Triple

T3583693
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Theory and Design of Electron Beams E75859 entity
Predicate topic P261 FINISHED
Object Child–Langmuir law
The Child–Langmuir law is a fundamental space-charge-limited current law in vacuum electronics that relates the current density between parallel electrodes to the applied voltage raised to the three-halves power.
E371829 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: Child–Langmuir law | Statement: [Theory and Design of Electron Beams, topic, Child–Langmuir law]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Child–Langmuir law
Context triple: [Theory and Design of Electron Beams, topic, Child–Langmuir law]
  • A. Fick's first law of diffusion
    Fick's first law of diffusion is a fundamental physical law that relates the diffusive flux of particles to the spatial gradient of their concentration, describing how substances move from regions of high to low concentration.
  • B. Smoluchowski coagulation equation
    The Smoluchowski coagulation equation is a fundamental integro-differential equation in statistical physics that models how particles undergoing random collisions aggregate over time into larger clusters.
  • C. Saha ionization equation
    The Saha ionization equation is a fundamental formula in astrophysics and plasma physics that relates the ionization state of a gas in thermal equilibrium to its temperature and pressure, crucial for understanding stellar atmospheres and spectra.
  • D. Lusser's law
    Lusser's law is a reliability engineering principle that states the overall reliability of a system is the product of the reliabilities of its individual components, highlighting how system reliability decreases as more components are added in series.
  • E. Goodman–Martínez–Thompson correlation
    The Goodman–Martínez–Thompson correlation is the most widely accepted scholarly conversion formula that aligns dates in the ancient Maya Long Count calendar with the Gregorian calendar.
  • 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: Child–Langmuir law
Triple: [Theory and Design of Electron Beams, topic, Child–Langmuir law]
Generated description
The Child–Langmuir law is a fundamental space-charge-limited current law in vacuum electronics that relates the current density between parallel electrodes to the applied voltage raised to the three-halves power.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Child–Langmuir law
Target entity description: The Child–Langmuir law is a fundamental space-charge-limited current law in vacuum electronics that relates the current density between parallel electrodes to the applied voltage raised to the three-halves power.
  • A. Fick's first law of diffusion
    Fick's first law of diffusion is a fundamental physical law that relates the diffusive flux of particles to the spatial gradient of their concentration, describing how substances move from regions of high to low concentration.
  • B. Smoluchowski coagulation equation
    The Smoluchowski coagulation equation is a fundamental integro-differential equation in statistical physics that models how particles undergoing random collisions aggregate over time into larger clusters.
  • C. Saha ionization equation
    The Saha ionization equation is a fundamental formula in astrophysics and plasma physics that relates the ionization state of a gas in thermal equilibrium to its temperature and pressure, crucial for understanding stellar atmospheres and spectra.
  • D. Lusser's law
    Lusser's law is a reliability engineering principle that states the overall reliability of a system is the product of the reliabilities of its individual components, highlighting how system reliability decreases as more components are added in series.
  • E. Goodman–Martínez–Thompson correlation
    The Goodman–Martínez–Thompson correlation is the most widely accepted scholarly conversion formula that aligns dates in the ancient Maya Long Count calendar with the Gregorian calendar.
  • 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_69ad85d6dc3c8190b491b79b83e25461 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc104846c81908b6fbde7061464b4 completed March 8, 2026, 6:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b402f7ee6481908d06db05f9c09faf completed March 13, 2026, 12:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b403acc5e88190bc88bed8259393ba completed March 13, 2026, 12:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b40a7f82ac819099c2c324ebff76f7 completed March 13, 2026, 1 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:21 p.m.