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]
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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.
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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.
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C.
Bernard A. Newcomb
Bernard A. Newcomb is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the online brokerage firm E-Trade.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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C.
Bernard A. Newcomb
Bernard A. Newcomb is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the online brokerage firm E-Trade.
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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.