Triple

T19558476
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Vesto Melvin Slipher E489378 entity
Predicate name P16 FINISHED
Object Vesto Melvin Slipher — 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: Vesto Melvin Slipher | Statement: [Vesto Melvin Slipher, name, Vesto Melvin Slipher]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Vesto Melvin Slipher
Context triple: [Vesto Melvin Slipher, name, Vesto Melvin Slipher]
  • A. Vesto Melvin Slipher chosen
    Vesto Melvin Slipher was an American astronomer best known for his pioneering measurements of galaxy redshifts, which provided early evidence for the expansion of the universe.
  • B. Heber Doust Curtis
    Heber Doust Curtis was an American astronomer best known for his role in the 1920 "Great Debate" over the nature of spiral nebulae and the scale of the universe.
  • C. Milton Humason
    Milton Humason was an American astronomer who, despite lacking formal education, became a key collaborator of Edwin Hubble and made crucial spectroscopic observations that helped establish the evidence for the expanding universe.
  • 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. George Ellery Hale
    George Ellery Hale was an influential American solar astronomer and observatory builder who pioneered modern astrophysics and led the creation of several of the world’s largest telescopes.
  • 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_69d8e8dc5d8c8190a6d7bd8864f43ca0 completed April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e63f723d5081909553a4363b579a6b completed April 20, 2026, 3 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:42 p.m.