Triple
T21077254
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John Playfair |
E519269
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entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
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FINISHED |
| Object | Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth |
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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: Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth | Statement: [John Playfair, notableWork, Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth Context triple: [John Playfair, notableWork, Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth]
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A.
Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth
chosen
Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth is an 1802 geological treatise by John Playfair that clearly expounds and defends James Hutton’s uniformitarian theory of the Earth’s formation and processes.
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B.
Theory of the Earth
Theory of the Earth is James Hutton’s foundational geological work that introduced the concept of deep geological time and laid the groundwork for modern geology.
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C.
An Inquiry into the Original State and Formation of the Earth
*An Inquiry into the Original State and Formation of the Earth* is an 18th-century geological treatise by John Whitehurst that explores the Earth's structure, history, and the processes that shaped it.
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D.
Principles of Geology
Principles of Geology is Charles Lyell’s landmark 19th-century work that popularized uniformitarianism and fundamentally shaped modern geological science and Charles Darwin’s thinking on Earth’s history.
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E.
The Earth: Its Origin, History and Physical Constitution
The Earth: Its Origin, History and Physical Constitution is a seminal scientific treatise by Harold Jeffreys that systematically analyzes the planet’s structure, formation, and geophysical properties.
- 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.