Triple
T3253904
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Astronomer Royal |
E68251
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasTitleHolder |
P1911
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Harold Spencer Jones
Harold Spencer Jones was a prominent 20th-century British astronomer who served as the last Astronomer Royal to be responsible for the Royal Greenwich Observatory and made significant contributions to positional astronomy and the determination of the astronomical unit.
|
E347417
|
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: Harold Spencer Jones | Statement: [Astronomer Royal, hasTitleHolder, Harold Spencer Jones]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harold Spencer Jones Context triple: [Astronomer Royal, hasTitleHolder, Harold Spencer Jones]
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A.
Frank Watson Dyson
Frank Watson Dyson was a prominent British astronomer best known for his role in organizing the 1919 solar eclipse expeditions that provided one of the first major confirmations of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
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B.
Robert Hanbury Brown
Robert Hanbury Brown was a British physicist and radio astronomer best known for pioneering intensity interferometry, which led to the Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect and advanced the measurement of stellar diameters.
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C.
Percy William Pickering
Percy William Pickering was the father of the British Pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn De Morgan.
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D.
G. H. Shortley
G. H. Shortley was a physicist best known for coauthoring the influential quantum mechanics textbook "The Theory of Atomic Spectra" with Edward Condon.
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E.
Ralph Fowler
Ralph Fowler was a prominent British theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his influential work in statistical mechanics and quantum theory, as well as for mentoring leading physicists of the 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: Harold Spencer Jones Triple: [Astronomer Royal, hasTitleHolder, Harold Spencer Jones]
Generated description
Harold Spencer Jones was a prominent 20th-century British astronomer who served as the last Astronomer Royal to be responsible for the Royal Greenwich Observatory and made significant contributions to positional astronomy and the determination of the astronomical unit.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harold Spencer Jones Target entity description: Harold Spencer Jones was a prominent 20th-century British astronomer who served as the last Astronomer Royal to be responsible for the Royal Greenwich Observatory and made significant contributions to positional astronomy and the determination of the astronomical unit.
-
A.
Frank Watson Dyson
Frank Watson Dyson was a prominent British astronomer best known for his role in organizing the 1919 solar eclipse expeditions that provided one of the first major confirmations of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
-
B.
Robert Hanbury Brown
Robert Hanbury Brown was a British physicist and radio astronomer best known for pioneering intensity interferometry, which led to the Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect and advanced the measurement of stellar diameters.
-
C.
Percy William Pickering
Percy William Pickering was the father of the British Pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn De Morgan.
-
D.
G. H. Shortley
G. H. Shortley was a physicist best known for coauthoring the influential quantum mechanics textbook "The Theory of Atomic Spectra" with Edward Condon.
-
E.
Ralph Fowler
Ralph Fowler was a prominent British theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his influential work in statistical mechanics and quantum theory, as well as for mentoring leading physicists of the 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_69b2f3c18ac481909bfeb553de1d2a55 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 5:11 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b2f9ec098c8190aaa763d7b9c5cceb |
completed | March 12, 2026, 5:37 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b316408090819090a4792b3d5185f0 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 7:38 p.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:09 p.m.