Triple
T21333396
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | NGC 4486 |
E525970
|
entity |
| Predicate | jetDiscoveredBy |
P113006
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Heber Curtis |
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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: Heber Curtis | Statement: [NGC 4486, jetDiscoveredBy, Heber Curtis]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Heber Curtis Context triple: [NGC 4486, jetDiscoveredBy, Heber Curtis]
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A.
Heber Doust Curtis
chosen
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.
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B.
Vesto Melvin Slipher
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.
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C.
Bart Bok
Bart Bok was a Dutch-American astronomer renowned for his work on the structure of the Milky Way and the study of dark Bok globules in interstellar space.
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D.
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.
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E.
A. S. Abell
A. S. Abell was an American publisher best known as the founder of the Baltimore Sun newspaper.
- 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_69e0b51b90788190a4dd823d962626da |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e898d42d148190b2b067ff82a9e2e6 |
completed | April 22, 2026, 9:45 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 4:43 p.m.