Triple

T3445374
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sasha Sagan E72663 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Sagan
Sagan is a surname most famously associated with astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan and his family.
 E359976 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: Sagan | Statement: [Sasha Sagan, familyName, Sagan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sagan
Context triple: [Sasha Sagan, familyName, Sagan]
  • A. Sagan
    Sagan is a town in present-day Żagań, Poland, historically known as a center where the astronomer Johannes Kepler conducted part of his scientific work.
  • B. Niven
    Niven is a Scottish-origin surname most famously associated with the English actor David Niven.
  • C. Bardeen
    Bardeen is a surname most notably associated with John Bardeen, the American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
  • D. Sandage
    Sandage is a surname most notably associated with Allan R. Sandage, a prominent American astronomer known for his work on the expansion rate and age of the universe.
  • E. Peleiades
    The Peleiades were the sacred priestesses of the ancient Greek oracle at Dodona, believed to interpret the will of Zeus through the rustling of oak leaves and other natural signs.
  • 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: Sagan
Triple: [Sasha Sagan, familyName, Sagan]
Generated description
Sagan is a surname most famously associated with astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan and his family.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sagan
Target entity description: Sagan is a surname most famously associated with astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan and his family.
  • A. Sagan
    Sagan is a town in present-day Żagań, Poland, historically known as a center where the astronomer Johannes Kepler conducted part of his scientific work.
  • B. Niven
    Niven is a Scottish-origin surname most famously associated with the English actor David Niven.
  • C. Bardeen
    Bardeen is a surname most notably associated with John Bardeen, the American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
  • D. Sandage
    Sandage is a surname most notably associated with Allan R. Sandage, a prominent American astronomer known for his work on the expansion rate and age of the universe.
  • E. Peleiades
    The Peleiades were the sacred priestesses of the ancient Greek oracle at Dodona, believed to interpret the will of Zeus through the rustling of oak leaves and other natural signs.
  • 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_69ad85b05c848190b7a28ceec2bd7b74 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adba2cc3048190ab1385699387df8d completed March 8, 2026, 6:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b360deda448190a63a39688be2dbfb completed March 13, 2026, 12:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b3618726b08190905a2c93335eede2 completed March 13, 2026, 12:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b362586a008190b0d54e5cb38845e3 completed March 13, 2026, 1:03 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:16 p.m.