Triple

T3572708

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Principles of Optics	`E75611`	entity
Predicate	contributor	`P1993`	FINISHED
Object	P. A. Wayman P. A. Wayman is a physicist known for his contributions to the influential optics textbook "Principles of Optics."	`E2153510`	NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (1 step)

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.

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: P. A. Wayman
Triple: [Principles of Optics, contributor, P. A. Wayman]

Generated description

P. A. Wayman is a physicist known for his contributions to the influential optics textbook "Principles of Optics."

Provenance (4 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_69ad85d5e3008190bdfe0bacdd1f5a1b`	completed	March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_6a387d195f408190b0567548ea3fd7a3`	completed	June 22, 2026, 12:08 a.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_6a387e0b606c819093d074bde21518d2`	completed	June 22, 2026, 12:12 a.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_6a3880fb52d4819099c2bdba7e7d948f`	completed	June 22, 2026, 12:25 a.m.

Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:21 p.m.