Triple

T4081145
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Al-Jazari E87479 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices
The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices is a 13th-century illustrated manuscript that systematically documents Al-Jazari’s innovative automata, clocks, and mechanical inventions, making it a foundational work in the history of engineering.
E410943 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: The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices | Statement: [Al-Jazari, notableWork, The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices
Context triple: [Al-Jazari, notableWork, The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices]
  • A. Misra Yantra
    Misra Yantra is an astronomical instrument at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, historically used to measure time and celestial positions with high precision.
  • B. Treatise on Astronomy
    Treatise on Astronomy is a 19th-century textbook by American mathematician and astronomer Elias Loomis that systematically presents the fundamental principles and observations of astronomy for students and general readers.
  • C. Science and Civilisation in China
    Science and Civilisation in China is a monumental multi-volume work that systematically documents and analyzes the history of Chinese science, technology, and civilization and their global significance.
  • D. The Method of Mechanical Theorems
    The Method of Mechanical Theorems is a treatise by Archimedes in which he uses heuristic mechanical arguments, involving balances and centers of mass, to discover and justify results in geometry and calculus-like area and volume calculations.
  • E. Essai sur les machines en général
    Essai sur les machines en général is a foundational treatise on mechanics and the theory of machines written by French mathematician and engineer Lazare Carnot.
  • 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: The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices
Triple: [Al-Jazari, notableWork, The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices]
Generated description
The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices is a 13th-century illustrated manuscript that systematically documents Al-Jazari’s innovative automata, clocks, and mechanical inventions, making it a foundational work in the history of engineering.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices
Target entity description: The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices is a 13th-century illustrated manuscript that systematically documents Al-Jazari’s innovative automata, clocks, and mechanical inventions, making it a foundational work in the history of engineering.
  • A. Misra Yantra
    Misra Yantra is an astronomical instrument at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, historically used to measure time and celestial positions with high precision.
  • B. Treatise on Astronomy
    Treatise on Astronomy is a 19th-century textbook by American mathematician and astronomer Elias Loomis that systematically presents the fundamental principles and observations of astronomy for students and general readers.
  • C. Science and Civilisation in China
    Science and Civilisation in China is a monumental multi-volume work that systematically documents and analyzes the history of Chinese science, technology, and civilization and their global significance.
  • D. The Method of Mechanical Theorems
    The Method of Mechanical Theorems is a treatise by Archimedes in which he uses heuristic mechanical arguments, involving balances and centers of mass, to discover and justify results in geometry and calculus-like area and volume calculations.
  • E. Essai sur les machines en général
    Essai sur les machines en général is a foundational treatise on mechanics and the theory of machines written by French mathematician and engineer Lazare Carnot.
  • 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_69aed9435cf48190ad1da737c962d19d completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aefc5204d881909829de15015aa50d completed March 9, 2026, 4:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b562c3e1b081908cd783d9399a751f completed March 14, 2026, 1:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5647cbad48190935cb9bdde3f6af0 completed March 14, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b564e930e48190b8b95d3cae65dbd2 completed March 14, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:39 p.m.