Triple
T23222991
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | A. I. Sabra |
E580942
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entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
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FINISHED |
| Object | The Optics of Ibn al-Haytham |
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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: The Optics of Ibn al-Haytham | Statement: [A. I. Sabra, notableWork, The Optics of Ibn al-Haytham]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Optics of Ibn al-Haytham Context triple: [A. I. Sabra, notableWork, The Optics of Ibn al-Haytham]
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A.
Ptolemy's Optics
Ptolemy's Optics is an influential ancient Greek treatise on vision, light, and visual perception that significantly shaped later theories of optics, including those of the European scholastic tradition.
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B.
Book of Optics
chosen
The Book of Optics is a foundational 11th-century scientific work that revolutionized the understanding of vision, light, and optics, laying key groundwork for the modern science of optics.
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C.
Kamal al-Din al-Farisi's Tanqih al-Manazir
Kamal al-Din al-Farisi's Tanqih al-Manazir is a seminal medieval treatise on optics that critically revises and expands Ibn al-Haytham’s work, offering influential explanations of vision, refraction, and phenomena such as the rainbow.
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D.
Euclid's Optics
Euclid's Optics is an ancient Greek treatise that systematically analyzes visual perception and perspective using geometric principles, laying foundational ideas for later optical theory.
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E.
Ibn Sahl's treatise on burning mirrors and lenses
Ibn Sahl's treatise on burning mirrors and lenses is a foundational 10th-century work in Islamic optics that mathematically analyzes refraction and lens design, anticipating principles later formalized in Snell’s law.
- 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_69e246043c48819089bae72c9a9c306c |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:39 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f1922a452c81909b48df157643f6bd |
completed | April 29, 2026, 5:07 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:08 p.m.