic optics]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Islamic optics
Context triple: [Witelo, influencedBy, Islamic optics]
  • A. Islamic optics chosen
    Islamic optics is the body of scientific work developed in the medieval Islamic world that advanced the understanding of vision, light, and optical phenomena, laying key foundations for modern optics.
  • B. Islamic astronomy
    Islamic astronomy is the body of astronomical knowledge and practices developed in the medieval Islamic world, notable for preserving and expanding Greek astronomy, refining observational techniques, and influencing later European science.
  • C. Ibn Sahl's treatise on burning mirrors and lenses
    Ibn Sahl's treatise on burning mirrors and lenses is a foundational 10th-century work in Islamic optics that mathematically analyzes refraction and lens design, anticipating principles later formalized in Snell’s law.
  • D. European scholastic optics
    European scholastic optics was the medieval Latin tradition of studying vision and light, developed by scholastic philosophers and theologians who synthesized classical and Islamic optical theories within a Christian-Aristotelian framework.
  • E. Newtonian optics
    Newtonian optics is the branch of physics developed by Isaac Newton that explains light primarily as a stream of particles to account for reflection, refraction, and color phenomena.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (2 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_69d8b913351c8190932b6a426de04b41 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4ff7e00548190a28916a696831336 completed April 19, 2026, 4:14 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:34 a.m.