Triple

T4585419
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Rowan Hamilton E101954 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object On a General Method in Dynamics
"On a General Method in Dynamics" is a foundational 19th-century paper by William Rowan Hamilton that introduced Hamiltonian mechanics, reformulating classical dynamics in terms of generalized coordinates and conjugate momenta.
E455349 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: On a General Method in Dynamics | Statement: [William Rowan Hamilton, notableWork, On a General Method in Dynamics]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: On a General Method in Dynamics
Context triple: [William Rowan Hamilton, notableWork, On a General Method in Dynamics]
  • A. On the rotation of a solid body about a fixed point
    "On the Rotation of a Solid Body About a Fixed Point" is a landmark mathematical treatise in rigid body dynamics that contributed fundamentally to the theory of differential equations and classical mechanics.
  • B. Vorlesungen über Dynamik
    Vorlesungen über Dynamik is a posthumously published collection of lectures by mathematician Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi that significantly advanced the analytical foundations of classical mechanics and dynamical systems.
  • C. The Science of Mechanics
    The Science of Mechanics is Ernst Mach’s influential treatise that critically examines the foundations of classical mechanics and helped shape the development of modern physics and the philosophy of science.
  • D. Illustrations of the Dynamical Theory of Gases
    Illustrations of the Dynamical Theory of Gases is a foundational 1860 scientific paper by James Clerk Maxwell that introduced key ideas of kinetic theory and the statistical behavior of gas molecules.
  • E. Traité de dynamique
    Traité de dynamique is an influential 1743 treatise by Jean d’Alembert that helped formalize classical mechanics and introduced what is now known as d’Alembert’s principle.
  • 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: On a General Method in Dynamics
Triple: [William Rowan Hamilton, notableWork, On a General Method in Dynamics]
Generated description
"On a General Method in Dynamics" is a foundational 19th-century paper by William Rowan Hamilton that introduced Hamiltonian mechanics, reformulating classical dynamics in terms of generalized coordinates and conjugate momenta.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: On a General Method in Dynamics
Target entity description: "On a General Method in Dynamics" is a foundational 19th-century paper by William Rowan Hamilton that introduced Hamiltonian mechanics, reformulating classical dynamics in terms of generalized coordinates and conjugate momenta.
  • A. On the rotation of a solid body about a fixed point
    "On the Rotation of a Solid Body About a Fixed Point" is a landmark mathematical treatise in rigid body dynamics that contributed fundamentally to the theory of differential equations and classical mechanics.
  • B. Vorlesungen über Dynamik
    Vorlesungen über Dynamik is a posthumously published collection of lectures by mathematician Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi that significantly advanced the analytical foundations of classical mechanics and dynamical systems.
  • C. The Science of Mechanics
    The Science of Mechanics is Ernst Mach’s influential treatise that critically examines the foundations of classical mechanics and helped shape the development of modern physics and the philosophy of science.
  • D. Illustrations of the Dynamical Theory of Gases
    Illustrations of the Dynamical Theory of Gases is a foundational 1860 scientific paper by James Clerk Maxwell that introduced key ideas of kinetic theory and the statistical behavior of gas molecules.
  • E. Traité de dynamique
    Traité de dynamique is an influential 1743 treatise by Jean d’Alembert that helped formalize classical mechanics and introduced what is now known as d’Alembert’s principle.
  • 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_69bd43d4ce208190b53158c882b222e3 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd59056bb48190ba1e0b5beda9bdc4 completed March 20, 2026, 2:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bde0aa114881909fe446bf86c675e7 completed March 21, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bde14843148190a0b5fa0ad1d805d9 completed March 21, 2026, 12:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bde1b2efb48190a5ab83fa6c257df2 completed March 21, 2026, 12:09 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:10 p.m.