Triple

T3359268
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lalande Prize E70679 entity
Predicate hasNotableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Wilhelm Tempel
Wilhelm Tempel was a 19th-century German astronomer best known for discovering several comets and asteroids despite having no formal scientific education.
 E351930 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: Wilhelm Tempel | Statement: [Lalande Prize, hasNotableRecipient, Wilhelm Tempel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Wilhelm Tempel
Context triple: [Lalande Prize, hasNotableRecipient, Wilhelm Tempel]
  • A. Johann Galle
    Johann Galle was a 19th-century German astronomer best known for making the first observational confirmation of the planet Neptune.
  • B. Anton von Zach
    Anton von Zach was an Austrian general and staff officer best known for his role in the Napoleonic Wars, particularly during the Italian campaigns.
  • C. Wilhelm Keppler
    Wilhelm Keppler was a German industrialist and early economic adviser to Adolf Hitler who became a prominent Nazi official involved in the regime’s economic and industrial policies.
  • D. James Edward Keeler
    James Edward Keeler was an American astronomer noted for his pioneering spectroscopic studies of Saturn’s rings and for his influential role in late 19th-century astrophysical research.
  • E. Clyde Tombaugh
    Clyde Tombaugh was an American astronomer best known for discovering the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930.
  • 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: Wilhelm Tempel
Triple: [Lalande Prize, hasNotableRecipient, Wilhelm Tempel]
Generated description
Wilhelm Tempel was a 19th-century German astronomer best known for discovering several comets and asteroids despite having no formal scientific education.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Wilhelm Tempel
Target entity description: Wilhelm Tempel was a 19th-century German astronomer best known for discovering several comets and asteroids despite having no formal scientific education.
  • A. Johann Galle
    Johann Galle was a 19th-century German astronomer best known for making the first observational confirmation of the planet Neptune.
  • B. Anton von Zach
    Anton von Zach was an Austrian general and staff officer best known for his role in the Napoleonic Wars, particularly during the Italian campaigns.
  • C. Wilhelm Keppler
    Wilhelm Keppler was a German industrialist and early economic adviser to Adolf Hitler who became a prominent Nazi official involved in the regime’s economic and industrial policies.
  • D. James Edward Keeler
    James Edward Keeler was an American astronomer noted for his pioneering spectroscopic studies of Saturn’s rings and for his influential role in late 19th-century astrophysical research.
  • E. Clyde Tombaugh
    Clyde Tombaugh was an American astronomer best known for discovering the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930.
  • 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_69ad85a660c48190998489309a3b4869 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb266c4a881908aded39ccb8f43b2 completed March 8, 2026, 5:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b32541ed808190aa7be7d0b7606426 completed March 12, 2026, 8:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b3293d4b688190be472a5a3b56293b completed March 12, 2026, 8:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b32a49fed0819094ffd1e93a3757d0 completed March 12, 2026, 9:04 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:13 p.m.