Triple

T17961369
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Scientific Memoirs, Volume 3 E449089 entity
Predicate usedAsSourceIn P39729 FINISHED
Object histories of the Analytical Engine
"Histories of the Analytical Engine" is a scholarly work that traces the development, design, and significance of Charles Babbage’s pioneering mechanical computer within the broader history of computing.
E1298561 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: histories of the Analytical Engine | Statement: [Scientific Memoirs, Volume 3, usedAsSourceIn, histories of the Analytical Engine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: histories of the Analytical Engine
Context triple: [Scientific Memoirs, Volume 3, usedAsSourceIn, histories of the Analytical Engine]
  • A. Notes on the Analytical Engine
    Notes on the Analytical Engine is Ada Lovelace’s seminal commentary on Charles Babbage’s proposed mechanical computer, including what is often regarded as the first published computer program and visionary insights into general-purpose computation.
  • B. Analytical Engine
    The Analytical Engine was Charles Babbage’s pioneering 19th-century design for a fully programmable mechanical computer, featuring concepts like a central processing unit and memory that anticipated modern computing.
  • C. The Difference Engine
    The Difference Engine is a 1990 steampunk alternate-history novel, co-written by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson, that imagines a Victorian Britain transformed by early computer technology.
  • D. Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation
    Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation was the original title of a pioneering journal devoted to numerical analysis, computational methods, and mathematical tables, later continued under the name Mathematics of Computation.
  • E. Charles Babbage
    Charles Babbage was a 19th-century English mathematician, inventor, and mechanical engineer best known for designing early programmable computing machines such as the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine.
  • 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: histories of the Analytical Engine
Triple: [Scientific Memoirs, Volume 3, usedAsSourceIn, histories of the Analytical Engine]
Generated description
"Histories of the Analytical Engine" is a scholarly work that traces the development, design, and significance of Charles Babbage’s pioneering mechanical computer within the broader history of computing.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: histories of the Analytical Engine
Target entity description: "Histories of the Analytical Engine" is a scholarly work that traces the development, design, and significance of Charles Babbage’s pioneering mechanical computer within the broader history of computing.
  • A. Notes on the Analytical Engine
    Notes on the Analytical Engine is Ada Lovelace’s seminal commentary on Charles Babbage’s proposed mechanical computer, including what is often regarded as the first published computer program and visionary insights into general-purpose computation.
  • B. Analytical Engine
    The Analytical Engine was Charles Babbage’s pioneering 19th-century design for a fully programmable mechanical computer, featuring concepts like a central processing unit and memory that anticipated modern computing.
  • C. The Difference Engine
    The Difference Engine is a 1990 steampunk alternate-history novel, co-written by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson, that imagines a Victorian Britain transformed by early computer technology.
  • D. Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation
    Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation was the original title of a pioneering journal devoted to numerical analysis, computational methods, and mathematical tables, later continued under the name Mathematics of Computation.
  • E. Charles Babbage
    Charles Babbage was a 19th-century English mathematician, inventor, and mechanical engineer best known for designing early programmable computing machines such as the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine.
  • 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_69d8b9f8cca8819099836916c56b7c95 completed April 10, 2026, 8:51 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4b132cc10819088526a0b4b098d69 completed April 19, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a03300b9c348190b3ed7b66184ba350 completed May 12, 2026, 1:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0330cd28f08190a870c8cf6a33248a completed May 12, 2026, 1:53 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a033139e1a4819092cfcd4bd1c8c311 completed May 12, 2026, 1:55 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:22 a.m.