Triple
T21077243
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John Playfair |
E519269
|
entity |
| Predicate | familyName |
P18
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Playfair |
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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: Playfair | Statement: [John Playfair, familyName, Playfair]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Playfair Context triple: [John Playfair, familyName, Playfair]
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A.
Playfair
chosen
Playfair is a Scottish surname most notably associated with John Playfair, an 18th–19th century mathematician and geologist known for popularizing geometry and scientific ideas.
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B.
Playfair cipher
The Playfair cipher is a manual symmetric encryption technique that encrypts pairs of letters using a 5×5 letter grid, historically used for military and diplomatic communications in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
de Vigenère
de Vigenère is the surname most famously associated with Blaise de Vigenère, the 16th-century French diplomat and cryptographer known for the Vigenère cipher.
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D.
Square cipher
The Square cipher is a block cipher and direct predecessor to the Rijndael algorithm (later standardized as AES), notable for introducing design ideas such as the wide trail strategy.
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E.
Lorenz cipher
The Lorenz cipher was a high-level German teleprinter encryption system used during World War II, whose interception and decryption by the Allies led to the development of the Colossus computers.
- 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_69e0b506e59c8190849b71ed07929215 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e702d77b8081908ecfb05ab391fd39 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 4:53 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:49 p.m.