Triple
T7916237
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Claude-Louis Navier |
E183834
|
entity |
| Predicate | influenced |
P9
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FINISHED |
| Object |
Osborne Reynolds
Osborne Reynolds was a pioneering 19th-century British engineer and physicist best known for his foundational work in fluid mechanics, particularly the concept of Reynolds number and the study of laminar and turbulent flow.
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E696936
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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: Osborne Reynolds | Statement: [Claude-Louis Navier, influenced, Osborne Reynolds]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Osborne Reynolds Context triple: [Claude-Louis Navier, influenced, Osborne Reynolds]
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A.
Ludwig Prandtl
Ludwig Prandtl was a pioneering German physicist and engineer known as the father of modern aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, particularly for his development of boundary layer theory.
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B.
G. K. Batchelor
G. K. Batchelor was a prominent British applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist known for his foundational contributions to turbulence theory and for authoring the classic text "An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics."
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C.
Philip G. Saffman
Philip G. Saffman was a prominent British-American applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist known for his influential work on vortex dynamics and the theory of turbulence.
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D.
G. I. Taylor
G. I. Taylor was a pioneering British physicist and applied mathematician renowned for his fundamental contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
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E.
Horace Lamb
Horace Lamb was a British applied mathematician renowned for his foundational work in hydrodynamics and the theory of sound.
- 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: Osborne Reynolds Triple: [Claude-Louis Navier, influenced, Osborne Reynolds]
Generated description
Osborne Reynolds was a pioneering 19th-century British engineer and physicist best known for his foundational work in fluid mechanics, particularly the concept of Reynolds number and the study of laminar and turbulent flow.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Osborne Reynolds Target entity description: Osborne Reynolds was a pioneering 19th-century British engineer and physicist best known for his foundational work in fluid mechanics, particularly the concept of Reynolds number and the study of laminar and turbulent flow.
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A.
Ludwig Prandtl
Ludwig Prandtl was a pioneering German physicist and engineer known as the father of modern aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, particularly for his development of boundary layer theory.
-
B.
G. K. Batchelor
G. K. Batchelor was a prominent British applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist known for his foundational contributions to turbulence theory and for authoring the classic text "An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics."
-
C.
Philip G. Saffman
Philip G. Saffman was a prominent British-American applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist known for his influential work on vortex dynamics and the theory of turbulence.
-
D.
G. I. Taylor
G. I. Taylor was a pioneering British physicist and applied mathematician renowned for his fundamental contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
-
E.
Horace Lamb
Horace Lamb was a British applied mathematician renowned for his foundational work in hydrodynamics and the theory of sound.
- 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_69ca828efbe48190bd48482650182e79 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cb3a76ae688190b068e4c92603a16d |
completed | March 31, 2026, 3:07 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cb5be54fdc81909a988114a6f30a13 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 5:30 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69cb5f20eb3c81909e059d5a02263aa2 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 5:44 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69cb76bb9a308190a9d7b34838d696db |
completed | March 31, 2026, 7:24 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:05 p.m.