Triple

T1465581
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Simon Newcomb E27014 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Newcomb
Newcomb is a surname most notably associated with Simon Newcomb, a 19th-century Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician.
 E167725 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: Newcomb | Statement: [Simon Newcomb, familyName, Newcomb]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Newcomb
Context triple: [Simon Newcomb, familyName, Newcomb]
  • A. Livermore
    Livermore is a city in California’s Tri-Valley region known for its wine country, historic downtown, and proximity to major scientific research facilities.
  • B. Dixon
    Dixon is a small agricultural city in Northern California known historically for sheep ranching and its annual May Fair.
  • C. Dunlap
    Dunlap is a minor character in the play "Inherit the Wind," appearing as one of the townspeople involved in the trial’s tense, small-town atmosphere.
  • D. Seymour
    Seymour is a small unincorporated community and suburban area in eastern Tennessee, situated near Knoxville in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.
  • E. Niles
    Niles is a historic former town in California, now a district of Fremont, known for its early silent film industry and railroad heritage.
  • 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: Newcomb
Triple: [Simon Newcomb, familyName, Newcomb]
Generated description
Newcomb is a surname most notably associated with Simon Newcomb, a 19th-century Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Newcomb
Target entity description: Newcomb is a surname most notably associated with Simon Newcomb, a 19th-century Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician.
  • A. Livermore
    Livermore is a city in California’s Tri-Valley region known for its wine country, historic downtown, and proximity to major scientific research facilities.
  • B. Dixon
    Dixon is a small agricultural city in Northern California known historically for sheep ranching and its annual May Fair.
  • C. Dunlap
    Dunlap is a minor character in the play "Inherit the Wind," appearing as one of the townspeople involved in the trial’s tense, small-town atmosphere.
  • D. Seymour
    Seymour is a small unincorporated community and suburban area in eastern Tennessee, situated near Knoxville in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.
  • E. Niles
    Niles is a historic former town in California, now a district of Fremont, known for its early silent film industry and railroad heritage.
  • 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_69a496d25d6881909dbd84f86d763992 completed March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c5bb4e288190997c7e8985e9a2bd completed March 1, 2026, 11:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad0e7c8a608190b3ca574c118e89b5 completed March 8, 2026, 5:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad0f462d708190afa0c2df1e043946 completed March 8, 2026, 5:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad0fb331e881908455844135bb3208 completed March 8, 2026, 5:57 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:01 p.m.