Triple

T5427078
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hugh Everett III E121388 entity
Predicate doctoralThesisTitle P1860 FINISHED
Object "Relative State" Formulation of Quantum Mechanics
The "Relative State" Formulation of Quantum Mechanics is Hugh Everett III’s many-worlds interpretation, proposing that all possible outcomes of quantum measurements actually occur in a vast, branching multiverse without wavefunction collapse.
E518525 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: "Relative State" Formulation of Quantum Mechanics | Statement: [Hugh Everett III, doctoralThesisTitle, "Relative State" Formulation of Quantum Mechanics]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: "Relative State" Formulation of Quantum Mechanics
Context triple: [Hugh Everett III, doctoralThesisTitle, "Relative State" Formulation of Quantum Mechanics]
  • A. Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
    Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics is John von Neumann’s landmark 1932 treatise that rigorously formulates quantum theory using functional analysis and operator theory on Hilbert spaces.
  • B. Born rule in quantum mechanics
    The Born rule in quantum mechanics is the fundamental postulate that connects a system’s wavefunction to experimentally observed probabilities by stating that measurement outcomes occur with probabilities given by the squared magnitude of the wavefunction’s amplitudes.
  • C. Heisenberg operator formulation of quantum mechanics
    The Heisenberg operator formulation of quantum mechanics is a foundational approach in which observables evolve in time as operators while states remain fixed, providing a mathematically equivalent description to other formulations such as Schrödinger’s and the path integral.
  • D. Super-many-time theory of quantum mechanics
    The Super-many-time theory of quantum mechanics is a relativistic generalization of quantum mechanics that introduces multiple time variables to consistently describe interacting quantum fields in different reference frames.
  • E. Schrödinger formulation of quantum mechanics
    The Schrödinger formulation of quantum mechanics is the standard wave-mechanics approach in which the state of a quantum system evolves in time according to the Schrödinger equation acting on wavefunctions in Hilbert space.
  • 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: "Relative State" Formulation of Quantum Mechanics
Triple: [Hugh Everett III, doctoralThesisTitle, "Relative State" Formulation of Quantum Mechanics]
Generated description
The "Relative State" Formulation of Quantum Mechanics is Hugh Everett III’s many-worlds interpretation, proposing that all possible outcomes of quantum measurements actually occur in a vast, branching multiverse without wavefunction collapse.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: "Relative State" Formulation of Quantum Mechanics
Target entity description: The "Relative State" Formulation of Quantum Mechanics is Hugh Everett III’s many-worlds interpretation, proposing that all possible outcomes of quantum measurements actually occur in a vast, branching multiverse without wavefunction collapse.
  • A. Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
    Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics is John von Neumann’s landmark 1932 treatise that rigorously formulates quantum theory using functional analysis and operator theory on Hilbert spaces.
  • B. Born rule in quantum mechanics
    The Born rule in quantum mechanics is the fundamental postulate that connects a system’s wavefunction to experimentally observed probabilities by stating that measurement outcomes occur with probabilities given by the squared magnitude of the wavefunction’s amplitudes.
  • C. Heisenberg operator formulation of quantum mechanics
    The Heisenberg operator formulation of quantum mechanics is a foundational approach in which observables evolve in time as operators while states remain fixed, providing a mathematically equivalent description to other formulations such as Schrödinger’s and the path integral.
  • D. Super-many-time theory of quantum mechanics
    The Super-many-time theory of quantum mechanics is a relativistic generalization of quantum mechanics that introduces multiple time variables to consistently describe interacting quantum fields in different reference frames.
  • E. Schrödinger formulation of quantum mechanics
    The Schrödinger formulation of quantum mechanics is the standard wave-mechanics approach in which the state of a quantum system evolves in time according to the Schrödinger equation acting on wavefunctions in Hilbert space.
  • 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_69bd463c65f0819082ee6483ab4b466a completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd8817a2048190a76805da03cfa09b completed March 20, 2026, 5:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf3abfc7e88190b8f0a31b61c33973 completed March 22, 2026, 12:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf3b592a08819090e2873bcf4e797f completed March 22, 2026, 12:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf3c0b9e5481909101eccbd55f24b2 completed March 22, 2026, 12:47 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:06 p.m.