Triple

T5722421
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rudolf Diesel E126176 entity
Predicate authored P80 FINISHED
Object Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat Motor
"Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat Motor" is Rudolf Diesel’s foundational work outlining the principles and design of the high-efficiency internal combustion engine that later bore his name.
E541359 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: Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat Motor | Statement: [Rudolf Diesel, authored, Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat Motor]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat Motor
Context triple: [Rudolf Diesel, authored, Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat Motor]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Rational Thermodynamics
    Rational Thermodynamics is a rigorous, axiomatic reformulation of continuum thermodynamics developed by Clifford Truesdell and collaborators, emphasizing logical consistency and mathematical clarity in the foundations of thermal and mechanical processes.
  • D. Einstein–Szilard refrigerator
    The Einstein–Szilard refrigerator is an early 20th-century absorption refrigerator design that uses no moving parts and was created to provide a safer, more reliable alternative to conventional refrigerators that relied on toxic gases.
  • E. The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822–1854
    The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822–1854 is a scholarly historical study by Clifford Truesdell that critically and often wittily examines the development of thermodynamics and its key figures during the early nineteenth century.
  • 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: Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat Motor
Triple: [Rudolf Diesel, authored, Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat Motor]
Generated description
"Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat Motor" is Rudolf Diesel’s foundational work outlining the principles and design of the high-efficiency internal combustion engine that later bore his name.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat Motor
Target entity description: "Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat Motor" is Rudolf Diesel’s foundational work outlining the principles and design of the high-efficiency internal combustion engine that later bore his name.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Rational Thermodynamics
    Rational Thermodynamics is a rigorous, axiomatic reformulation of continuum thermodynamics developed by Clifford Truesdell and collaborators, emphasizing logical consistency and mathematical clarity in the foundations of thermal and mechanical processes.
  • D. Einstein–Szilard refrigerator
    The Einstein–Szilard refrigerator is an early 20th-century absorption refrigerator design that uses no moving parts and was created to provide a safer, more reliable alternative to conventional refrigerators that relied on toxic gases.
  • E. The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822–1854
    The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822–1854 is a scholarly historical study by Clifford Truesdell that critically and often wittily examines the development of thermodynamics and its key figures during the early nineteenth century.
  • 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_69c0082e3d548190950169847b43043b completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c024e6c444819089270b188e60cc67 completed March 22, 2026, 5:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c05a80aefc8190b6ea35ab405ea502 completed March 22, 2026, 9:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c05c7663388190ab491144149532a4 completed March 22, 2026, 9:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c05d2ef9488190ac0111cb6a94b1d0 completed March 22, 2026, 9:20 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:46 p.m.