Triple

T12599584
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Bradley E300820 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Discovery of the nutation of the Earth's axis (1740s observations)
The "Discovery of the nutation of the Earth's axis" refers to James Bradley’s 18th-century identification of a small, periodic wobble in Earth’s rotational axis, a key advance in understanding Earth’s motion and improving astronomical measurements.
E991884 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: Discovery of the nutation of the Earth's axis (1740s observations) | Statement: [James Bradley, notableWork, Discovery of the nutation of the Earth's axis (1740s observations)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Discovery of the nutation of the Earth's axis (1740s observations)
Context triple: [James Bradley, notableWork, Discovery of the nutation of the Earth's axis (1740s observations)]
  • A. On the Measurement of the Earth
    "On the Measurement of the Earth" is an ancient treatise in which Eratosthenes used geometric reasoning and observations of the Sun to calculate the Earth's circumference with remarkable accuracy.
  • B. On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon
    On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon is an ancient Greek astronomical treatise that presents one of the earliest known geometric attempts to quantify the relative sizes and distances of the Sun and Moon from Earth.
  • C. Rudolphine Tables
    The Rudolphine Tables are a landmark 17th-century star catalog and set of astronomical tables compiled by Johannes Kepler, renowned for their unprecedented accuracy in predicting planetary positions.
  • D. Milanković calendar
    The Milanković calendar is a 20th-century reform of the Julian calendar, designed by Serbian scientist Milutin Milanković to more accurately align the civil year with the solar year and used by some Eastern Orthodox churches.
  • E. Gauss’s planetary equations
    Gauss’s planetary equations are a set of differential equations in celestial mechanics that describe how a planet’s orbital elements change over time under the influence of perturbing forces.
  • 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: Discovery of the nutation of the Earth's axis (1740s observations)
Triple: [James Bradley, notableWork, Discovery of the nutation of the Earth's axis (1740s observations)]
Generated description
The "Discovery of the nutation of the Earth's axis" refers to James Bradley’s 18th-century identification of a small, periodic wobble in Earth’s rotational axis, a key advance in understanding Earth’s motion and improving astronomical measurements.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Discovery of the nutation of the Earth's axis (1740s observations)
Target entity description: The "Discovery of the nutation of the Earth's axis" refers to James Bradley’s 18th-century identification of a small, periodic wobble in Earth’s rotational axis, a key advance in understanding Earth’s motion and improving astronomical measurements.
  • A. On the Measurement of the Earth
    "On the Measurement of the Earth" is an ancient treatise in which Eratosthenes used geometric reasoning and observations of the Sun to calculate the Earth's circumference with remarkable accuracy.
  • B. On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon
    On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon is an ancient Greek astronomical treatise that presents one of the earliest known geometric attempts to quantify the relative sizes and distances of the Sun and Moon from Earth.
  • C. Rudolphine Tables
    The Rudolphine Tables are a landmark 17th-century star catalog and set of astronomical tables compiled by Johannes Kepler, renowned for their unprecedented accuracy in predicting planetary positions.
  • D. Milanković calendar
    The Milanković calendar is a 20th-century reform of the Julian calendar, designed by Serbian scientist Milutin Milanković to more accurately align the civil year with the solar year and used by some Eastern Orthodox churches.
  • E. Gauss’s planetary equations
    Gauss’s planetary equations are a set of differential equations in celestial mechanics that describe how a planet’s orbital elements change over time under the influence of perturbing forces.
  • 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_69d7bdea2ca881908f379526c13b1145 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d954d096d08190afa1f685bad68d35 completed April 10, 2026, 7:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f65ec92c6c8190bd2d193e70940407 completed May 2, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f65faf33e0819092df07a5fa98cb73 completed May 2, 2026, 8:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f66036f520819098af75cd5578d573 completed May 2, 2026, 8:36 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:09 p.m.