Triple

T12105850
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject An Introduction to Practical Astronomy E288300 entity
Predicate hasAuthorOccupation P938 FINISHED
Object Elias Loomis was a mathematician
Elias Loomis was a 19th-century American mathematician and astronomer known for his influential textbooks and research in astronomy and meteorology.
 E966769 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: Elias Loomis was a mathematician | Statement: [An Introduction to Practical Astronomy, hasAuthorOccupation, Elias Loomis was a mathematician]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Elias Loomis was a mathematician
Context triple: [An Introduction to Practical Astronomy, hasAuthorOccupation, Elias Loomis was a mathematician]
  • A. George David Birkhoff
    George David Birkhoff was an influential American mathematician best known for his work in dynamical systems and for formulating the ergodic theorem.
  • B. Eugene Gauss
    Eugene Gauss was one of the sons of the renowned German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.
  • C. E. H. Moore
    E. H. Moore was an influential American mathematician known for his work in abstract algebra and for helping to shape the development of modern mathematical research in the United States.
  • D. William Eddins McMath
    William Eddins McMath was an American individual known primarily through genealogical records as the husband of Lela Emogene Owens McMath.
  • E. Louis Mordell
    Louis Mordell was a prominent British mathematician known for his influential work in number theory, particularly the Mordell conjecture and the Mordell–Weil theorem.
  • 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: Elias Loomis was a mathematician
Triple: [An Introduction to Practical Astronomy, hasAuthorOccupation, Elias Loomis was a mathematician]
Generated description
Elias Loomis was a 19th-century American mathematician and astronomer known for his influential textbooks and research in astronomy and meteorology.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Elias Loomis was a mathematician
Target entity description: Elias Loomis was a 19th-century American mathematician and astronomer known for his influential textbooks and research in astronomy and meteorology.
  • A. George David Birkhoff
    George David Birkhoff was an influential American mathematician best known for his work in dynamical systems and for formulating the ergodic theorem.
  • B. Eugene Gauss
    Eugene Gauss was one of the sons of the renowned German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.
  • C. E. H. Moore
    E. H. Moore was an influential American mathematician known for his work in abstract algebra and for helping to shape the development of modern mathematical research in the United States.
  • D. William Eddins McMath
    William Eddins McMath was an American individual known primarily through genealogical records as the husband of Lela Emogene Owens McMath.
  • E. Louis Mordell
    Louis Mordell was a prominent British mathematician known for his influential work in number theory, particularly the Mordell conjecture and the Mordell–Weil theorem.
  • 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_69d6ab4a5c448190a110d1273314b21a completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d91561eaec819096ba00682d81f41a completed April 10, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f5f6795bf88190891acf918a432bef completed May 2, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f60263bc6c8190b867b4af20305e57 completed May 2, 2026, 1:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6033935c08190980bd69395c250e4 completed May 2, 2026, 1:59 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:49 p.m.