Triple

T4667892
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Heaviside step function E102892 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Oliver Heaviside E19019 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Oliver Heaviside | Statement: [Heaviside step function, namedAfter, Oliver Heaviside]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oliver Heaviside
Context triple: [Heaviside step function, namedAfter, Oliver Heaviside]
  • A. Oliver Heaviside chosen
    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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. James Clerk Maxwell
    James Clerk Maxwell was a 19th-century Scottish physicist best known for formulating the classical theory of electromagnetism, unifying electricity, magnetism, and light into a single framework.
  • E. Arthur E. Kennelly
    Arthur E. Kennelly was a prominent electrical engineer and physicist known for his pioneering work in alternating current theory and radio science.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69bd43d9cba4819086c1ab1c2d9d2133 elicitation completed
NER batch_69bd633ec8b08190bf8ffd4c3b946f61 ner completed
NED1 batch_69be038912488190a109d4ce624b813d ned_source_triple completed
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:15 p.m.