Triple

T3487887
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Poynting vector E73653 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object John Henry Poynting
John Henry Poynting was a British physicist best known for formulating the Poynting theorem and introducing the Poynting vector to describe the flow of electromagnetic energy.
E362047 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: John Henry Poynting | Statement: [Poynting vector, namedAfter, John Henry Poynting]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Henry Poynting
Context triple: [Poynting vector, namedAfter, John Henry Poynting]
  • A. Joseph Larmor
    Joseph Larmor was an Irish physicist and mathematician known for his work on electromagnetism, the electron theory, and for formulating the concept of Larmor precession.
  • B. Harold Spencer Jones
    Harold Spencer Jones was a prominent 20th-century British astronomer who served as the last Astronomer Royal to be responsible for the Royal Greenwich Observatory and made significant contributions to positional astronomy and the determination of the astronomical unit.
  • C. Horace Lamb
    Horace Lamb was a British applied mathematician renowned for his foundational work in hydrodynamics and the theory of sound.
  • D. Frank Watson Dyson
    Frank Watson Dyson was a prominent British astronomer best known for his role in organizing the 1919 solar eclipse expeditions that provided one of the first major confirmations of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
  • E. Oliver Heaviside
    Oliver Heaviside was an English self-taught physicist, electrical engineer, and mathematician known for reformulating Maxwell’s equations into their modern vector form and pioneering transmission line theory.
  • 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: John Henry Poynting
Triple: [Poynting vector, namedAfter, John Henry Poynting]
Generated description
John Henry Poynting was a British physicist best known for formulating the Poynting theorem and introducing the Poynting vector to describe the flow of electromagnetic energy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Henry Poynting
Target entity description: John Henry Poynting was a British physicist best known for formulating the Poynting theorem and introducing the Poynting vector to describe the flow of electromagnetic energy.
  • A. Joseph Larmor
    Joseph Larmor was an Irish physicist and mathematician known for his work on electromagnetism, the electron theory, and for formulating the concept of Larmor precession.
  • B. Harold Spencer Jones
    Harold Spencer Jones was a prominent 20th-century British astronomer who served as the last Astronomer Royal to be responsible for the Royal Greenwich Observatory and made significant contributions to positional astronomy and the determination of the astronomical unit.
  • C. Horace Lamb
    Horace Lamb was a British applied mathematician renowned for his foundational work in hydrodynamics and the theory of sound.
  • D. Frank Watson Dyson
    Frank Watson Dyson was a prominent British astronomer best known for his role in organizing the 1919 solar eclipse expeditions that provided one of the first major confirmations of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
  • E. Oliver Heaviside
    Oliver Heaviside was an English self-taught physicist, electrical engineer, and mathematician known for reformulating Maxwell’s equations into their modern vector form and pioneering transmission line theory.
  • 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_69ad85cca8d4819088494e9f3340fab5 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbb9193688190aa0cbf87a7b99446 completed March 8, 2026, 6:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b36826ff448190880f1ee708d93215 completed March 13, 2026, 1:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b36bedbb5881909e029c1d46782013 completed March 13, 2026, 1:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b36fc00f30819088eda5ef85324273 completed March 13, 2026, 2 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:18 p.m.