Triple
T23222992
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | A. I. Sabra |
E580942
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Theories of Light from Descartes to Newton |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Theories of Light from Descartes to Newton | Statement: [A. I. Sabra, notableWork, Theories of Light from Descartes to Newton]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theories of Light from Descartes to Newton Context triple: [A. I. Sabra, notableWork, Theories of Light from Descartes to Newton]
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A.
Traité de la lumière
Traité de la lumière is a seminal 1690 scientific treatise that presents Christiaan Huygens’ wave theory of light, including the principle now known as Huygens’ principle.
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B.
An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision is a philosophical treatise by George Berkeley that explores how we perceive distance, size, and spatial properties through vision, arguing that such perceptions are learned rather than innate.
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C.
Commentary on Newton's Principia
Commentary on Newton's Principia is Émilie du Châtelet’s influential French translation and elucidation of Isaac Newton’s Principia, which helped popularize and clarify Newtonian physics in the 18th century.
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D.
Newtonian optics
Newtonian optics is the branch of physics developed by Isaac Newton that explains light primarily as a stream of particles to account for reflection, refraction, and color phenomena.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theories of Light from Descartes to Newton Target entity description: Theories of Light from Descartes to Newton is a scholarly historical study examining the development of optical theories and concepts of light in early modern science from René Descartes through Isaac Newton.
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A.
Traité de la lumière
Traité de la lumière is a seminal 1690 scientific treatise that presents Christiaan Huygens’ wave theory of light, including the principle now known as Huygens’ principle.
-
B.
An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision is a philosophical treatise by George Berkeley that explores how we perceive distance, size, and spatial properties through vision, arguing that such perceptions are learned rather than innate.
-
C.
Commentary on Newton's Principia
Commentary on Newton's Principia is Émilie du Châtelet’s influential French translation and elucidation of Isaac Newton’s Principia, which helped popularize and clarify Newtonian physics in the 18th century.
-
D.
Newtonian optics
Newtonian optics is the branch of physics developed by Isaac Newton that explains light primarily as a stream of particles to account for reflection, refraction, and color phenomena.
-
E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
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.