Triple

T12316185
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Herschel E293603 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object Alexander Stewart Herschel
Alexander Stewart Herschel was a 19th-century British astronomer known for his pioneering work on meteors and meteor showers, continuing the scientific legacy of the Herschel family.
E987632 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: Alexander Stewart Herschel | Statement: [John Herschel, child, Alexander Stewart Herschel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Stewart Herschel
Context triple: [John Herschel, child, Alexander Stewart Herschel]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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."
  • C. 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.
  • D. Sir William Parsons
    Sir William Parsons was an English-born administrator who served as Lord Justice of Ireland and played a central role in the government’s response to the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
  • 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. 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: Alexander Stewart Herschel
Triple: [John Herschel, child, Alexander Stewart Herschel]
Generated description
Alexander Stewart Herschel was a 19th-century British astronomer known for his pioneering work on meteors and meteor showers, continuing the scientific legacy of the Herschel family.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Stewart Herschel
Target entity description: Alexander Stewart Herschel was a 19th-century British astronomer known for his pioneering work on meteors and meteor showers, continuing the scientific legacy of the Herschel family.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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."
  • C. 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.
  • D. Sir William Parsons
    Sir William Parsons was an English-born administrator who served as Lord Justice of Ireland and played a central role in the government’s response to the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
  • 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. 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_69d6ab6a2b50819082f6aedd32ed608a completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d93f05186481909c024a933b4f6c60 completed April 10, 2026, 6:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f64b8cf0e8819088f5ee03495bbf61 completed May 2, 2026, 7:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f64d15a97c81909046190f0d0fd986 completed May 2, 2026, 7:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f64e6d311c8190b851b89e394165d0 completed May 2, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:53 p.m.