Triple

T15725573
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hellenistic astronomy E381209 entity
Predicate hasNotableAstronomer P602 FINISHED
Object Hypsicles
Hypsicles was an ancient Hellenistic Greek astronomer and mathematician known for his work on the division of the zodiac and for contributions sometimes associated with the Book XIV of Euclid’s Elements.
E1179193 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: Hypsicles | Statement: [Hellenistic astronomy, hasNotableAstronomer, Hypsicles]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hypsicles
Context triple: [Hellenistic astronomy, hasNotableAstronomer, Hypsicles]
  • A. Geminus of Rhodes
    Geminus of Rhodes was a 1st-century BCE Greek astronomer and mathematician known for his influential introductory treatise on astronomy, the "Introduction to the Phenomena."
  • B. Theodotus of Chios
    Theodotus of Chios was a Greek rhetorician and tutor to Ptolemy XIII who became notorious for advising the execution of the exiled Roman general Pompey the Great in Egypt.
  • C. Appian of Alexandria
    Appian of Alexandria was a 2nd-century AD Greek historian and Roman official best known for his multi-volume work "Roman History," which chronicles Rome’s rise and its civil wars.
  • D. Eutocius of Ascalon
    Eutocius of Ascalon was a 6th-century Greek mathematician best known for his commentaries on the works of Archimedes and Apollonius, which helped preserve and transmit classical Greek mathematics.
  • E. Strato of Lampsacus
    Strato of Lampsacus was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Peripatetic school, known for his naturalistic explanations of the world and for succeeding Theophrastus as head of Aristotle’s Lyceum.
  • 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: Hypsicles
Triple: [Hellenistic astronomy, hasNotableAstronomer, Hypsicles]
Generated description
Hypsicles was an ancient Hellenistic Greek astronomer and mathematician known for his work on the division of the zodiac and for contributions sometimes associated with the Book XIV of Euclid’s Elements.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hypsicles
Target entity description: Hypsicles was an ancient Hellenistic Greek astronomer and mathematician known for his work on the division of the zodiac and for contributions sometimes associated with the Book XIV of Euclid’s Elements.
  • A. Geminus of Rhodes
    Geminus of Rhodes was a 1st-century BCE Greek astronomer and mathematician known for his influential introductory treatise on astronomy, the "Introduction to the Phenomena."
  • B. Theodotus of Chios
    Theodotus of Chios was a Greek rhetorician and tutor to Ptolemy XIII who became notorious for advising the execution of the exiled Roman general Pompey the Great in Egypt.
  • C. Appian of Alexandria
    Appian of Alexandria was a 2nd-century AD Greek historian and Roman official best known for his multi-volume work "Roman History," which chronicles Rome’s rise and its civil wars.
  • D. Eutocius of Ascalon
    Eutocius of Ascalon was a 6th-century Greek mathematician best known for his commentaries on the works of Archimedes and Apollonius, which helped preserve and transmit classical Greek mathematics.
  • E. Strato of Lampsacus
    Strato of Lampsacus was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Peripatetic school, known for his naturalistic explanations of the world and for succeeding Theophrastus as head of Aristotle’s Lyceum.
  • 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_69d86d9cdb648190bf3171be0bd7d872 completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04fb357a88190a92641c8a8c20573 completed April 16, 2026, 2:55 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff9981e0d081909617b5d686905d3a completed May 9, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff9d4c62f08190ae6f87946272177f completed May 9, 2026, 8:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff9dec2b988190878d7f59a638ecaa completed May 9, 2026, 8:49 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:46 a.m.