Triple

T10903182
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Henry Pickering E257498 entity
Predicate hasLunarCraterNamedAfter P11961 FINISHED
Object Pickering (lunar crater)
Pickering (lunar crater) is a small, relatively young impact crater on the Moon named in honor of American astronomer William Henry Pickering.
 E891891 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: Pickering (lunar crater) | Statement: [William Henry Pickering, hasLunarCraterNamedAfter, Pickering (lunar crater)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Pickering (lunar crater)
Context triple: [William Henry Pickering, hasLunarCraterNamedAfter, Pickering (lunar crater)]
  • A. Russell lunar crater
    Russell is a large, heavily eroded lunar impact crater located near the western limb of the Moon.
  • B. Baade lunar crater
    Baade lunar crater is a large impact feature on the Moon’s far side named in honor of German astronomer Walter Baade.
  • C. McNair crater on the Moon
    McNair crater on the Moon is a lunar impact crater named in honor of astronaut and physicist Ronald McNair, one of the crew members who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • D. Murchison crater (Moon)
    Murchison crater (Moon) is a large, ancient impact crater on the Moon’s near side, notable for its heavily eroded walls and partially flooded floor.
  • E. Poynting crater
    Poynting crater is a large, heavily eroded impact crater on the far side of the Moon, named after British physicist John Henry Poynting.
  • 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: Pickering (lunar crater)
Triple: [William Henry Pickering, hasLunarCraterNamedAfter, Pickering (lunar crater)]
Generated description
Pickering (lunar crater) is a small, relatively young impact crater on the Moon named in honor of American astronomer William Henry Pickering.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Pickering (lunar crater)
Target entity description: Pickering (lunar crater) is a small, relatively young impact crater on the Moon named in honor of American astronomer William Henry Pickering.
  • A. Russell lunar crater
    Russell is a large, heavily eroded lunar impact crater located near the western limb of the Moon.
  • B. Baade lunar crater
    Baade lunar crater is a large impact feature on the Moon’s far side named in honor of German astronomer Walter Baade.
  • C. McNair crater on the Moon
    McNair crater on the Moon is a lunar impact crater named in honor of astronaut and physicist Ronald McNair, one of the crew members who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • D. Murchison crater (Moon)
    Murchison crater (Moon) is a large, ancient impact crater on the Moon’s near side, notable for its heavily eroded walls and partially flooded floor.
  • E. Poynting crater
    Poynting crater is a large, heavily eroded impact crater on the far side of the Moon, named after British physicist John Henry Poynting.
  • 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_69d6aa8550c8819095508a2ed9acf3db completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d761a4e9d48190b107839761a2152b completed April 9, 2026, 8:21 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e1553bb88c8190b9730a31977e1dd1 completed April 16, 2026, 9:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e175e336848190b2c7226524266efa completed April 16, 2026, 11:50 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e17d46b7b881908bc3246b462f4612 completed April 17, 2026, 12:22 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:22 p.m.