Triple

T4814357
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jan Oort E107149 entity
Predicate notableStudent P4838 FINISHED
Object Hendrik C. van de Hulst
Hendrik C. van de Hulst was a Dutch astronomer and physicist best known for predicting the 21-cm hydrogen line, which became a cornerstone of radio astronomy.
E475898 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: Hendrik C. van de Hulst | Statement: [Jan Oort, notableStudent, Hendrik C. van de Hulst]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hendrik C. van de Hulst
Context triple: [Jan Oort, notableStudent, Hendrik C. van de Hulst]
  • A. Jan Oort
    Jan Oort was a Dutch astronomer renowned for his pioneering work on the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way and for proposing the existence of the distant cometary reservoir now known as the Oort cloud.
  • B. Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn
    Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn was a Dutch astronomer renowned for his pioneering work on the structure of the Milky Way and stellar statistics in the early 20th century.
  • C. Willem Bilderdijk
    Willem Bilderdijk was a Dutch poet, historian, and linguist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for his conservative views and significant influence on Dutch Romantic literature.
  • D. Willem de Sitter
    Willem de Sitter was a Dutch astronomer and physicist known for his pioneering work in cosmology and general relativity, particularly his influential models of the expanding universe.
  • E. Walter Baade
    Walter Baade was a German astronomer whose work on variable stars and the structure of the Milky Way led to a major revision of the cosmic distance scale and our understanding of the universe’s size and age.
  • 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: Hendrik C. van de Hulst
Triple: [Jan Oort, notableStudent, Hendrik C. van de Hulst]
Generated description
Hendrik C. van de Hulst was a Dutch astronomer and physicist best known for predicting the 21-cm hydrogen line, which became a cornerstone of radio astronomy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hendrik C. van de Hulst
Target entity description: Hendrik C. van de Hulst was a Dutch astronomer and physicist best known for predicting the 21-cm hydrogen line, which became a cornerstone of radio astronomy.
  • A. Jan Oort
    Jan Oort was a Dutch astronomer renowned for his pioneering work on the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way and for proposing the existence of the distant cometary reservoir now known as the Oort cloud.
  • B. Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn
    Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn was a Dutch astronomer renowned for his pioneering work on the structure of the Milky Way and stellar statistics in the early 20th century.
  • C. Willem Bilderdijk
    Willem Bilderdijk was a Dutch poet, historian, and linguist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for his conservative views and significant influence on Dutch Romantic literature.
  • D. Willem de Sitter
    Willem de Sitter was a Dutch astronomer and physicist known for his pioneering work in cosmology and general relativity, particularly his influential models of the expanding universe.
  • E. Walter Baade
    Walter Baade was a German astronomer whose work on variable stars and the structure of the Milky Way led to a major revision of the cosmic distance scale and our understanding of the universe’s size and age.
  • 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_69bd43f779448190b92885cb70abb6c2 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6c80ce048190a7c9f14431d7c62f completed March 20, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be67cb1fe48190821c1daf930a70ff completed March 21, 2026, 9:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be6874a1348190ac90c137299d4468 completed March 21, 2026, 9:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be68c77c088190a57376c608abe4c0 completed March 21, 2026, 9:45 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:23 p.m.