Triple

T14113841
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Leiden Observatory E339711 entity
Predicate hasResearcher P28320 FINISHED
Object Henk van de Hulst
Henk van de Hulst was a Dutch astronomer and physicist renowned for predicting the 21-centimeter hydrogen line, a discovery crucial to radio astronomy and the study of the Milky Way.
E1122841 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: Henk van de Hulst | Statement: [Leiden Observatory, hasResearcher, Henk van de Hulst]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henk van de Hulst
Context triple: [Leiden Observatory, hasResearcher, Henk van de Hulst]
  • A. Piet Klijnveld
    Piet Klijnveld was a Dutch accountant and entrepreneur who co-founded the international professional services firm that later became part of KPMG.
  • B. Piet Keizer
    Piet Keizer was a renowned Dutch footballer, best known as a skillful left winger for Ajax and the Netherlands national team during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
  • C. Henk van Woerden
    Henk van Woerden was a Dutch writer, painter, and essayist known for his works on South African history and apartheid, including his acclaimed book about the assassin of Hendrik Verwoerd.
  • D. Koos Vorrink
    Koos Vorrink was a prominent Dutch social-democratic politician and trade union leader who played a key role in shaping the modern Labour Party (PvdA) in the Netherlands.
  • E. Piet de Jong
    Piet de Jong was a Dutch politician who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1967 to 1971.
  • 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: Henk van de Hulst
Triple: [Leiden Observatory, hasResearcher, Henk van de Hulst]
Generated description
Henk van de Hulst was a Dutch astronomer and physicist renowned for predicting the 21-centimeter hydrogen line, a discovery crucial to radio astronomy and the study of the Milky Way.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henk van de Hulst
Target entity description: Henk van de Hulst was a Dutch astronomer and physicist renowned for predicting the 21-centimeter hydrogen line, a discovery crucial to radio astronomy and the study of the Milky Way.
  • A. Piet Klijnveld
    Piet Klijnveld was a Dutch accountant and entrepreneur who co-founded the international professional services firm that later became part of KPMG.
  • B. Piet Keizer
    Piet Keizer was a renowned Dutch footballer, best known as a skillful left winger for Ajax and the Netherlands national team during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
  • C. Henk van Woerden
    Henk van Woerden was a Dutch writer, painter, and essayist known for his works on South African history and apartheid, including his acclaimed book about the assassin of Hendrik Verwoerd.
  • D. Koos Vorrink
    Koos Vorrink was a prominent Dutch social-democratic politician and trade union leader who played a key role in shaping the modern Labour Party (PvdA) in the Netherlands.
  • E. Piet de Jong
    Piet de Jong was a Dutch politician who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1967 to 1971.
  • 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_69d81c6a95b481909e39111e0c1f31ee completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de600f992c81908133813f2894dcca completed April 14, 2026, 3:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe387c02108190badf9b5051cd9c7a completed May 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe3df36364819081a7275b2ac604a6 completed May 8, 2026, 7:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe3e4c9cd08190b83fd437fa96297d completed May 8, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:22 p.m.