Triple
T18271654
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | European scholastic optics |
E437628
|
entity |
| Predicate | majorFigure |
P1183
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Nicole Oresme |
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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: Nicole Oresme | Statement: [European scholastic optics, majorFigure, Nicole Oresme]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicole Oresme Context triple: [European scholastic optics, majorFigure, Nicole Oresme]
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A.
Pierre d’Ailly
Pierre d’Ailly was a prominent late medieval French theologian, philosopher, and cardinal known for his influential role in church politics and scholastic thought.
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B.
Urbain Cassan
Urbain Cassan was a French architect best known for co-designing Paris’s Tour Montparnasse, one of the city’s most prominent modern skyscrapers.
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C.
Guillaume Postel
Guillaume Postel was a 16th-century French linguist, Orientalist, and mystic known for his utopian universalist ideas and extensive studies of Eastern languages and cultures.
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D.
John Buridan
John Buridan was a 14th-century French philosopher and logician best known for developing the theory of impetus, which anticipated aspects of modern inertia and significantly influenced late medieval natural philosophy.
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E.
Albertus Pighius
Albertus Pighius was a 16th-century Dutch Catholic theologian and humanist known for his vigorous defense of papal authority and opposition to Protestant reformers like John Calvin.
- 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: Nicole Oresme Target entity description: Nicole Oresme was a 14th-century French philosopher, mathematician, and theologian known for his influential work in natural philosophy, including early contributions to optics, motion, and the use of graphical methods in mathematics.
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A.
Pierre d’Ailly
Pierre d’Ailly was a prominent late medieval French theologian, philosopher, and cardinal known for his influential role in church politics and scholastic thought.
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B.
Urbain Cassan
Urbain Cassan was a French architect best known for co-designing Paris’s Tour Montparnasse, one of the city’s most prominent modern skyscrapers.
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C.
Guillaume Postel
Guillaume Postel was a 16th-century French linguist, Orientalist, and mystic known for his utopian universalist ideas and extensive studies of Eastern languages and cultures.
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D.
John Buridan
John Buridan was a 14th-century French philosopher and logician best known for developing the theory of impetus, which anticipated aspects of modern inertia and significantly influenced late medieval natural philosophy.
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E.
Albertus Pighius
Albertus Pighius was a 16th-century Dutch Catholic theologian and humanist known for his vigorous defense of papal authority and opposition to Protestant reformers like John Calvin.
- 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.