Triple

T2272259
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gerhard Herzberg E50685 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Yerkes Observatory E17797 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: Yerkes Observatory | Statement: [Gerhard Herzberg, employer, Yerkes Observatory]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yerkes Observatory
Context triple: [Gerhard Herzberg, employer, Yerkes Observatory]
  • A. Yerkes Observatory chosen
    Yerkes Observatory is a historic astronomical observatory in Wisconsin renowned for housing one of the world’s largest refracting telescopes and for its influential role in 20th-century astrophysical research.
  • B. Lowell Observatory
    Lowell Observatory is a historic astronomical research institution in Flagstaff, Arizona, renowned for its role in major discoveries including the identification of Pluto.
  • C. Lick Observatory
    Lick Observatory is a historic astronomical observatory located on Mount Hamilton in California, known for its pioneering research and large refracting telescope.
  • D. Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory
    The Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory is a major astronomical research facility in Arizona known for its optical and gamma-ray telescopes used to study the universe.
  • E. Mount Wilson Observatory
    Mount Wilson Observatory is a historic astronomical observatory in California renowned for its early 20th-century telescopes and pioneering contributions to stellar and galactic astronomy.
  • 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_69a88b05910c8190a9a2b1ff230c85f9 completed March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc1e872448190a1d6c6071b2a294b completed March 7, 2026, 6:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae71db927c8190a76cfb873039b04b completed March 9, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:48 p.m.