Triple

T19831210
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Louis Emil Dreyer E476464 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object John — NE NERFINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: John | Statement: [John Louis Emil Dreyer, givenName, John]

Disambiguation candidates (2 decisions)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John
Context triple: [John Louis Emil Dreyer, givenName, John]
  • A. John
    John is the given first name of Johnny Kilbane, an American featherweight boxing champion from the early 20th century.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, a British aristocrat and 10th Duke of Marlborough.
  • C. John
    John is the middle name of Samuel John Mills, an American Congregationalist minister known for his role in early 19th-century missionary movements.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of the English jurist and scholar John Selden, a prominent 17th-century authority on law and constitutional history.
  • E. John
    John is the given first name of Australian actor Chips Rafferty, a prominent figure in mid-20th-century Australian cinema.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John
Target entity description: John is the given name of John Louis Emil Dreyer, the Danish-Irish astronomer best known for compiling the New General Catalogue (NGC) of deep-sky objects.
  • A. John
    John is the given name of John Goodricke, an 18th-century English astronomer known for his pioneering work on variable stars.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John Couch Adams, the 19th-century English mathematician and astronomer who co-predicted the existence and position of the planet Neptune.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John Dee, the 16th-century English mathematician, astronomer, and advisor to Queen Elizabeth I known for his work in alchemy and the occult.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of John Thomas Romney Robinson, a 19th-century Irish astronomer and physicist known for his work on stellar magnitudes and the Robinson anemometer.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Graunt, a 17th-century English statistician and demographer known for pioneering work in population statistics.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d8e51c7c188190b926f3a2a7b5f881 elicitation completed
NER batch_69e656ce68b48190aa25b29d0b6ea021 ner completed
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:50 p.m.