Triple

T17226795
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject WMAP Team E418134 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object David Todd Wilkinson (via WMAP spacecraft name)
David Todd Wilkinson was an influential American cosmologist and Princeton University physicist whose pioneering work in measuring the cosmic microwave background radiation helped lay the foundations for modern observational cosmology.
E418613 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: David Todd Wilkinson (via WMAP spacecraft name) | Statement: [WMAP Team, namedAfter, David Todd Wilkinson (via WMAP spacecraft name)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Todd Wilkinson (via WMAP spacecraft name)
Context triple: [WMAP Team, namedAfter, David Todd Wilkinson (via WMAP spacecraft name)]
  • A. WMAP Team
    The WMAP Team is the group of scientists behind the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe mission, which precisely mapped the cosmic microwave background and revolutionized our understanding of the universe’s age, composition, and development.
  • B. WMAP
    WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) was a NASA space observatory that precisely mapped the cosmic microwave background radiation, revolutionizing our understanding of the universe’s age, composition, and development.
  • C. George F. Smoot
    George F. Smoot is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist best known for his Nobel Prize–winning work on cosmic microwave background radiation, which provided strong evidence for the Big Bang theory.
  • D. John C. Mather
    John C. Mather is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist, Nobel Prize laureate, and a leading scientist behind NASA’s Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) mission that helped confirm the Big Bang theory.
  • E. Planck spacecraft
    The Planck spacecraft was a European Space Agency space observatory designed to study the cosmic microwave background radiation with unprecedented precision to improve our understanding of the early universe and cosmology.
  • 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: David Todd Wilkinson (via WMAP spacecraft name)
Triple: [WMAP Team, namedAfter, David Todd Wilkinson (via WMAP spacecraft name)]
Generated description
David Todd Wilkinson was an influential American cosmologist and Princeton University physicist whose pioneering work in measuring the cosmic microwave background radiation helped lay the foundations for modern observational cosmology.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Todd Wilkinson (via WMAP spacecraft name)
Target entity description: David Todd Wilkinson was an influential American cosmologist and Princeton University physicist whose pioneering work in measuring the cosmic microwave background radiation helped lay the foundations for modern observational cosmology.
  • A. WMAP Team
    The WMAP Team is the group of scientists behind the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe mission, which precisely mapped the cosmic microwave background and revolutionized our understanding of the universe’s age, composition, and development.
  • B. WMAP chosen
    WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) was a NASA space observatory that precisely mapped the cosmic microwave background radiation, revolutionizing our understanding of the universe’s age, composition, and development.
  • C. George F. Smoot
    George F. Smoot is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist best known for his Nobel Prize–winning work on cosmic microwave background radiation, which provided strong evidence for the Big Bang theory.
  • D. John C. Mather
    John C. Mather is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist, Nobel Prize laureate, and a leading scientist behind NASA’s Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) mission that helped confirm the Big Bang theory.
  • E. Planck spacecraft
    The Planck spacecraft was a European Space Agency space observatory designed to study the cosmic microwave background radiation with unprecedented precision to improve our understanding of the early universe and cosmology.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d886d779488190b131369541c04e7d completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e42de1674c81909ca9e87fa9153640 completed April 19, 2026, 1:20 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01675cc70881909cf39b2e229f5d1e completed May 11, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a016a5f58408190b42a8da742aa2f5b completed May 11, 2026, 5:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a016b0e72588190b1ba2b45f0425d3d completed May 11, 2026, 5:37 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:39 a.m.