Triple

T1091073
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject George Ellery Hale E24162 entity
Predicate honorificEponym P12247 FINISHED
Object Hale Telescope
The Hale Telescope is a historic 200-inch reflecting telescope at Palomar Observatory in California that was once the world’s largest and remains a landmark instrument in observational astronomy.
E134885 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: Hale Telescope | Statement: [George Ellery Hale, honorificEponym, Hale Telescope]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hale Telescope
Context triple: [George Ellery Hale, honorificEponym, Hale Telescope]
  • A. 100-inch Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory
    The 100-inch Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory is a historic reflecting telescope that played a pivotal role in early 20th-century astronomy, including landmark discoveries about galaxies and the expanding universe.
  • B. du Pont Telescope
    The du Pont Telescope is a 2.5-meter optical telescope at Chile’s Las Campanas Observatory used for a wide range of astronomical imaging and spectroscopic research.
  • C. Swope Telescope
    The Swope Telescope is a 1-meter-class optical telescope at Chile’s Las Campanas Observatory, known for its role in supernova and transient object discoveries.
  • D. Baade Telescope
    The Baade Telescope is one of the twin 6.5-meter Magellan optical telescopes used for cutting-edge astronomical research in Chile.
  • E. Magellan Clay Telescope
    The Magellan Clay Telescope is one of the twin 6.5-meter Magellan telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, used for cutting-edge optical and infrared astronomical research.
  • 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: Hale Telescope
Triple: [George Ellery Hale, honorificEponym, Hale Telescope]
Generated description
The Hale Telescope is a historic 200-inch reflecting telescope at Palomar Observatory in California that was once the world’s largest and remains a landmark instrument in observational astronomy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hale Telescope
Target entity description: The Hale Telescope is a historic 200-inch reflecting telescope at Palomar Observatory in California that was once the world’s largest and remains a landmark instrument in observational astronomy.
  • A. 100-inch Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory
    The 100-inch Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory is a historic reflecting telescope that played a pivotal role in early 20th-century astronomy, including landmark discoveries about galaxies and the expanding universe.
  • B. du Pont Telescope
    The du Pont Telescope is a 2.5-meter optical telescope at Chile’s Las Campanas Observatory used for a wide range of astronomical imaging and spectroscopic research.
  • C. Swope Telescope
    The Swope Telescope is a 1-meter-class optical telescope at Chile’s Las Campanas Observatory, known for its role in supernova and transient object discoveries.
  • D. Baade Telescope
    The Baade Telescope is one of the twin 6.5-meter Magellan optical telescopes used for cutting-edge astronomical research in Chile.
  • E. Magellan Clay Telescope
    The Magellan Clay Telescope is one of the twin 6.5-meter Magellan telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, used for cutting-edge optical and infrared astronomical research.
  • 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_69a49404428c819092dcc9632f5f7b8b completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b980c8448190b08c3a9a7e7f4e85 completed March 1, 2026, 10:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac6f0c7d4c819082672393b0542af4 completed March 7, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac6fd219dc8190a64dedf45383c8fa completed March 7, 2026, 6:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac703361e8819090a4789599bc8e36 completed March 7, 2026, 6:36 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.