Triple

T15531222
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hermann Carl Vogel E370220 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object William Huggins
William Huggins was a pioneering 19th-century English astronomer best known for applying spectroscopy to study the composition and motion of stars and nebulae.
E1162598 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: William Huggins | Statement: [Hermann Carl Vogel, influencedBy, William Huggins]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Huggins
Context triple: [Hermann Carl Vogel, influencedBy, William Huggins]
  • A. Norman Lockyer
    Norman Lockyer was a British astronomer and science communicator best known for co-discovering the element helium in the solar spectrum and for founding the journal Nature.
  • B. 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.
  • C. William Lassell
    William Lassell was a 19th-century English astronomer renowned for his telescopic discoveries of several moons of the outer planets, including Neptune's moon Triton and Uranus's moon Ariel.
  • D. Edward Charles Pickering
    Edward Charles Pickering was a pioneering American astronomer and longtime director of the Harvard College Observatory, known for his major contributions to stellar spectroscopy and the classification of stars.
  • E. Isaac Roberts
    Isaac Roberts was a pioneering 19th-century British amateur astronomer and astrophotographer known for his early deep-sky photographs that significantly advanced astronomical imaging.
  • 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: William Huggins
Triple: [Hermann Carl Vogel, influencedBy, William Huggins]
Generated description
William Huggins was a pioneering 19th-century English astronomer best known for applying spectroscopy to study the composition and motion of stars and nebulae.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Huggins
Target entity description: William Huggins was a pioneering 19th-century English astronomer best known for applying spectroscopy to study the composition and motion of stars and nebulae.
  • A. Norman Lockyer
    Norman Lockyer was a British astronomer and science communicator best known for co-discovering the element helium in the solar spectrum and for founding the journal Nature.
  • B. 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.
  • C. William Lassell
    William Lassell was a 19th-century English astronomer renowned for his telescopic discoveries of several moons of the outer planets, including Neptune's moon Triton and Uranus's moon Ariel.
  • D. Edward Charles Pickering
    Edward Charles Pickering was a pioneering American astronomer and longtime director of the Harvard College Observatory, known for his major contributions to stellar spectroscopy and the classification of stars.
  • E. Isaac Roberts
    Isaac Roberts was a pioneering 19th-century British amateur astronomer and astrophotographer known for his early deep-sky photographs that significantly advanced astronomical imaging.
  • 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_69d85cc521a08190921fb50319dddc34 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e0414773548190b3311515f9d957dd completed April 16, 2026, 1:54 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff3d5b989c8190a76612df167ba1dd completed May 9, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff3ea7d5ac81908bd1ee64de39dba7 completed May 9, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff413a68488190a6c8907e36a602dc completed May 9, 2026, 2:14 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:06 a.m.