Triple

T8832252
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Moiré deflectometer E210172 entity
Predicate relatedTo P37 FINISHED
Object Talbot interferometer
A Talbot interferometer is an optical device that exploits the Talbot effect—self-imaging of periodic structures under coherent illumination—to perform high-precision wavefront and phase measurements.
E210172 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: Talbot interferometer | Statement: [Moiré deflectometer, relatedTo, Talbot interferometer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Talbot interferometer
Context triple: [Moiré deflectometer, relatedTo, Talbot interferometer]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Moiré deflectometer
    A Moiré deflectometer is a precision optical instrument that measures tiny angular deviations or deflections in particle or light beams by analyzing interference-like moiré fringe patterns formed by multiple gratings.
  • C. Mach–Zehnder interferometer
    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.
  • D. Foucault knife-edge test
    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.
  • E. Zernike phase-contrast method
    The Zernike phase-contrast method is a microscopy technique that converts phase shifts in light passing through transparent specimens into intensity differences, enabling detailed visualization of living cells and other unstained samples.
  • 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: Talbot interferometer
Triple: [Moiré deflectometer, relatedTo, Talbot interferometer]
Generated description
A Talbot interferometer is an optical device that exploits the Talbot effect—self-imaging of periodic structures under coherent illumination—to perform high-precision wavefront and phase measurements.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Talbot interferometer
Target entity description: A Talbot interferometer is an optical device that exploits the Talbot effect—self-imaging of periodic structures under coherent illumination—to perform high-precision wavefront and phase measurements.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Moiré deflectometer chosen
    A Moiré deflectometer is a precision optical instrument that measures tiny angular deviations or deflections in particle or light beams by analyzing interference-like moiré fringe patterns formed by multiple gratings.
  • C. Mach–Zehnder interferometer
    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.
  • D. Foucault knife-edge test
    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.
  • E. Zernike phase-contrast method
    The Zernike phase-contrast method is a microscopy technique that converts phase shifts in light passing through transparent specimens into intensity differences, enabling detailed visualization of living cells and other unstained samples.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ca8365b28081909e48e45e95dfc405 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc605005788190a4df1fe317f3056a completed April 1, 2026, 12:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf896cf5a8819098a76288bd505c1e completed April 3, 2026, 9:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf8adfe8a08190a959f650207a2ca8 completed April 3, 2026, 9:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf8bc521dc81908918b48a25f290bb completed April 3, 2026, 9:43 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:47 p.m.