Triple

T4943060
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Clyde Tombaugh E110982 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Patricia Edson Tombaugh
Patricia Edson Tombaugh was an American educator and the wife of astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, noted for her support of his astronomical work and preservation of his legacy.
E485179 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: Patricia Edson Tombaugh | Statement: [Clyde Tombaugh, spouse, Patricia Edson Tombaugh]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Patricia Edson Tombaugh
Context triple: [Clyde Tombaugh, spouse, Patricia Edson Tombaugh]
  • A. Clyde Tombaugh
    Clyde Tombaugh was an American astronomer best known for discovering the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930.
  • B. Williamina Fleming
    Williamina Fleming was a pioneering Scottish-American astronomer who made major contributions to stellar classification and the discovery of numerous astronomical objects while working at the Harvard College Observatory.
  • C. Margaret Bell Ervin
    Margaret Bell Ervin was the wife of U.S. Senator Sam Ervin, known primarily for her role as his lifelong partner and supporter during his long legal and political career.
  • D. Nancy Grace Roman
    Nancy Grace Roman was an American astronomer known as the “Mother of Hubble” for her pioneering role in developing NASA’s space-based astronomy program and championing the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • E. Henrietta Hill Swope
    Henrietta Hill Swope was an American astronomer known for her pioneering work on variable stars and for being one of the first women to make significant contributions to modern observational astronomy.
  • 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: Patricia Edson Tombaugh
Triple: [Clyde Tombaugh, spouse, Patricia Edson Tombaugh]
Generated description
Patricia Edson Tombaugh was an American educator and the wife of astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, noted for her support of his astronomical work and preservation of his legacy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Patricia Edson Tombaugh
Target entity description: Patricia Edson Tombaugh was an American educator and the wife of astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, noted for her support of his astronomical work and preservation of his legacy.
  • A. Clyde Tombaugh
    Clyde Tombaugh was an American astronomer best known for discovering the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930.
  • B. Williamina Fleming
    Williamina Fleming was a pioneering Scottish-American astronomer who made major contributions to stellar classification and the discovery of numerous astronomical objects while working at the Harvard College Observatory.
  • C. Margaret Bell Ervin
    Margaret Bell Ervin was the wife of U.S. Senator Sam Ervin, known primarily for her role as his lifelong partner and supporter during his long legal and political career.
  • D. Nancy Grace Roman
    Nancy Grace Roman was an American astronomer known as the “Mother of Hubble” for her pioneering role in developing NASA’s space-based astronomy program and championing the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • E. Henrietta Hill Swope
    Henrietta Hill Swope was an American astronomer known for her pioneering work on variable stars and for being one of the first women to make significant contributions to modern observational astronomy.
  • 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_69bd441721cc819085c7e33fe0876818 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd70a7650c8190b046b65072fd8eae completed March 20, 2026, 4:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be89eefa5c8190871debbb8fe6dabe completed March 21, 2026, 12:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be8d2bae388190a52ef5ad3492f414 completed March 21, 2026, 12:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be8da7d6748190b67ac98df84c7555 completed March 21, 2026, 12:23 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:31 p.m.