Triple
T143878
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Carl Sagan |
E2910
|
entity |
| Predicate | familyName |
P18
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Sagan |
E10635
|
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: Sagan | Statement: [Carl Sagan, familyName, Sagan]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sagan Context triple: [Carl Sagan, familyName, Sagan]
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A.
Bardeen
Bardeen is a surname most notably associated with John Bardeen, the American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
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B.
Nick Sagan
chosen
Nick Sagan is an American science fiction writer and screenwriter, known for his work on television series like Star Trek and for being the son of astronomer Carl Sagan.
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C.
Dorion Sagan
Dorion Sagan is an American science writer and essayist known for his works on evolution, ecology, and complexity, and for coauthoring influential books with his mother, biologist Lynn Margulis.
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D.
Gaia
Gaia is the primordial Greek earth goddess, revered as the ancestral mother of all life and the personification of the Earth itself.
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E.
Kosmos
Kosmos is Alexander von Humboldt’s multi-volume work that presents a comprehensive scientific and philosophical overview of the natural world and the universe.
- 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_69a2521e35c08190b28e5c9f1e3c9b59 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:25 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a257caf678819092e975d5167f9df4 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:49 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a2bf691a848190a4f6e40d9aea2168 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 10:11 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:31 a.m.