Triple

T8803812
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Léon Foucault E209473 entity
Predicate hasInstrument P35 FINISHED
Object Foucault knife-edge tester E758295 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: Foucault knife-edge tester | Statement: [Léon Foucault, hasInstrument, Foucault knife-edge tester]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Foucault knife-edge tester
Context triple: [Léon Foucault, hasInstrument, Foucault knife-edge tester]
  • A. Foucault knife-edge test chosen
    The Foucault knife-edge test is an optical testing method used to evaluate the shape and quality of telescope mirrors by analyzing how light is blocked by a moving knife edge at the mirror’s focus.
  • 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.
  • C. Schmidt corrector plate
    A Schmidt corrector plate is a specially shaped aspheric lens used at the entrance of Schmidt-type telescopes to correct spherical aberration and produce a wide, well-corrected field of view.
  • D. Dall–Kirkham telescope design
    The Dall–Kirkham telescope design is a type of reflecting telescope that uses an elliptical primary mirror and a spherical secondary mirror to provide good on-axis image quality with relatively simple, easy-to-manufacture optics.
  • E. Maksutov–Cassegrain telescope design
    The Maksutov–Cassegrain telescope design is a compact catadioptric optical system that uses a spherical primary mirror and a meniscus corrector lens to provide long focal lengths with well-corrected, high-contrast images in a relatively short tube.
  • 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_69ca836320e48190b5cf585b90a322c4 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc5fbe15b081909e87dab6b5029d04 completed March 31, 2026, 11:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf8921a13081909346b97c024110b6 completed April 3, 2026, 9:32 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:44 p.m.