Triple

T2244759
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lord Kelvin E49475 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object James Prescott Joule
James Prescott Joule was a 19th-century English physicist whose experiments on the mechanical equivalent of heat helped establish the principle of energy conservation and laid foundations for the first law of thermodynamics.
E247923 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 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: James Prescott Joule | Statement: [Lord Kelvin, influencedBy, James Prescott Joule]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Prescott Joule
Context triple: [Lord Kelvin, influencedBy, James Prescott Joule]
  • A. Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford
    Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford was an 18th-century American-born British physicist, inventor, and statesman known for his pioneering work on heat and thermodynamics as well as social and military reforms.
  • B. Michael Faraday
    Michael Faraday was a pioneering 19th-century English scientist whose groundbreaking work in electromagnetism and electrochemistry laid the foundations for much of modern physics and electrical engineering.
  • C. Rudolf Clausius
    Rudolf Clausius was a 19th-century German physicist and mathematician who was a founding figure of thermodynamics, best known for formulating the second law and introducing the concept of entropy.
  • D. Lord Kelvin
    Lord Kelvin was a pioneering 19th-century physicist and engineer best known for his work on thermodynamics and the absolute temperature scale that bears his name.
  • E. Joseph Black
    Joseph Black was an 18th-century Scottish physician and chemist renowned for his pioneering work on latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide, which laid foundations for modern thermodynamics and physical chemistry.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: James Prescott Joule
Triple: [Lord Kelvin, influencedBy, James Prescott Joule]
Generated description
James Prescott Joule was a 19th-century English physicist whose experiments on the mechanical equivalent of heat helped establish the principle of energy conservation and laid foundations for the first law of thermodynamics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Prescott Joule
Target entity description: James Prescott Joule was a 19th-century English physicist whose experiments on the mechanical equivalent of heat helped establish the principle of energy conservation and laid foundations for the first law of thermodynamics.
  • A. Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford
    Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford was an 18th-century American-born British physicist, inventor, and statesman known for his pioneering work on heat and thermodynamics as well as social and military reforms.
  • B. Michael Faraday
    Michael Faraday was a pioneering 19th-century English scientist whose groundbreaking work in electromagnetism and electrochemistry laid the foundations for much of modern physics and electrical engineering.
  • C. Rudolf Clausius
    Rudolf Clausius was a 19th-century German physicist and mathematician who was a founding figure of thermodynamics, best known for formulating the second law and introducing the concept of entropy.
  • D. Lord Kelvin
    Lord Kelvin was a pioneering 19th-century physicist and engineer best known for his work on thermodynamics and the absolute temperature scale that bears his name.
  • E. Joseph Black
    Joseph Black was an 18th-century Scottish physician and chemist renowned for his pioneering work on latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide, which laid foundations for modern thermodynamics and physical chemistry.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 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_69a88aa979788190ad6500f1d8eee2fc completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc0e8d5648190915ff689c7ca42bc completed March 7, 2026, 6:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae6b1284d0819093b041ede90d4c53 completed March 9, 2026, 6:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae6bcfd2c481908f69df77f40655e2 completed March 9, 2026, 6:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae6c4d9c04819086e3091bbbf16099 completed March 9, 2026, 6:44 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:47 p.m.