Triple

T5427156
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Spacetime Physics E121390 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object Edwin F. Taylor
Edwin F. Taylor is an American physicist and educator best known for his influential textbooks and popularizations of special and general relativity.
E521782 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: Edwin F. Taylor | Statement: [Spacetime Physics, author, Edwin F. Taylor]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edwin F. Taylor
Context triple: [Spacetime Physics, author, Edwin F. Taylor]
  • A. Eugene F. Stoermer
    Eugene F. Stoermer was an American freshwater ecologist best known for helping introduce and popularize the term "Anthropocene" to describe humanity’s profound impact on the Earth’s systems.
  • B. John B. Purcell
    John B. Purcell was a 19th-century American Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Cincinnati and was known for his public debates defending Catholic doctrine.
  • C. Bernard A. Newcomb
    Bernard A. Newcomb is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the online brokerage firm E-Trade.
  • D. Dayton C. Miller
    Dayton C. Miller was an American physicist and acoustician known for his work on interferometry, precision measurements of the ether drift, and extensive studies of musical acoustics and instruments.
  • E. Howard P. Robertson
    Howard P. Robertson was an American mathematician and physicist known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology and the formulation of the Robertson–Walker metric used in modern cosmological models.
  • 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: Edwin F. Taylor
Triple: [Spacetime Physics, author, Edwin F. Taylor]
Generated description
Edwin F. Taylor is an American physicist and educator best known for his influential textbooks and popularizations of special and general relativity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edwin F. Taylor
Target entity description: Edwin F. Taylor is an American physicist and educator best known for his influential textbooks and popularizations of special and general relativity.
  • A. Eugene F. Stoermer
    Eugene F. Stoermer was an American freshwater ecologist best known for helping introduce and popularize the term "Anthropocene" to describe humanity’s profound impact on the Earth’s systems.
  • B. John B. Purcell
    John B. Purcell was a 19th-century American Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Cincinnati and was known for his public debates defending Catholic doctrine.
  • C. Bernard A. Newcomb
    Bernard A. Newcomb is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the online brokerage firm E-Trade.
  • D. Dayton C. Miller
    Dayton C. Miller was an American physicist and acoustician known for his work on interferometry, precision measurements of the ether drift, and extensive studies of musical acoustics and instruments.
  • E. Howard P. Robertson
    Howard P. Robertson was an American mathematician and physicist known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology and the formulation of the Robertson–Walker metric used in modern cosmological models.
  • 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_69bf4125e490819088f70090cf8d81fa completed March 22, 2026, 1:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf453d171081909a0d2b2ac7db13a4 completed March 22, 2026, 1:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf45c75e2c8190a1508e8e90253f88 completed March 22, 2026, 1:28 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:06 p.m.