Triple
T17589008
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Very Large Array |
E428395
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Karl G. Jansky |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Karl G. Jansky | Statement: [Very Large Array, namedAfter, Karl G. Jansky]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Karl G. Jansky Context triple: [Very Large Array, namedAfter, Karl G. Jansky]
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A.
Karl Guthe Jansky
chosen
Karl Guthe Jansky was an American physicist and radio engineer who pioneered radio astronomy by discovering radio waves emanating from the Milky Way.
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B.
Cyril M. Jansky
Cyril M. Jansky was an American electrical engineer and academic known for his contributions to radio engineering and for being part of a prominent scientific family that included radio astronomy pioneer Karl Guthe Jansky.
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C.
Grote Reber
Grote Reber was an American radio engineer and pioneering radio astronomer who built the first purpose-built radio telescope and helped establish radio astronomy as a scientific field.
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D.
Arno Penzias
Arno Penzias is a Nobel Prize–winning physicist best known for his co-discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which provided key evidence for the Big Bang theory.
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E.
Hendrik C. van de Hulst
Hendrik C. van de Hulst was a Dutch astronomer and physicist best known for predicting the 21-cm hydrogen line, which became a cornerstone of radio astronomy.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d889e1030481909950e140c63255b9 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e469e50a80819098920d9190c30225 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 5:36 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:51 a.m.