Triple
T22964683
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Sylvester’s law of inertia |
E571004
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entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object | James Joseph Sylvester |
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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: James Joseph Sylvester | Statement: [Sylvester’s law of inertia, namedAfter, James Joseph Sylvester]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Joseph Sylvester Context triple: [Sylvester’s law of inertia, namedAfter, James Joseph Sylvester]
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A.
James Joseph Sylvester
chosen
James Joseph Sylvester was a prominent 19th-century English mathematician known for his foundational work in invariant theory, matrix theory, and number theory, and for co-founding the American Journal of Mathematics.
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B.
Arthur Cayley
Arthur Cayley was a 19th-century British mathematician renowned for his foundational work in matrix theory and abstract algebra.
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C.
A. H. Sylvester
A. H. Sylvester was an early 20th-century American topographer and explorer known for his pioneering survey and climbing work in the Sierra Nevada.
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D.
Leonard Eugene Dickson
Leonard Eugene Dickson was an influential American mathematician known for his foundational work in number theory, abstract algebra, and the theory of finite fields.
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E.
Augustus De Morgan
Augustus De Morgan was a 19th-century British mathematician and logician known for formulating De Morgan's laws and contributing foundational work to symbolic logic.
- 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_69e245b212a88190b5259caf51606084 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f181f763688190aab8f444a1a71577 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 3:58 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:47 p.m.