Triple

T6938734
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Euler Book Prize E160618 entity
Predicate notableRecipientWork P17579 FINISHED
Object Letters to a Young Mathematician
"Letters to a Young Mathematician" is a popular science book by Ian Stewart that offers personal, accessible guidance on the nature of mathematical thinking and the life of a mathematician.
E629510 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: Letters to a Young Mathematician | Statement: [Euler Book Prize, notableRecipientWork, Letters to a Young Mathematician]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Letters to a Young Mathematician
Context triple: [Euler Book Prize, notableRecipientWork, Letters to a Young Mathematician]
  • A. The Great Mathematical Problems
    The Great Mathematical Problems is a popular mathematics book by Ian Stewart that explores some of the most famous unsolved and historically significant problems in mathematics for a general audience.
  • B. A Mathematician's Apology
    A Mathematician's Apology is G. H. Hardy’s classic reflective essay that defends the aesthetic value of pure mathematics and offers a candid, personal account of the mathematician’s life and creative process.
  • C. Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
    Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities is a popular science book that presents an entertaining collection of mathematical puzzles, paradoxes, anecdotes, and surprising facts aimed at a general audience.
  • D. Birth of a Theorem
    Birth of a Theorem is a memoir-style mathematical narrative by Fields Medalist Cédric Villani that chronicles the creative and personal journey behind one of his major research breakthroughs.
  • E. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
    The Man Who Loved Only Numbers is a popular biography of Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, portraying his eccentric life, prolific collaborations, and profound impact on 20th-century mathematics.
  • 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: Letters to a Young Mathematician
Triple: [Euler Book Prize, notableRecipientWork, Letters to a Young Mathematician]
Generated description
"Letters to a Young Mathematician" is a popular science book by Ian Stewart that offers personal, accessible guidance on the nature of mathematical thinking and the life of a mathematician.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Letters to a Young Mathematician
Target entity description: "Letters to a Young Mathematician" is a popular science book by Ian Stewart that offers personal, accessible guidance on the nature of mathematical thinking and the life of a mathematician.
  • A. The Great Mathematical Problems
    The Great Mathematical Problems is a popular mathematics book by Ian Stewart that explores some of the most famous unsolved and historically significant problems in mathematics for a general audience.
  • B. A Mathematician's Apology
    A Mathematician's Apology is G. H. Hardy’s classic reflective essay that defends the aesthetic value of pure mathematics and offers a candid, personal account of the mathematician’s life and creative process.
  • C. Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
    Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities is a popular science book that presents an entertaining collection of mathematical puzzles, paradoxes, anecdotes, and surprising facts aimed at a general audience.
  • D. Birth of a Theorem
    Birth of a Theorem is a memoir-style mathematical narrative by Fields Medalist Cédric Villani that chronicles the creative and personal journey behind one of his major research breakthroughs.
  • E. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
    The Man Who Loved Only Numbers is a popular biography of Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, portraying his eccentric life, prolific collaborations, and profound impact on 20th-century mathematics.
  • 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_69c6884f3db4819080ad65da69386206 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e1d144648190b7e6558246b013e3 completed March 27, 2026, 8 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7515509148190b5739cdf8cd7a28a completed March 28, 2026, 3:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c752c9b3d08190960d3c1aa88a93a7 completed March 28, 2026, 4:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7537ea24c819081bb672d43d4a373 completed March 28, 2026, 4:05 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:28 p.m.