Triple

T432551
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject German Enlightenment E9743 entity
Predicate hasKeyFigure P810 FINISHED
Object Johann Heinrich Lambert
Johann Heinrich Lambert was an 18th-century German-Swiss polymath of the Enlightenment, renowned for his pioneering work in mathematics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy, including the first rigorous proof of the irrationality of π.
E57361 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: Johann Heinrich Lambert | Statement: [German Enlightenment, hasKeyFigure, Johann Heinrich Lambert]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Johann Heinrich Lambert
Context triple: [German Enlightenment, hasKeyFigure, Johann Heinrich Lambert]
  • A. Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
    Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis was an 18th-century French mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer best known for formulating the principle of least action and helping introduce Newtonian physics to continental Europe.
  • B. Wilhelm Gauss
    Wilhelm Gauss was one of the sons of the renowned German mathematician and scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss.
  • C. Jean d’Alembert
    Jean d’Alembert was an 18th-century French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher best known for his foundational work in calculus, mechanics (including d’Alembert’s principle), and co-editing the Encyclopédie.
  • D. Eugene Gauss
    Eugene Gauss was one of the sons of the renowned German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.
  • E. Joseph-Louis Lagrange
    Joseph-Louis Lagrange was an 18th-century mathematician and astronomer renowned for his foundational contributions to analysis, number theory, and classical mechanics, including the formulation of Lagrangian mechanics.
  • 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: Johann Heinrich Lambert
Triple: [German Enlightenment, hasKeyFigure, Johann Heinrich Lambert]
Generated description
Johann Heinrich Lambert was an 18th-century German-Swiss polymath of the Enlightenment, renowned for his pioneering work in mathematics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy, including the first rigorous proof of the irrationality of π.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Johann Heinrich Lambert
Target entity description: Johann Heinrich Lambert was an 18th-century German-Swiss polymath of the Enlightenment, renowned for his pioneering work in mathematics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy, including the first rigorous proof of the irrationality of π.
  • A. Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
    Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis was an 18th-century French mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer best known for formulating the principle of least action and helping introduce Newtonian physics to continental Europe.
  • B. Wilhelm Gauss
    Wilhelm Gauss was one of the sons of the renowned German mathematician and scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss.
  • C. Jean d’Alembert
    Jean d’Alembert was an 18th-century French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher best known for his foundational work in calculus, mechanics (including d’Alembert’s principle), and co-editing the Encyclopédie.
  • D. Eugene Gauss
    Eugene Gauss was one of the sons of the renowned German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.
  • E. Joseph-Louis Lagrange
    Joseph-Louis Lagrange was an 18th-century mathematician and astronomer renowned for his foundational contributions to analysis, number theory, and classical mechanics, including the formulation of Lagrangian mechanics.
  • 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_69a2e801e1d48190b505d1dd336b52ac completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2eef07e748190b05392778f3de980 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a44cb7001881908b91a1a1ab32ce41 completed March 1, 2026, 2:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a44d71f7bc8190acf5c1aeb9f915d1 completed March 1, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a44dcf7364819092bd656b0da97d03 completed March 1, 2026, 2:31 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:11 p.m.