Triple

T3588054
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Royal Astronomical Society E75958 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Francis Baily
Francis Baily was a prominent 19th-century English astronomer best known for his detailed observations of solar eclipses, including the phenomenon now called "Baily's beads."
E372824 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 Baily | Statement: [Royal Astronomical Society, foundedBy, Francis Baily]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Francis Baily
Context triple: [Royal Astronomical Society, foundedBy, Francis Baily]
  • A. Norman Robert Pogson
    Norman Robert Pogson was a 19th-century English astronomer best known for defining the modern stellar magnitude scale and for his extensive observations and discoveries of asteroids and variable stars.
  • B. William Lassell
    William Lassell was a 19th-century English astronomer renowned for his telescopic discoveries of several moons of the outer planets, including Neptune's moon Triton and Uranus's moon Ariel.
  • C. Edward Hodges Baily
    Edward Hodges Baily was a prominent 19th-century English sculptor best known for his neoclassical works and major public monuments in London.
  • D. William Marsden
    William Marsden was a prominent 19th-century British surgeon and medical philanthropist who founded both the Royal Free Hospital and the Royal Marsden Hospital in London.
  • E. Sir George Airy
    Sir George Airy was a 19th-century British astronomer and Astronomer Royal renowned for his influential work in celestial mechanics, geodesy, and timekeeping.
  • 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 Baily
Triple: [Royal Astronomical Society, foundedBy, Francis Baily]
Generated description
Francis Baily was a prominent 19th-century English astronomer best known for his detailed observations of solar eclipses, including the phenomenon now called "Baily's beads."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Francis Baily
Target entity description: Francis Baily was a prominent 19th-century English astronomer best known for his detailed observations of solar eclipses, including the phenomenon now called "Baily's beads."
  • A. Norman Robert Pogson
    Norman Robert Pogson was a 19th-century English astronomer best known for defining the modern stellar magnitude scale and for his extensive observations and discoveries of asteroids and variable stars.
  • B. William Lassell
    William Lassell was a 19th-century English astronomer renowned for his telescopic discoveries of several moons of the outer planets, including Neptune's moon Triton and Uranus's moon Ariel.
  • C. Edward Hodges Baily
    Edward Hodges Baily was a prominent 19th-century English sculptor best known for his neoclassical works and major public monuments in London.
  • D. William Marsden
    William Marsden was a prominent 19th-century British surgeon and medical philanthropist who founded both the Royal Free Hospital and the Royal Marsden Hospital in London.
  • E. Sir George Airy
    Sir George Airy was a 19th-century British astronomer and Astronomer Royal renowned for his influential work in celestial mechanics, geodesy, and timekeeping.
  • 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_69ad85d6dc3c8190b491b79b83e25461 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc13a11608190a23d76efc1b50e3c completed March 8, 2026, 6:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b43305b21081909d7f78dac96ceaa8 completed March 13, 2026, 3:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b433858d68819094cf23a3da0cf711 completed March 13, 2026, 3:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b433db00188190b004a791cd25baf8 completed March 13, 2026, 3:57 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:22 p.m.