Triple

T6651563
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh E150833 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Peter Guthrie Tait
Peter Guthrie Tait was a 19th-century Scottish mathematical physicist known for his pioneering work in thermodynamics, knot theory, and quaternions, and for co-authoring the influential "Treatise on Natural Philosophy" with Lord Kelvin.
E609832 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: Peter Guthrie Tait | Statement: [Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, namedAfter, Peter Guthrie Tait]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Peter Guthrie Tait
Context triple: [Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, namedAfter, Peter Guthrie Tait]
  • A. James Geikie
    James Geikie was a Scottish geologist known for his influential work on Pleistocene glaciation and the geological history of the Ice Age.
  • B. Archibald Campbell Tait
    Archibald Campbell Tait was a 19th-century Archbishop of Canterbury known for his role in guiding the Church of England through significant religious and social reforms.
  • C. William Strutt
    William Strutt was an English industrialist and inventor from Derby, noted for his pioneering work in iron-framed, fireproof mill architecture during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • D. Archibald Geikie
    Archibald Geikie was a prominent 19th–20th century Scottish geologist known for his influential work on igneous rocks, geological mapping, and for serving as Director-General of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom.
  • E. George Stokes
    George Stokes was a 19th-century Irish mathematician and physicist renowned for his foundational work in fluid dynamics, optics, and mathematical physics.
  • 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: Peter Guthrie Tait
Triple: [Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, namedAfter, Peter Guthrie Tait]
Generated description
Peter Guthrie Tait was a 19th-century Scottish mathematical physicist known for his pioneering work in thermodynamics, knot theory, and quaternions, and for co-authoring the influential "Treatise on Natural Philosophy" with Lord Kelvin.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Peter Guthrie Tait
Target entity description: Peter Guthrie Tait was a 19th-century Scottish mathematical physicist known for his pioneering work in thermodynamics, knot theory, and quaternions, and for co-authoring the influential "Treatise on Natural Philosophy" with Lord Kelvin.
  • A. James Geikie
    James Geikie was a Scottish geologist known for his influential work on Pleistocene glaciation and the geological history of the Ice Age.
  • B. Archibald Campbell Tait
    Archibald Campbell Tait was a 19th-century Archbishop of Canterbury known for his role in guiding the Church of England through significant religious and social reforms.
  • C. William Strutt
    William Strutt was an English industrialist and inventor from Derby, noted for his pioneering work in iron-framed, fireproof mill architecture during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • D. Archibald Geikie
    Archibald Geikie was a prominent 19th–20th century Scottish geologist known for his influential work on igneous rocks, geological mapping, and for serving as Director-General of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom.
  • E. George Stokes
    George Stokes was a 19th-century Irish mathematician and physicist renowned for his foundational work in fluid dynamics, optics, and mathematical physics.
  • 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_69c687f2c9508190a60b9aad31d3f358 completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6b0458fb48190a76d8d1d6273a92b completed March 27, 2026, 4:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6eefb3b6c8190ba797dc51966e3a5 completed March 27, 2026, 8:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6f1ed97248190ab2253b3b2457f4f completed March 27, 2026, 9:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6f2c18c0081908958b7ffeed7a787 completed March 27, 2026, 9:12 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:01 p.m.