Triple

T2721306
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Southern Ring Nebula E60084 entity
Predicate discoveredBy P412 FINISHED
Object John Herschel
John Herschel was a 19th-century English astronomer, mathematician, and polymath known for his extensive cataloging of stars and nebulae and for making significant contributions to photography and the study of light.
E293603 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 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: John Herschel | Statement: [Southern Ring Nebula, discoveredBy, John Herschel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Herschel
Context triple: [Southern Ring Nebula, discoveredBy, John Herschel]
  • A. William Lassell
    William Lassell was a 19th-century English astronomer renowned for his telescopic discoveries of several moons of the outer planets, including Neptune's moon Triton and Uranus's moon Ariel.
  • B. William Cranch Bond
    William Cranch Bond was a 19th-century American astronomer and the first director of the Harvard College Observatory, noted for his pioneering observational work and several important celestial discoveries.
  • C. William Whewell
    William Whewell was a 19th-century English polymath, philosopher, and historian of science known for coining key scientific terms and shaping the philosophy of scientific method.
  • D. Henry Draper
    Henry Draper was a pioneering 19th-century American physician and astronomer renowned for his early work in astrophotography and stellar spectroscopy, which laid the groundwork for modern stellar classification.
  • E. John Playfair
    John Playfair was an 18th–19th century Scottish mathematician, physicist, and geologist best known for popularizing James Hutton’s geological theories and for Playfair’s axiom in geometry.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: John Herschel
Triple: [Southern Ring Nebula, discoveredBy, John Herschel]
Generated description
John Herschel was a 19th-century English astronomer, mathematician, and polymath known for his extensive cataloging of stars and nebulae and for making significant contributions to photography and the study of light.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Herschel
Target entity description: John Herschel was a 19th-century English astronomer, mathematician, and polymath known for his extensive cataloging of stars and nebulae and for making significant contributions to photography and the study of light.
  • A. William Lassell
    William Lassell was a 19th-century English astronomer renowned for his telescopic discoveries of several moons of the outer planets, including Neptune's moon Triton and Uranus's moon Ariel.
  • B. William Cranch Bond
    William Cranch Bond was a 19th-century American astronomer and the first director of the Harvard College Observatory, noted for his pioneering observational work and several important celestial discoveries.
  • C. William Whewell
    William Whewell was a 19th-century English polymath, philosopher, and historian of science known for coining key scientific terms and shaping the philosophy of scientific method.
  • D. Henry Draper
    Henry Draper was a pioneering 19th-century American physician and astronomer renowned for his early work in astrophotography and stellar spectroscopy, which laid the groundwork for modern stellar classification.
  • E. John Playfair
    John Playfair was an 18th–19th century Scottish mathematician, physicist, and geologist best known for popularizing James Hutton’s geological theories and for Playfair’s axiom in geometry.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 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_69ab4b746d248190958e052045c09255 completed March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdab1cb808190b0789c76bc9cb090 completed March 7, 2026, 7:58 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afb6914f70819099482893d026f34b completed March 10, 2026, 6:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afb726182081909570e4cb7a364e4d completed March 10, 2026, 6:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afb78f9d08819087d6f31fe1e4e61c completed March 10, 2026, 6:17 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:55 p.m.