Triple

T12316158
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Herschel E293603 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Sir John Frederick William Herschel E293603 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Sir John Frederick William Herschel | Statement: [John Herschel, fullName, Sir John Frederick William Herschel]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sir John Frederick William Herschel
Context triple: [John Herschel, fullName, Sir John Frederick William Herschel]
  • A. John Herschel chosen
    John Herschel was a 19th-century English astronomer, mathematician, and polymath known for his extensive cataloging of stars and nebulae and for making significant contributions to photography and the study of light.
  • B. William Lassell
    William Lassell was a 19th-century English astronomer renowned for his telescopic discoveries of several moons of the outer planets, including Neptune's moon Triton and Uranus's moon Ariel.
  • C. Francis Baily
    Francis Baily was a prominent 19th-century English astronomer best known for his detailed observations of solar eclipses, including the phenomenon now called "Baily's beads."
  • D. Norman Robert Pogson
    Norman Robert Pogson was a 19th-century English astronomer best known for defining the modern stellar magnitude scale and for his extensive observations and discoveries of asteroids and variable stars.
  • E. James Dunlop
    James Dunlop was a 19th-century Scottish-born astronomer known for his extensive cataloging of southern sky deep-sky objects while working in Australia.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d6ab6a2b50819082f6aedd32ed608a elicitation completed
NER batch_69d93f05186481909c024a933b4f6c60 ner completed
NED1 batch_69f63eefad508190be266c776525a7cc ned_source_triple completed
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:53 p.m.