Triple
T144040
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Linda Salzman Sagan |
E2913
|
entity |
| Predicate | collaboratedWith |
P435
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Frank Drake |
E20721
|
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: Frank Drake | Statement: [Linda Salzman Sagan, collaboratedWith, Frank Drake]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank Drake Context triple: [Linda Salzman Sagan, collaboratedWith, Frank Drake]
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A.
Frank Drake
chosen
Frank Drake was an American astronomer and astrophysicist best known for formulating the Drake Equation to estimate the number of communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy.
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B.
Norman Spinrad
Norman Spinrad is an American science fiction author known for his provocative, politically charged novels and short stories, including "Bug Jack Barron" and "The Iron Dream."
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C.
Walter Baade
Walter Baade was a German astronomer whose work on variable stars and the structure of the Milky Way led to a major revision of the cosmic distance scale and our understanding of the universe’s size and age.
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D.
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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E.
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan was an American astronomer, cosmologist, and science communicator best known for popularizing science through works like the book and television series "Cosmos."
- 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_69a358763c10819085252de003a45435 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 9:04 p.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:31 a.m.