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]
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.