Triple
T9927885
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John C. Mather |
E187968
|
entity |
| Predicate | name |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John C. Mather |
E187968
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: John C. Mather | Statement: [John C. Mather, name, John C. Mather]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John C. Mather Context triple: [John C. Mather, name, John C. Mather]
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A.
John C. Mather
chosen
John C. Mather is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist, Nobel Prize laureate, and a leading scientist behind NASA’s Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) mission that helped confirm the Big Bang theory.
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B.
George F. Smoot
George F. Smoot is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist best known for his Nobel Prize–winning work on cosmic microwave background radiation, which provided strong evidence for the Big Bang theory.
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C.
Neil Gehrels
Neil Gehrels was an influential American astrophysicist known for his pioneering work in gamma-ray astronomy and leadership of major space observatory missions.
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D.
Willis E. Davidge
Willis E. Davidge is a human fighter pilot who becomes stranded on an alien world and forges an unlikely bond with his Drac enemy in the science fiction story "Enemy Mine."
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E.
Alan H. Nichols
Alan H. Nichols is an American legal figure best known for his role as a named party in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Lau v. Nichols concerning the rights of non-English-speaking students in public schools.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca82b22a688190b52c75bd48429c10 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cdb59d7ad08190982a1584547190bd |
completed | April 2, 2026, 12:17 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d228c23a2c81908fa2cb3a4f90d198 |
completed | April 5, 2026, 9:17 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:43 p.m.