Triple

T5050079
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Clifford Truesdell E113762 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822–1854
The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822–1854 is a scholarly historical study by Clifford Truesdell that critically and often wittily examines the development of thermodynamics and its key figures during the early nineteenth century.
E490986 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 Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822–1854 | Statement: [Clifford Truesdell, notableWork, The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822–1854]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822–1854
Context triple: [Clifford Truesdell, notableWork, The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822–1854]
  • A. On the Moving Force of Heat
    "On the Moving Force of Heat" is Rudolf Clausius’s foundational 1850 paper that helped establish the second law of thermodynamics and introduced key concepts leading to the modern understanding of entropy.
  • B. Carathéodory’s formulation of the second law of thermodynamics
    Carathéodory’s formulation of the second law of thermodynamics is a mathematically rigorous restatement of the second law based on the inaccessibility of certain thermodynamic states, providing a foundation for the concept of entropy without relying on cyclic processes or heat engines.
  • C. Clausius statement of the second law of thermodynamics
    The Clausius statement of the second law of thermodynamics asserts that heat cannot spontaneously flow from a colder body to a hotter body without external work being performed.
  • D. The Entropy Law and the Economic Process
    The Entropy Law and the Economic Process is a foundational work in ecological economics that applies the concept of entropy from thermodynamics to critique conventional economic theory and highlight the physical limits to economic growth.
  • E. 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.
  • 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 Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822–1854
Triple: [Clifford Truesdell, notableWork, The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822–1854]
Generated description
The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822–1854 is a scholarly historical study by Clifford Truesdell that critically and often wittily examines the development of thermodynamics and its key figures during the early nineteenth century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822–1854
Target entity description: The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822–1854 is a scholarly historical study by Clifford Truesdell that critically and often wittily examines the development of thermodynamics and its key figures during the early nineteenth century.
  • A. On the Moving Force of Heat
    "On the Moving Force of Heat" is Rudolf Clausius’s foundational 1850 paper that helped establish the second law of thermodynamics and introduced key concepts leading to the modern understanding of entropy.
  • B. Carathéodory’s formulation of the second law of thermodynamics
    Carathéodory’s formulation of the second law of thermodynamics is a mathematically rigorous restatement of the second law based on the inaccessibility of certain thermodynamic states, providing a foundation for the concept of entropy without relying on cyclic processes or heat engines.
  • C. Clausius statement of the second law of thermodynamics
    The Clausius statement of the second law of thermodynamics asserts that heat cannot spontaneously flow from a colder body to a hotter body without external work being performed.
  • D. The Entropy Law and the Economic Process
    The Entropy Law and the Economic Process is a foundational work in ecological economics that applies the concept of entropy from thermodynamics to critique conventional economic theory and highlight the physical limits to economic growth.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69bd44391fc48190a311ce9c826c209b completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7425df74819091cfde348dd16a68 completed March 20, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bea480fee88190a4302301259f29ba completed March 21, 2026, 2 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bea5e902a88190a96a0dea88d3952e completed March 21, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bea9961f8c8190b7ac93e199aa76d7 completed March 21, 2026, 2:22 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:37 p.m.