Triple
T19890946
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Napier's bones |
E478027
|
entity |
| Predicate | alternativeName |
P39
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Napier's rods |
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|
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: Napier's rods | Statement: [Napier's bones, alternativeName, Napier's rods]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Napier's rods Context triple: [Napier's bones, alternativeName, Napier's rods]
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A.
Napier's bones
chosen
Napier's bones are a manually operated calculating device using numbered rods to simplify and speed up multiplication and division.
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B.
Prutenic Tables
The Prutenic Tables were influential 16th-century astronomical tables based on Copernican heliocentric theory, used for predicting planetary positions before being superseded by more accurate works like the Rudolphine Tables.
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C.
Abacus
Abacus is a British publishing imprint known for releasing a wide range of literary and contemporary fiction, often in paperback editions.
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D.
Barlow's Tables of Squares, Cubes, Square Roots, Cube Roots, Reciprocals, and Logarithms
Barlow's Tables of Squares, Cubes, Square Roots, Cube Roots, Reciprocals, and Logarithms is a classic 19th-century mathematical reference work providing extensive numerical tables used for calculation before the advent of electronic computers.
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E.
Schickard calculating clock
The Schickard calculating clock was an early 17th-century mechanical calculator designed by Wilhelm Schickard, often regarded as one of the first known attempts to build an automatic computing machine.
- 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_69d8e51f32b08190b3687f4f60353250 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6590e02388190ab82918750cc2647 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 4:49 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:52 p.m.