Triple

T893003
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject University of Edinburgh E19281 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object Piers Sellers
Piers Sellers was a British-American NASA astronaut and climate scientist known for his space shuttle missions and contributions to Earth science research.
 E108157 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: Piers Sellers | Statement: [University of Edinburgh, hasNotableAlumnus, Piers Sellers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Piers Sellers
Context triple: [University of Edinburgh, hasNotableAlumnus, Piers Sellers]
  • A. Ernest A. Grunsfeld Jr.
    Ernest A. Grunsfeld Jr. was an American architect best known for designing Chicago’s Adler Planetarium, one of the first modern planetariums in the United States.
  • B. Curtis Priem
    Curtis Priem is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early chief technology officer of the graphics processing company NVIDIA.
  • C. John David Stier
    John David Stier is the son of Nobel Prize–winning mathematician John Nash and Eleanor Stier.
  • D. Bruce T. Draine
    Bruce T. Draine is an American astrophysicist renowned for his influential work on interstellar dust and the interstellar medium.
  • E. Nicholas Sagan
    Nicholas Sagan is the son of science communicator Ann Druyan and famed astronomer Carl Sagan.
  • 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: Piers Sellers
Triple: [University of Edinburgh, hasNotableAlumnus, Piers Sellers]
Generated description
Piers Sellers was a British-American NASA astronaut and climate scientist known for his space shuttle missions and contributions to Earth science research.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Piers Sellers
Target entity description: Piers Sellers was a British-American NASA astronaut and climate scientist known for his space shuttle missions and contributions to Earth science research.
  • A. Ernest A. Grunsfeld Jr.
    Ernest A. Grunsfeld Jr. was an American architect best known for designing Chicago’s Adler Planetarium, one of the first modern planetariums in the United States.
  • B. Curtis Priem
    Curtis Priem is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early chief technology officer of the graphics processing company NVIDIA.
  • C. John David Stier
    John David Stier is the son of Nobel Prize–winning mathematician John Nash and Eleanor Stier.
  • D. Bruce T. Draine
    Bruce T. Draine is an American astrophysicist renowned for his influential work on interstellar dust and the interstellar medium.
  • E. Nicholas Sagan
    Nicholas Sagan is the son of science communicator Ann Druyan and famed astronomer Carl Sagan.
  • 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_69a4939d37188190848be3d426ebc9ae completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ad212cd8819091eb1b7d606f5afd completed March 1, 2026, 9:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7cf5824608190beb2c934d4986219 completed March 4, 2026, 6:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7cff6d01c81909c838fe9b2242e2a completed March 4, 2026, 6:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7d066a3488190b4737ab9e8093892 completed March 4, 2026, 6:25 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.