Triple

T945030
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Robert Boyle E20392 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air and its Effects
New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air and its Effects is a seminal 1660 scientific work by Robert Boyle that reports pioneering air-pump experiments and helps establish the foundations of modern experimental physics and chemistry.
E111091 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: New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air and its Effects | Statement: [Robert Boyle, notableWork, New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air and its Effects]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air and its Effects
Context triple: [Robert Boyle, notableWork, New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air and its Effects]
  • A. Experiments on Air
    Experiments on Air is an influential scientific work by Henry Cavendish detailing his pioneering investigations into the properties and composition of gases, including the study of hydrogen.
  • B. Illustrations of the Dynamical Theory of Gases
    Illustrations of the Dynamical Theory of Gases is a foundational 1860 scientific paper by James Clerk Maxwell that introduced key ideas of kinetic theory and the statistical behavior of gas molecules.
  • C. The Science of Mechanics
    The Science of Mechanics is Ernst Mach’s influential treatise that critically examines the foundations of classical mechanics and helped shape the development of modern physics and the philosophy of science.
  • D. Experimental Researches in Electricity
    Experimental Researches in Electricity is Michael Faraday’s landmark series of scientific papers detailing his foundational experiments and discoveries in electromagnetism and electrochemistry.
  • E. Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts
    Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts is an influential early 19th-century work by polymath Thomas Young that systematically presents his experimental and theoretical contributions to physics, particularly in optics and mechanics.
  • 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: New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air and its Effects
Triple: [Robert Boyle, notableWork, New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air and its Effects]
Generated description
New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air and its Effects is a seminal 1660 scientific work by Robert Boyle that reports pioneering air-pump experiments and helps establish the foundations of modern experimental physics and chemistry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air and its Effects
Target entity description: New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air and its Effects is a seminal 1660 scientific work by Robert Boyle that reports pioneering air-pump experiments and helps establish the foundations of modern experimental physics and chemistry.
  • A. Experiments on Air
    Experiments on Air is an influential scientific work by Henry Cavendish detailing his pioneering investigations into the properties and composition of gases, including the study of hydrogen.
  • B. Illustrations of the Dynamical Theory of Gases
    Illustrations of the Dynamical Theory of Gases is a foundational 1860 scientific paper by James Clerk Maxwell that introduced key ideas of kinetic theory and the statistical behavior of gas molecules.
  • C. The Science of Mechanics
    The Science of Mechanics is Ernst Mach’s influential treatise that critically examines the foundations of classical mechanics and helped shape the development of modern physics and the philosophy of science.
  • D. Experimental Researches in Electricity
    Experimental Researches in Electricity is Michael Faraday’s landmark series of scientific papers detailing his foundational experiments and discoveries in electromagnetism and electrochemistry.
  • E. Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts
    Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts is an influential early 19th-century work by polymath Thomas Young that systematically presents his experimental and theoretical contributions to physics, particularly in optics and mechanics.
  • 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_69a493b0270c81909e6c9ce310f6aa55 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b3a3ed3881908386af140477c514 completed March 1, 2026, 9:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a826e7d55c8190b9b871caead76733 completed March 4, 2026, 12:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a845a793e08190892fe1a545095f62 completed March 4, 2026, 2:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a8463631608190a9ada5605e9625aa completed March 4, 2026, 2:48 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.