Triple
T21762320
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Rudolph Snellius |
E537192
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entity |
| Predicate | notableStudent |
P4838
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FINISHED |
| Object | Willebrord Snellius |
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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: Willebrord Snellius | Statement: [Rudolph Snellius, notableStudent, Willebrord Snellius]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Willebrord Snellius Context triple: [Rudolph Snellius, notableStudent, Willebrord Snellius]
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A.
Willebrord Snellius
chosen
Willebrord Snellius was a Dutch mathematician and astronomer best known for formulating the law that describes how light bends when passing between different media.
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B.
Gemma Frisius
Gemma Frisius was a 16th-century Dutch mathematician, cartographer, and instrument maker known for his pioneering work in triangulation and contributions to early modern geography.
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C.
Maurits Huygens
Maurits Huygens was a Dutch poet and government official of the Dutch Republic, known primarily as the brother of the more famous poet and diplomat Constantijn Huygens.
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D.
Eise Eisinga
Eise Eisinga was an 18th-century Dutch amateur astronomer and wool carder best known for building the world’s oldest working mechanical planetarium in his living room in Franeker, the Netherlands.
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E.
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens was a 17th-century Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer known for his work on the wave theory of light, the invention of the pendulum clock, and the discovery of Saturn’s moon Titan.
- 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_69e0c46f5d1c8190bf830409e98464e5 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f01d9369f88190b4be11b82fe75a17 |
completed | April 28, 2026, 2:38 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:51 p.m.