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]
  • 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
  • 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.