Triple

T18271654
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject European scholastic optics E437628 entity
Predicate majorFigure P1183 FINISHED
Object Nicole Oresme
Nicole Oresme was a 14th-century French philosopher, mathematician, and theologian known for his influential work in natural philosophy, including early contributions to optics, motion, and the use of graphical methods in mathematics.
E1315111 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: Nicole Oresme | Statement: [European scholastic optics, majorFigure, Nicole Oresme]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicole Oresme
Context triple: [European scholastic optics, majorFigure, Nicole Oresme]
  • A. Pierre d’Ailly
    Pierre d’Ailly was a prominent late medieval French theologian, philosopher, and cardinal known for his influential role in church politics and scholastic thought.
  • B. Urbain Cassan
    Urbain Cassan was a French architect best known for co-designing Paris’s Tour Montparnasse, one of the city’s most prominent modern skyscrapers.
  • C. Guillaume Postel
    Guillaume Postel was a 16th-century French linguist, Orientalist, and mystic known for his utopian universalist ideas and extensive studies of Eastern languages and cultures.
  • D. John Buridan
    John Buridan was a 14th-century French philosopher and logician best known for developing the theory of impetus, which anticipated aspects of modern inertia and significantly influenced late medieval natural philosophy.
  • E. Albertus Pighius
    Albertus Pighius was a 16th-century Dutch Catholic theologian and humanist known for his vigorous defense of papal authority and opposition to Protestant reformers like John Calvin.
  • 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: Nicole Oresme
Triple: [European scholastic optics, majorFigure, Nicole Oresme]
Generated description
Nicole Oresme was a 14th-century French philosopher, mathematician, and theologian known for his influential work in natural philosophy, including early contributions to optics, motion, and the use of graphical methods in mathematics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicole Oresme
Target entity description: Nicole Oresme was a 14th-century French philosopher, mathematician, and theologian known for his influential work in natural philosophy, including early contributions to optics, motion, and the use of graphical methods in mathematics.
  • A. Pierre d’Ailly
    Pierre d’Ailly was a prominent late medieval French theologian, philosopher, and cardinal known for his influential role in church politics and scholastic thought.
  • B. Urbain Cassan
    Urbain Cassan was a French architect best known for co-designing Paris’s Tour Montparnasse, one of the city’s most prominent modern skyscrapers.
  • C. Guillaume Postel
    Guillaume Postel was a 16th-century French linguist, Orientalist, and mystic known for his utopian universalist ideas and extensive studies of Eastern languages and cultures.
  • D. John Buridan
    John Buridan was a 14th-century French philosopher and logician best known for developing the theory of impetus, which anticipated aspects of modern inertia and significantly influenced late medieval natural philosophy.
  • E. Albertus Pighius
    Albertus Pighius was a 16th-century Dutch Catholic theologian and humanist known for his vigorous defense of papal authority and opposition to Protestant reformers like John Calvin.
  • 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_69d8b913351c8190932b6a426de04b41 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4ff7e00548190a28916a696831336 completed April 19, 2026, 4:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a03b3fa5e4481908cf404f23b48b64d completed May 12, 2026, 11:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03b4bb6ae48190a68c2a3314f0d3ba completed May 12, 2026, 11:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03b56958a0819088613a9726c71819 completed May 12, 2026, 11:19 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:34 a.m.