Triple
T4898379
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John Napier |
E109737
|
entity |
| Predicate | knownFor |
P22
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Napierian logarithms |
E109737
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Napierian logarithms | Statement: [John Napier, knownFor, Napierian logarithms]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Napierian logarithms Context triple: [John Napier, knownFor, Napierian logarithms]
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A.
Prutenic Tables
The Prutenic Tables were influential 16th-century astronomical tables based on Copernican heliocentric theory, used for predicting planetary positions before being superseded by more accurate works like the Rudolphine Tables.
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B.
Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation
Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation was the original title of a pioneering journal devoted to numerical analysis, computational methods, and mathematical tables, later continued under the name Mathematics of Computation.
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C.
Krak de l’Hospital
Krak de l’Hospital is an alternative name for Krak des Chevaliers, the famous medieval Crusader castle in Syria renowned for its massive fortifications and strategic importance.
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D.
John Napier
chosen
John Napier was a Scottish mathematician best known for inventing logarithms and popularizing the use of the decimal point in arithmetic.
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E.
Lambert W function (later named in his honor)
The Lambert W function is a special multivalued function that solves equations where a variable appears both inside and outside an exponential, defined as the inverse of f(w) = w e^w and widely used in mathematics, physics, and engineering.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69bd4410bbf88190aad50d2451c863d6 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd6e49992481908cc7cc1eeafd6494 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 3:56 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69be6fc997548190bb340193475065ee |
completed | March 21, 2026, 10:15 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:28 p.m.