Triple

T12857810
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Horrocks E307499 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object John Horrocks (astronomer)
John Horrocks was a 17th-century English astronomer and mathematician noted for his early observation of a transit of Venus and his contributions to improving astronomical measurements.
E1006271 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: John Horrocks (astronomer) | Statement: [Horrocks, hasNotableBearer, John Horrocks (astronomer)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Horrocks (astronomer)
Context triple: [Horrocks, hasNotableBearer, John Horrocks (astronomer)]
  • A. John Flamsteed
    John Flamsteed was a 17th–18th century English astronomer best known as the first Astronomer Royal and for his foundational star cataloguing work.
  • B. Edmund Halley
    Edmund Halley was an English astronomer and mathematician best known for calculating the orbit of the periodic comet that now bears his name, Halley’s Comet.
  • 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. 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."
  • E. William Herschel
    William Herschel was an 18th-century British-German astronomer and composer best known for discovering the planet Uranus and pioneering deep-sky surveys of the night sky.
  • 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: John Horrocks (astronomer)
Triple: [Horrocks, hasNotableBearer, John Horrocks (astronomer)]
Generated description
John Horrocks was a 17th-century English astronomer and mathematician noted for his early observation of a transit of Venus and his contributions to improving astronomical measurements.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Horrocks (astronomer)
Target entity description: John Horrocks was a 17th-century English astronomer and mathematician noted for his early observation of a transit of Venus and his contributions to improving astronomical measurements.
  • A. John Flamsteed
    John Flamsteed was a 17th–18th century English astronomer best known as the first Astronomer Royal and for his foundational star cataloguing work.
  • B. Edmund Halley
    Edmund Halley was an English astronomer and mathematician best known for calculating the orbit of the periodic comet that now bears his name, Halley’s Comet.
  • 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. 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."
  • E. William Herschel
    William Herschel was an 18th-century British-German astronomer and composer best known for discovering the planet Uranus and pioneering deep-sky surveys of the night sky.
  • 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_69d7bdf5e7cc8190be357278bc5ba3bb completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d970242bd48190941cbae0315ebc3d completed April 10, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f69bac0c1081909217d865aa8bf9a3 completed May 3, 2026, 12:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f69cc60c488190a5a71e25c075e9ff completed May 3, 2026, 12:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f69d845a9081909b40562825c1c500 completed May 3, 2026, 12:57 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:37 p.m.