Triple

T1213597
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject University of Königsberg E26057 entity
Predicate hasAcademicStaff P47 FINISHED
Object Friedrich Bessel
Friedrich Bessel was a German astronomer and mathematician renowned for his precise measurements of stellar positions and distances, including the first reliable determination of a star’s parallax.
E140043 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: Friedrich Bessel | Statement: [University of Königsberg, hasAcademicStaff, Friedrich Bessel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Friedrich Bessel
Context triple: [University of Königsberg, hasAcademicStaff, Friedrich Bessel]
  • A. Anton von Zach
    Anton von Zach was an Austrian general and staff officer best known for his role in the Napoleonic Wars, particularly during the Italian campaigns.
  • B. Urbain Le Verrier
    Urbain Le Verrier was a 19th-century French mathematician and astronomer renowned for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using celestial mechanics before it was directly observed.
  • C. Johann Galle
    Johann Galle was a 19th-century German astronomer best known for making the first observational confirmation of the planet Neptune.
  • D. Wilhelm Keppler
    Wilhelm Keppler was a German industrialist and early economic adviser to Adolf Hitler who became a prominent Nazi official involved in the regime’s economic and industrial policies.
  • E. Johann Heinrich Lambert
    Johann Heinrich Lambert was an 18th-century German-Swiss polymath of the Enlightenment, renowned for his pioneering work in mathematics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy, including the first rigorous proof of the irrationality of π.
  • 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: Friedrich Bessel
Triple: [University of Königsberg, hasAcademicStaff, Friedrich Bessel]
Generated description
Friedrich Bessel was a German astronomer and mathematician renowned for his precise measurements of stellar positions and distances, including the first reliable determination of a star’s parallax.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Friedrich Bessel
Target entity description: Friedrich Bessel was a German astronomer and mathematician renowned for his precise measurements of stellar positions and distances, including the first reliable determination of a star’s parallax.
  • A. Anton von Zach
    Anton von Zach was an Austrian general and staff officer best known for his role in the Napoleonic Wars, particularly during the Italian campaigns.
  • B. Urbain Le Verrier
    Urbain Le Verrier was a 19th-century French mathematician and astronomer renowned for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using celestial mechanics before it was directly observed.
  • C. Johann Galle
    Johann Galle was a 19th-century German astronomer best known for making the first observational confirmation of the planet Neptune.
  • D. Wilhelm Keppler
    Wilhelm Keppler was a German industrialist and early economic adviser to Adolf Hitler who became a prominent Nazi official involved in the regime’s economic and industrial policies.
  • E. Johann Heinrich Lambert
    Johann Heinrich Lambert was an 18th-century German-Swiss polymath of the Enlightenment, renowned for his pioneering work in mathematics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy, including the first rigorous proof of the irrationality of π.
  • 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_69a4948331fc8190b531ac9bec71c491 completed March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4be024e448190ba263a0cc5cc9cd5 completed March 1, 2026, 10:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac831d216081909d36529fc4692361 completed March 7, 2026, 7:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac83d4e7a08190bec19982db89a825 completed March 7, 2026, 8 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac85ed4eb48190ab96ec575edd3b7c completed March 7, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:46 p.m.