Triple
T5622868
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Willebrord Snellius |
E147648
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableFor |
P22
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Snell's law |
E26832
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Snell's law | Statement: [Willebrord Snellius, notableFor, Snell's law]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Snell's law Context triple: [Willebrord Snellius, notableFor, Snell's law]
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A.
Snell’s law of refraction
chosen
Snell’s law of refraction is a fundamental principle in optics that relates the angles of incidence and refraction to the refractive indices of two media, governing how light bends when passing between them.
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B.
Fresnel equations
The Fresnel equations are fundamental formulas in optics that describe how light is partially reflected and transmitted at the boundary between two media with different refractive indices, depending on polarization and angle of incidence.
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C.
Snell
Snell is a surname of English and German origin borne by various notable individuals in politics, science, and other fields.
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D.
Fermat’s principle of least time
Fermat’s principle of least time is a fundamental variational principle in optics stating that light follows the path that takes the least time, from which many laws of geometrical optics can be derived.
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E.
Fresnel
Fresnel is a surname most famously associated with Augustin-Jean Fresnel, the French physicist whose pioneering work on wave optics and the Fresnel lens revolutionized the understanding and application of light.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69c00906f2a88190a992c66b13d606d4 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c02214b4948190b71a9f59499092f6 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 5:08 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c04d5da9cc819097281dd6aa405e62 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 8:13 p.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:40 p.m.