Triple

T5466991
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject IC 1805 E122734 entity
Predicate discoveredBy P412 FINISHED
Object William Herschel
William Herschel was an 18th-century British-German astronomer and composer best known for discovering the planet Uranus and conducting pioneering deep-sky surveys.
 E124368 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: William Herschel | Statement: [IC 1805, discoveredBy, William Herschel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Herschel
Context triple: [IC 1805, discoveredBy, William Herschel]
  • A. William Herschel
    William Herschel was an 18th-century British-German astronomer and composer best known for discovering the planet Uranus and pioneering deep-sky surveys of the night sky.
  • B. Friedrich Bessel
    Friedrich Bessel was a German astronomer and mathematician renowned for his precise measurements of stellar positions and distances, including the first reliable determination of a star’s parallax.
  • C. Georg de Lalande
    Georg de Lalande was a German architect active in the early 20th century, known for designing prominent public and governmental buildings in East Asia.
  • D. Edmund Halley
    Edmund Halley was an English astronomer and mathematician best known for calculating the orbit of the periodic comet that now bears his name, Halley’s Comet.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: William Herschel
Triple: [IC 1805, discoveredBy, William Herschel]
Generated description
William Herschel was an 18th-century British-German astronomer and composer best known for discovering the planet Uranus and conducting pioneering deep-sky surveys.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Herschel
Target entity description: William Herschel was an 18th-century British-German astronomer and composer best known for discovering the planet Uranus and conducting pioneering deep-sky surveys.
  • A. William Herschel chosen
    William Herschel was an 18th-century British-German astronomer and composer best known for discovering the planet Uranus and pioneering deep-sky surveys of the night sky.
  • B. Friedrich Bessel
    Friedrich Bessel was a German astronomer and mathematician renowned for his precise measurements of stellar positions and distances, including the first reliable determination of a star’s parallax.
  • C. Georg de Lalande
    Georg de Lalande was a German architect active in the early 20th century, known for designing prominent public and governmental buildings in East Asia.
  • D. Edmund Halley
    Edmund Halley was an English astronomer and mathematician best known for calculating the orbit of the periodic comet that now bears his name, Halley’s Comet.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69bd4643f16081908d7f29e08096115a completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd9217009c819082631a2758b5f2a4 completed March 20, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf488da1d8819091e1cad0500b1747 completed March 22, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf4f5d620881908b460af328750cb7 completed March 22, 2026, 2:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf4fca93a08190b573e66d28aff4a3 completed March 22, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:08 p.m.