Triple

T21142622
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Playfair E520969 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth — 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]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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_69e0b50c6a848190a4e525a77a319b8a completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e723fad02c8190a8e9fb82f0491642 completed April 21, 2026, 7:15 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:57 p.m.