Triple

T3253884
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Astronomer Royal E68251 entity
Predicate hasTitleHolder P1911 FINISHED
Object Nevil Maskelyne
Nevil Maskelyne was an 18th-century British astronomer best known for improving navigation at sea through his work on the Nautical Almanac and for conducting the famous Schiehallion experiment to measure Earth's density.
E342407 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: Nevil Maskelyne | Statement: [Astronomer Royal, hasTitleHolder, Nevil Maskelyne]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nevil Maskelyne
Context triple: [Astronomer Royal, hasTitleHolder, Nevil Maskelyne]
  • A. Dr Vesey Stanhope
    Dr Vesey Stanhope is a worldly, indolent clergyman and patriarch of a troublesome family in Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire novels, most notably in "Barchester Towers."
  • B. William Marsden
    William Marsden was a prominent 19th-century British surgeon and medical philanthropist who founded both the Royal Free Hospital and the Royal Marsden Hospital in London.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Sir George Airy
    Sir George Airy was a 19th-century British astronomer and Astronomer Royal renowned for his influential work in celestial mechanics, geodesy, and timekeeping.
  • E. J. G. Jeffreys
    J. G. Jeffreys was a British educator best known for establishing the progressive independent Bryanston School in Dorset in the early 20th century.
  • 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: Nevil Maskelyne
Triple: [Astronomer Royal, hasTitleHolder, Nevil Maskelyne]
Generated description
Nevil Maskelyne was an 18th-century British astronomer best known for improving navigation at sea through his work on the Nautical Almanac and for conducting the famous Schiehallion experiment to measure Earth's density.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nevil Maskelyne
Target entity description: Nevil Maskelyne was an 18th-century British astronomer best known for improving navigation at sea through his work on the Nautical Almanac and for conducting the famous Schiehallion experiment to measure Earth's density.
  • A. Dr Vesey Stanhope
    Dr Vesey Stanhope is a worldly, indolent clergyman and patriarch of a troublesome family in Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire novels, most notably in "Barchester Towers."
  • B. William Marsden
    William Marsden was a prominent 19th-century British surgeon and medical philanthropist who founded both the Royal Free Hospital and the Royal Marsden Hospital in London.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Sir George Airy
    Sir George Airy was a 19th-century British astronomer and Astronomer Royal renowned for his influential work in celestial mechanics, geodesy, and timekeeping.
  • E. J. G. Jeffreys
    J. G. Jeffreys was a British educator best known for establishing the progressive independent Bryanston School in Dorset in the early 20th century.
  • 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_69ad858f74408190bcbd07f967cd7bd0 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adaf640fd8819083c3c0cc41db2ffc completed March 8, 2026, 5:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b28ec9553881908ee96b8684934914 completed March 12, 2026, 10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b28f9e12488190b93355b783300264 completed March 12, 2026, 10:04 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b2c092063481909982dea3f71c00c1 completed March 12, 2026, 1:33 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:09 p.m.