Triple

T14199733
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wilhelm Tempel E351930 entity
Predicate hasAsteroidNamedAfterHim P17121 FINISHED
Object 3808 Tempel
3808 Tempel is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of the 19th-century German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel, known for his discovery of several comets and nebulae.
E1085643 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: 3808 Tempel | Statement: [Wilhelm Tempel, hasAsteroidNamedAfterHim, 3808 Tempel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 3808 Tempel
Context triple: [Wilhelm Tempel, hasAsteroidNamedAfterHim, 3808 Tempel]
  • A. 1604 Tombaugh
    1604 Tombaugh is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto.
  • B. Wilhelm Tempel
    Wilhelm Tempel was a 19th-century German astronomer best known for discovering several comets and asteroids despite having no formal scientific education.
  • C. asteroid 1945 Wesselink
    Asteroid 1945 Wesselink is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Dutch astronomer Adriaan Wesselink.
  • D. asteroid 4179 Toutatis
    Asteroid 4179 Toutatis is a near-Earth, tumbling, elongated asteroid known for its close approaches to Earth and detailed radar imaging that revealed its distinctive contact-binary shape.
  • E. asteroid 1940 Whipple
    Asteroid 1940 Whipple is a minor planet in our solar system named in honor of American astronomer Fred Whipple, known for his work on comets.
  • 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: 3808 Tempel
Triple: [Wilhelm Tempel, hasAsteroidNamedAfterHim, 3808 Tempel]
Generated description
3808 Tempel is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of the 19th-century German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel, known for his discovery of several comets and nebulae.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 3808 Tempel
Target entity description: 3808 Tempel is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of the 19th-century German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel, known for his discovery of several comets and nebulae.
  • A. 1604 Tombaugh
    1604 Tombaugh is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto.
  • B. Wilhelm Tempel
    Wilhelm Tempel was a 19th-century German astronomer best known for discovering several comets and asteroids despite having no formal scientific education.
  • C. asteroid 1945 Wesselink
    Asteroid 1945 Wesselink is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of Dutch astronomer Adriaan Wesselink.
  • D. asteroid 4179 Toutatis
    Asteroid 4179 Toutatis is a near-Earth, tumbling, elongated asteroid known for its close approaches to Earth and detailed radar imaging that revealed its distinctive contact-binary shape.
  • E. asteroid 1940 Whipple
    Asteroid 1940 Whipple is a minor planet in our solar system named in honor of American astronomer Fred Whipple, known for his work on comets.
  • 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_69d827894ac0819097803e57f3227b23 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de61f472548190a1a7edc40526eac3 completed April 14, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd194f13688190af7ef5ceb92a73ff completed May 7, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd1b198c6c81909b71a51a39711754 completed May 7, 2026, 11:07 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd1bb585448190bc3393304980b808 completed May 7, 2026, 11:09 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:04 a.m.