Triple

T5496852
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sadi Carnot E144230 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire
Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire is an 1824 treatise by Sadi Carnot that laid the foundations of thermodynamics by analyzing the efficiency and principles of heat engines.
E531748 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: Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire | Statement: [Sadi Carnot, notableWork, Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire
Context triple: [Sadi Carnot, notableWork, Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire]
  • 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. Essai sur les machines en général
    Essai sur les machines en général is a foundational treatise on mechanics and the theory of machines written by French mathematician and engineer Lazare Carnot.
  • C. A System of Mechanics
    "A System of Mechanics" is a scientific work by John Thomas Romney Robinson that presents a structured treatment of the principles and laws governing mechanical phenomena.
  • D. On the Conservation of Force
    "On the Conservation of Force" is an 1847 scientific treatise by Hermann von Helmholtz that helped establish the modern principle of conservation of energy in physics.
  • E. The Science of Mechanics
    The Science of Mechanics is Ernst Mach’s influential treatise that critically examines the foundations of classical mechanics and helped shape the development of modern physics and the philosophy of science.
  • 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: Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire
Triple: [Sadi Carnot, notableWork, Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire]
Generated description
Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire is an 1824 treatise by Sadi Carnot that laid the foundations of thermodynamics by analyzing the efficiency and principles of heat engines.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire
Target entity description: Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire is an 1824 treatise by Sadi Carnot that laid the foundations of thermodynamics by analyzing the efficiency and principles of heat engines.
  • 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. Essai sur les machines en général
    Essai sur les machines en général is a foundational treatise on mechanics and the theory of machines written by French mathematician and engineer Lazare Carnot.
  • C. A System of Mechanics
    "A System of Mechanics" is a scientific work by John Thomas Romney Robinson that presents a structured treatment of the principles and laws governing mechanical phenomena.
  • D. On the Conservation of Force
    "On the Conservation of Force" is an 1847 scientific treatise by Hermann von Helmholtz that helped establish the modern principle of conservation of energy in physics.
  • E. The Science of Mechanics
    The Science of Mechanics is Ernst Mach’s influential treatise that critically examines the foundations of classical mechanics and helped shape the development of modern physics and the philosophy of science.
  • 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_69c008f5a2748190bce7a39aabf87a6d completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c01b8dcef08190a93d4627da65b36f completed March 22, 2026, 4:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0278d78dc81908de78e2d3f5c71ed completed March 22, 2026, 5:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c03d15e8d48190b08d0903621fbdcb completed March 22, 2026, 7:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c03daa883c8190a787c40965408132 completed March 22, 2026, 7:06 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:32 p.m.