Triple
T7151477
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Fourier transform spectrometer |
E166700
|
entity |
| Predicate | mayUse |
P273
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Mach–Zehnder interferometer |
E518522
|
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: Mach–Zehnder interferometer | Statement: [Fourier transform spectrometer, mayUse, Mach–Zehnder interferometer]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mach–Zehnder interferometer Context triple: [Fourier transform spectrometer, mayUse, Mach–Zehnder interferometer]
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A.
Mach–Zehnder interferometer
chosen
The Mach–Zehnder interferometer is an optical device that splits and recombines light beams to produce interference patterns, widely used to demonstrate and study fundamental principles of quantum mechanics and wave interference.
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B.
Michelson interferometer
The Michelson interferometer is a precision optical instrument that splits and recombines light beams to measure extremely small differences in path length, widely used in fundamental physics experiments and metrology.
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C.
Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect
The Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect is a quantum optical phenomenon in which correlations in the arrival times of identical particles, such as photons, reveal their underlying statistical and coherence properties.
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D.
Wollaston prism
A Wollaston prism is an optical device made of two birefringent crystal wedges cemented together to split a beam of light into two orthogonally polarized rays.
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E.
Cambridge interferometer arrays
The Cambridge interferometer arrays were pioneering radio astronomy instruments developed at the University of Cambridge that revolutionized the mapping of radio sources in the sky and contributed significantly to the development of aperture synthesis techniques.
- 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_69c68886779c8190a8e3fbabffe68253 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6e7f3e4a88190a3110f2368262528 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 8:26 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c7adad45208190a8e09173a4d26591 |
completed | March 28, 2026, 10:30 a.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:46 p.m.