Triple

T9035424
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau E216479 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object Fizeau interferometer
The Fizeau interferometer is an optical instrument that uses the interference of light reflected between closely spaced surfaces to make highly precise measurements of distances, surface flatness, and refractive index.
E773724 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: Fizeau interferometer | Statement: [Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau, knownFor, Fizeau interferometer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fizeau interferometer
Context triple: [Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau, knownFor, Fizeau 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. 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.
  • C. Sagnac interferometer
    A Sagnac interferometer is an optical device that splits and recombines light traveling in opposite directions around a closed loop to measure rotation or phase shifts with high precision.
  • 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. Fizeau experiment
    The Fizeau experiment was a pioneering 19th-century physics experiment that measured the speed of light using a rotating toothed wheel and helped establish light’s finite velocity.
  • 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: Fizeau interferometer
Triple: [Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau, knownFor, Fizeau interferometer]
Generated description
The Fizeau interferometer is an optical instrument that uses the interference of light reflected between closely spaced surfaces to make highly precise measurements of distances, surface flatness, and refractive index.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fizeau interferometer
Target entity description: The Fizeau interferometer is an optical instrument that uses the interference of light reflected between closely spaced surfaces to make highly precise measurements of distances, surface flatness, and refractive index.
  • 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. 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.
  • C. Sagnac interferometer
    A Sagnac interferometer is an optical device that splits and recombines light traveling in opposite directions around a closed loop to measure rotation or phase shifts with high precision.
  • 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. Fizeau experiment
    The Fizeau experiment was a pioneering 19th-century physics experiment that measured the speed of light using a rotating toothed wheel and helped establish light’s finite velocity.
  • 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_69ca83d10b608190b2b2f8e0a7faaf14 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc6abf4af481908d21245332329d99 completed April 1, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfdbd1cd688190a4456f242e6d3ddf completed April 3, 2026, 3:25 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfdc9868fc8190addad6b87b567277 completed April 3, 2026, 3:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfe0aafe4c81908a5b31590f6c9152 completed April 3, 2026, 3:45 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:08 p.m.