Triple

T992522
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Uranus E21422 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 pioneering deep-sky surveys of the night sky.
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: [Uranus, discoveredBy, William Herschel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Herschel
Context triple: [Uranus, discoveredBy, William Herschel]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Charles Messier
    Charles Messier was an 18th-century French astronomer best known for compiling the Messier catalog of nebulae and star clusters to help comet hunters avoid confusing them with comets.
  • C. William Marsden
    William Marsden was a prominent 19th-century British surgeon and medical philanthropist who founded both the Royal Free Hospital and the Royal Marsden Hospital in London.
  • D. Urbain Le Verrier
    Urbain Le Verrier was a 19th-century French mathematician and astronomer renowned for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using celestial mechanics before it was directly observed.
  • E. Giuseppe Piazzi
    Giuseppe Piazzi was an Italian Catholic priest, astronomer, and mathematician best known for discovering the dwarf planet Ceres in 1801.
  • 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: [Uranus, discoveredBy, William Herschel]
Generated description
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.
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 pioneering deep-sky surveys of the night sky.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Charles Messier
    Charles Messier was an 18th-century French astronomer best known for compiling the Messier catalog of nebulae and star clusters to help comet hunters avoid confusing them with comets.
  • C. William Marsden
    William Marsden was a prominent 19th-century British surgeon and medical philanthropist who founded both the Royal Free Hospital and the Royal Marsden Hospital in London.
  • D. Urbain Le Verrier
    Urbain Le Verrier was a 19th-century French mathematician and astronomer renowned for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using celestial mechanics before it was directly observed.
  • E. Giuseppe Piazzi
    Giuseppe Piazzi was an Italian Catholic priest, astronomer, and mathematician best known for discovering the dwarf planet Ceres in 1801.
  • 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_69a493c476b48190b41fc5e793171cc6 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b4c3f7b48190a31308bdc09817c6 completed March 1, 2026, 9:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac4289acc88190886ac8971297b1f8 completed March 7, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac4365965881909ff2cdf8eda07f91 completed March 7, 2026, 3:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac43d1cd1c8190852f8811703ebd5f completed March 7, 2026, 3:27 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:41 p.m.