Triple
T2151697
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Spitzer Space Telescope |
E47794
|
entity |
| Predicate | renamedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Lyman Spitzer Jr. |
E53707
|
NE FINISHED |
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: Lyman Spitzer Jr. | Statement: [Spitzer Space Telescope, renamedAfter, Lyman Spitzer Jr.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lyman Spitzer Jr. Context triple: [Spitzer Space Telescope, renamedAfter, Lyman Spitzer Jr.]
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A.
Lyman Spitzer Jr.
chosen
Lyman Spitzer Jr. was an influential American astrophysicist best known for his pioneering work on interstellar matter and for conceiving and advocating the development of space-based telescopes, including what became the Hubble Space Telescope.
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B.
Robert F. Christy
Robert F. Christy was a Canadian-American theoretical physicist best known for his key role in the Manhattan Project, including designing the "Christy pit" core used in the Trinity test and the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
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C.
Robert H. Dicke
Robert H. Dicke was an influential American physicist known for his pioneering work in gravitation, cosmology, and microwave physics, including contributions that helped establish the Big Bang theory.
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D.
John C. Mather
John C. Mather is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist, Nobel Prize laureate, and a leading scientist behind NASA’s Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) mission that helped confirm the Big Bang theory.
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E.
James A. Van Allen
James A. Van Allen was an American space scientist best known for discovering the Earth's radiation belts, now called the Van Allen belts, and for his pioneering work in early space exploration missions.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a88a1d1fd8819088b34990d69a712f |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:38 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abbe4747a0819080e2234f3ea8995f |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:57 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ae5d940bec8190998ef88ed44e5811 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 5:41 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:44 p.m.