Triple

T21920724
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harvard Computers program E541302 entity
Predicate supervisedBy P86 FINISHED
Object Edward Charles Pickering — 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: Edward Charles Pickering | Statement: [Harvard Computers program, supervisedBy, Edward Charles Pickering]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Edward Charles Pickering
Context triple: [Harvard Computers program, supervisedBy, Edward Charles Pickering]
  • A. Edward Charles Pickering chosen
    Edward Charles Pickering was a pioneering American astronomer and longtime director of the Harvard College Observatory, known for his major contributions to stellar spectroscopy and the classification of stars.
  • B. George Willis Ritchey
    George Willis Ritchey was an American optician and telescope designer renowned for pioneering advanced reflecting telescope technologies in the early 20th century.
  • C. James Edward Keeler
    James Edward Keeler was an American astronomer noted for his pioneering spectroscopic studies of Saturn’s rings and for his influential role in late 19th-century astrophysical research.
  • D. Edward Emerson Barnard
    Edward Emerson Barnard was an American astronomer renowned for his discoveries of comets, dark nebulae, and the high proper-motion star now known as Barnard's Star.
  • E. Walter Adams
    Walter Adams is a fictional character appearing in the 1935 American drama film "Alice Adams," adapted from Booth Tarkington's novel.
  • 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_69e0c47c4b9c8190a5586a75f5f36453 completed April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1233af5a481908072c7c928e065ad completed April 28, 2026, 9:14 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 7:44 p.m.