Triple

T6642054
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Marin Mersenne E150608 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object Gilles Personne de Roberval
Gilles Personne de Roberval was a 17th-century French mathematician known for his work on geometry, the method of indivisibles, and early developments in integral calculus.
E609418 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: Gilles Personne de Roberval | Statement: [Marin Mersenne, influenced, Gilles Personne de Roberval]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gilles Personne de Roberval
Context triple: [Marin Mersenne, influenced, Gilles Personne de Roberval]
  • A. François de la Chaise
    François de la Chaise was a 17th-century French Jesuit priest and confessor to King Louis XIV, whose name was later given to Paris’s famous Père Lachaise Cemetery.
  • B. Eustache de Saint Pierre
    Eustache de Saint Pierre was a prominent 14th-century citizen of Calais famed for volunteering as one of the burghers to sacrifice himself to King Edward III during the siege of Calais in the Hundred Years’ War.
  • C. Guillaume de l’Hôpital
    Guillaume de l’Hôpital was a French mathematician best known for L’Hôpital’s rule, a fundamental method for evaluating indeterminate limits in calculus.
  • D. Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
    Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc was a 17th-century French astronomer, antiquary, and humanist scholar known for his wide-ranging scientific observations and correspondence across Europe.
  • E. Jean-Baptiste Marchand
    Jean-Baptiste Marchand was a French military officer and explorer best known for leading the French expedition to Fashoda in 1898, a key episode in the imperial rivalry between France and Britain in Africa.
  • 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: Gilles Personne de Roberval
Triple: [Marin Mersenne, influenced, Gilles Personne de Roberval]
Generated description
Gilles Personne de Roberval was a 17th-century French mathematician known for his work on geometry, the method of indivisibles, and early developments in integral calculus.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gilles Personne de Roberval
Target entity description: Gilles Personne de Roberval was a 17th-century French mathematician known for his work on geometry, the method of indivisibles, and early developments in integral calculus.
  • A. François de la Chaise
    François de la Chaise was a 17th-century French Jesuit priest and confessor to King Louis XIV, whose name was later given to Paris’s famous Père Lachaise Cemetery.
  • B. Eustache de Saint Pierre
    Eustache de Saint Pierre was a prominent 14th-century citizen of Calais famed for volunteering as one of the burghers to sacrifice himself to King Edward III during the siege of Calais in the Hundred Years’ War.
  • C. Guillaume de l’Hôpital
    Guillaume de l’Hôpital was a French mathematician best known for L’Hôpital’s rule, a fundamental method for evaluating indeterminate limits in calculus.
  • D. Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
    Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc was a 17th-century French astronomer, antiquary, and humanist scholar known for his wide-ranging scientific observations and correspondence across Europe.
  • E. Jean-Baptiste Marchand
    Jean-Baptiste Marchand was a French military officer and explorer best known for leading the French expedition to Fashoda in 1898, a key episode in the imperial rivalry between France and Britain in Africa.
  • 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_69c687f1a3048190828b7342f7125d5c completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6aff5da8881909a512c1c82eb882a completed March 27, 2026, 4:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6eeef3f7481909929838858225f41 completed March 27, 2026, 8:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6f0a1149c8190af55a613eada84b6 completed March 27, 2026, 9:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6f17ccd7c8190918e03b114f4f064 completed March 27, 2026, 9:07 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2 p.m.