Triple

T4943081
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Clyde Tombaugh E110982 entity
Predicate hasAsteroidNamedAfter P17121 FINISHED
Object 2939 Coconino (discovered by him and associated with his work)
2939 Coconino (discovered by him and associated with his work) is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto.
E110982 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: 2939 Coconino (discovered by him and associated with his work) | Statement: [Clyde Tombaugh, hasAsteroidNamedAfter, 2939 Coconino (discovered by him and associated with his work)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 2939 Coconino (discovered by him and associated with his work)
Context triple: [Clyde Tombaugh, hasAsteroidNamedAfter, 2939 Coconino (discovered by him and associated with his work)]
  • A. asteroid 3356 Resnik
    Asteroid 3356 Resnik is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronaut Judith Resnik, who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • B. Cocconi
    Cocconi is an Italian surname most notably associated with physicist Giuseppe Cocconi, a pioneer in particle physics and early SETI research.
  • C. Clyde Tombaugh
    Clyde Tombaugh was an American astronomer best known for discovering the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930.
  • D. Joseph Stickney
    Joseph Stickney was an American industrialist and hotelier best known for developing New Hampshire’s grand Mount Washington Hotel in the early 20th century.
  • E. Edward Emerson Barnard
    Edward Emerson Barnard was an American astronomer renowned for his discoveries of comets, dark nebulae, and the high proper-motion star now known as Barnard's Star.
  • 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: 2939 Coconino (discovered by him and associated with his work)
Triple: [Clyde Tombaugh, hasAsteroidNamedAfter, 2939 Coconino (discovered by him and associated with his work)]
Generated description
2939 Coconino (discovered by him and associated with his work) is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 2939 Coconino (discovered by him and associated with his work)
Target entity description: 2939 Coconino (discovered by him and associated with his work) is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto.
  • A. asteroid 3356 Resnik
    Asteroid 3356 Resnik is a main-belt asteroid named in honor of American astronaut Judith Resnik, who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • B. Cocconi
    Cocconi is an Italian surname most notably associated with physicist Giuseppe Cocconi, a pioneer in particle physics and early SETI research.
  • C. Clyde Tombaugh chosen
    Clyde Tombaugh was an American astronomer best known for discovering the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930.
  • D. Joseph Stickney
    Joseph Stickney was an American industrialist and hotelier best known for developing New Hampshire’s grand Mount Washington Hotel in the early 20th century.
  • E. Edward Emerson Barnard
    Edward Emerson Barnard was an American astronomer renowned for his discoveries of comets, dark nebulae, and the high proper-motion star now known as Barnard's Star.
  • F. None of above.

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_69be77c421288190bcc2d9bfdfff7198 completed March 21, 2026, 10:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be79127e80819088a97e674991fc8b completed March 21, 2026, 10:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be7990fd048190b3d1acaa6e3bce90 completed March 21, 2026, 10:57 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:31 p.m.