Triple

T18271644
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject European scholastic optics E437628 entity
Predicate influencedByWork P1994 FINISHED
Object Ptolemy's Optics NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Ptolemy's Optics | Statement: [European scholastic optics, influencedByWork, Ptolemy's Optics]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ptolemy's Optics
Context triple: [European scholastic optics, influencedByWork, Ptolemy's Optics]
  • A. Euclid's Optics
    Euclid's Optics is an ancient Greek treatise that systematically analyzes visual perception and perspective using geometric principles, laying foundational ideas for later optical theory.
  • B. Book of Optics
    The Book of Optics is a foundational 11th-century scientific work that revolutionized the understanding of vision, light, and optics, laying key groundwork for the modern science of optics.
  • C. Theodoric of Freiberg's De iride et radialibus impressionibus
    Theodoric of Freiberg's *De iride et radialibus impressionibus* is a seminal medieval treatise that offers one of the first correct scientific explanations of the rainbow through geometric and optical analysis.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Liber de perspectivis
    Liber de perspectivis is a Renaissance treatise on perspective and geometrical optics by the Italian mathematician and scientist Guidobaldo del Monte.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ptolemy's Optics
Target entity description: Ptolemy's Optics is an influential ancient Greek treatise on vision, light, and visual perception that significantly shaped later theories of optics, including those of the European scholastic tradition.
  • A. Euclid's Optics
    Euclid's Optics is an ancient Greek treatise that systematically analyzes visual perception and perspective using geometric principles, laying foundational ideas for later optical theory.
  • B. Book of Optics
    The Book of Optics is a foundational 11th-century scientific work that revolutionized the understanding of vision, light, and optics, laying key groundwork for the modern science of optics.
  • C. Theodoric of Freiberg's De iride et radialibus impressionibus
    Theodoric of Freiberg's *De iride et radialibus impressionibus* is a seminal medieval treatise that offers one of the first correct scientific explanations of the rainbow through geometric and optical analysis.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Liber de perspectivis
    Liber de perspectivis is a Renaissance treatise on perspective and geometrical optics by the Italian mathematician and scientist Guidobaldo del Monte.
  • F. None of above. chosen

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.