Triple

T3253909
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Astronomer Royal E68251 entity
Predicate hasTitleHolder P1911 FINISHED
Object Richard Woolley
Richard Woolley was a prominent British astronomer who served as Astronomer Royal in the mid-20th century, overseeing major developments in UK observational astronomy.
 E342410 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: Richard Woolley | Statement: [Astronomer Royal, hasTitleHolder, Richard Woolley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard Woolley
Context triple: [Astronomer Royal, hasTitleHolder, Richard Woolley]
  • A. Arthur Evans
    Arthur Evans was a British archaeologist best known for excavating the Minoan palace at Knossos and pioneering the study of Aegean Bronze Age civilizations.
  • B. Robert Hinde
    Robert Hinde was a British zoologist and ethologist renowned for his pioneering research on animal behavior and social relationships, and for mentoring influential primatologists such as Jane Goodall.
  • C. Herbert James Rowse
    Herbert James Rowse was a prominent 20th-century British architect and designer known for his major civic and commercial buildings, particularly in Liverpool.
  • D. Philip Sherrard
    Philip Sherrard was a British scholar, theologian, and translator best known for his influential English translations of Eastern Orthodox spiritual and theological texts.
  • E. Leonard Woolley
    Leonard Woolley was a pioneering British archaeologist best known for his extensive excavations at the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur 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: Richard Woolley
Triple: [Astronomer Royal, hasTitleHolder, Richard Woolley]
Generated description
Richard Woolley was a prominent British astronomer who served as Astronomer Royal in the mid-20th century, overseeing major developments in UK observational astronomy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard Woolley
Target entity description: Richard Woolley was a prominent British astronomer who served as Astronomer Royal in the mid-20th century, overseeing major developments in UK observational astronomy.
  • A. Arthur Evans
    Arthur Evans was a British archaeologist best known for excavating the Minoan palace at Knossos and pioneering the study of Aegean Bronze Age civilizations.
  • B. Robert Hinde
    Robert Hinde was a British zoologist and ethologist renowned for his pioneering research on animal behavior and social relationships, and for mentoring influential primatologists such as Jane Goodall.
  • C. Herbert James Rowse
    Herbert James Rowse was a prominent 20th-century British architect and designer known for his major civic and commercial buildings, particularly in Liverpool.
  • D. Philip Sherrard
    Philip Sherrard was a British scholar, theologian, and translator best known for his influential English translations of Eastern Orthodox spiritual and theological texts.
  • E. Leonard Woolley
    Leonard Woolley was a pioneering British archaeologist best known for his extensive excavations at the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur 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.