Triple
T21322268
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | NGC 4477 |
E525647
|
entity |
| Predicate | discoveredBy |
P412
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Herschel |
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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: William Herschel | Statement: [NGC 4477, discoveredBy, William Herschel]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Herschel Context triple: [NGC 4477, discoveredBy, William Herschel]
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A.
William Herschel
chosen
William Herschel was an 18th-century British-German astronomer and composer best known for discovering the planet Uranus and pioneering deep-sky surveys of the night sky.
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B.
Royal Astronomer Nevil Maskelyne
Nevil Maskelyne was an 18th-century British Astronomer Royal renowned for improving navigation at sea through his work on lunar distance methods and the publication of the Nautical Almanac.
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C.
Friedrich Bessel
Friedrich Bessel was a German astronomer and mathematician renowned for his precise measurements of stellar positions and distances, including the first reliable determination of a star’s parallax.
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D.
John Horrocks (astronomer)
John Horrocks was a 17th-century English astronomer and mathematician noted for his early observation of a transit of Venus and his contributions to improving astronomical measurements.
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E.
Georg de Lalande
Georg de Lalande was a German architect active in the early 20th century, known for designing prominent public and governmental buildings in East Asia.
- 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_69e0b51ad810819098c12392c8e55f6c |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e77ed2640c8190a81b087e2c49c500 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 1:42 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 4:40 p.m.