Triple

T3253919
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Astronomer Royal E68251 entity
Predicate hasTitleHolder P1911 FINISHED
Object Francis Graham-Smith
Francis Graham-Smith is a British astronomer noted for his work in radio astronomy and for serving as the Astronomer Royal.
E396399 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: Francis Graham-Smith | Statement: [Astronomer Royal, hasTitleHolder, Francis Graham-Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Francis Graham-Smith
Context triple: [Astronomer Royal, hasTitleHolder, Francis Graham-Smith]
  • A. Francis Wenham
    Francis Wenham was a 19th-century British engineer and early aeronautical pioneer who played a key role in the development of aviation theory and institutions.
  • B. Alastair Grahame
    Alastair Grahame was the only son of British author Kenneth Grahame, whose troubled life and early death are often linked to the darker undercurrents in his father's classic work "The Wind in the Willows."
  • C. Alan Lennox-Boyd
    Alan Lennox-Boyd was a British Conservative politician best known for serving as Colonial Secretary during the 1950s, overseeing key stages of decolonisation in the British Empire.
  • D. Claude Auchinleck
    Claude Auchinleck was a senior British Army officer and field marshal best known for his leadership of Allied forces in the Middle East during the early stages of World War II.
  • E. Claude Erskine-Brown
    Claude Erskine-Brown is a fictional, somewhat pompous and ambitious barrister from John Mortimer’s "Rumpole of the Bailey" series, known for his classical pretensions and frequent clashes with the more down-to-earth Horace Rumpole.
  • 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: Francis Graham-Smith
Triple: [Astronomer Royal, hasTitleHolder, Francis Graham-Smith]
Generated description
Francis Graham-Smith is a British astronomer noted for his work in radio astronomy and for serving as the Astronomer Royal.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Francis Graham-Smith
Target entity description: Francis Graham-Smith is a British astronomer noted for his work in radio astronomy and for serving as the Astronomer Royal.
  • A. Francis Wenham
    Francis Wenham was a 19th-century British engineer and early aeronautical pioneer who played a key role in the development of aviation theory and institutions.
  • B. Alastair Grahame
    Alastair Grahame was the only son of British author Kenneth Grahame, whose troubled life and early death are often linked to the darker undercurrents in his father's classic work "The Wind in the Willows."
  • C. Alan Lennox-Boyd
    Alan Lennox-Boyd was a British Conservative politician best known for serving as Colonial Secretary during the 1950s, overseeing key stages of decolonisation in the British Empire.
  • D. Claude Auchinleck
    Claude Auchinleck was a senior British Army officer and field marshal best known for his leadership of Allied forces in the Middle East during the early stages of World War II.
  • E. Claude Erskine-Brown
    Claude Erskine-Brown is a fictional, somewhat pompous and ambitious barrister from John Mortimer’s "Rumpole of the Bailey" series, known for his classical pretensions and frequent clashes with the more down-to-earth Horace Rumpole.
  • 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_69b51c5ab7988190882df3b8198ad88a completed March 14, 2026, 8:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b51cea26bc81909ad5940952dd28e9 completed March 14, 2026, 8:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b51d53040881908a943534dcde26bc completed March 14, 2026, 8:33 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:09 p.m.