Triple

T6250966
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Friedrich Bessel E140043 entity
Predicate hasEponym P12247 FINISHED
Object Besselian year
A Besselian year is a time interval used in astronomy, defined with respect to the Sun’s mean position relative to the stars and historically used as a reference for star catalogs and celestial coordinates.
E579592 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: Besselian year | Statement: [Friedrich Bessel, hasEponym, Besselian year]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Besselian year
Context triple: [Friedrich Bessel, hasEponym, Besselian year]
  • A. Saros cycle
    The Saros cycle is an approximately 18-year period after which nearly identical solar and lunar eclipses repeat, due to the alignment of the Earth, Moon, and Sun.
  • B. Barycentric Dynamical Time
    Barycentric Dynamical Time is a relativistic time scale used in celestial mechanics and ephemerides, defined for an observer at the solar system’s barycenter to accurately model planetary and spacecraft motions.
  • C. Ephemerides
    Ephemerides is a 15th-century astronomical table compiled by Regiomontanus that provided highly accurate planetary positions and became a foundational tool for navigation and astronomy in early modern Europe.
  • D. Metonic cycle
    The Metonic cycle is a 19-year astronomical period after which the phases of the Moon recur on the same days of the solar year, forming the basis for many lunisolar calendars.
  • E. Milanković calendar
    The Milanković calendar is a 20th-century reform of the Julian calendar, designed by Serbian scientist Milutin Milanković to more accurately align the civil year with the solar year and used by some Eastern Orthodox churches.
  • 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: Besselian year
Triple: [Friedrich Bessel, hasEponym, Besselian year]
Generated description
A Besselian year is a time interval used in astronomy, defined with respect to the Sun’s mean position relative to the stars and historically used as a reference for star catalogs and celestial coordinates.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Besselian year
Target entity description: A Besselian year is a time interval used in astronomy, defined with respect to the Sun’s mean position relative to the stars and historically used as a reference for star catalogs and celestial coordinates.
  • A. Saros cycle
    The Saros cycle is an approximately 18-year period after which nearly identical solar and lunar eclipses repeat, due to the alignment of the Earth, Moon, and Sun.
  • B. Barycentric Dynamical Time
    Barycentric Dynamical Time is a relativistic time scale used in celestial mechanics and ephemerides, defined for an observer at the solar system’s barycenter to accurately model planetary and spacecraft motions.
  • C. Ephemerides
    Ephemerides is a 15th-century astronomical table compiled by Regiomontanus that provided highly accurate planetary positions and became a foundational tool for navigation and astronomy in early modern Europe.
  • D. Metonic cycle
    The Metonic cycle is a 19-year astronomical period after which the phases of the Moon recur on the same days of the solar year, forming the basis for many lunisolar calendars.
  • E. Milanković calendar
    The Milanković calendar is a 20th-century reform of the Julian calendar, designed by Serbian scientist Milutin Milanković to more accurately align the civil year with the solar year and used by some Eastern Orthodox churches.
  • 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_69c008b4858c819095b0199114a9a87b completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0633dde348190bbf02a943d94e3be completed March 22, 2026, 9:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c244240b448190be3645177194ced6 completed March 24, 2026, 7:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c2756cf5c88190aed2c5e0916082e7 completed March 24, 2026, 11:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c275d913cc8190be3770f12c271226 completed March 24, 2026, 11:30 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:24 p.m.