Triple

T15637608
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Schmidt telescope E375985 entity
Predicate inventedBy P632 FINISHED
Object Bernhard Schmidt
Bernhard Schmidt was a German optician and astronomer best known for creating the wide-field Schmidt camera design that revolutionized astronomical photography and sky surveys.
E1168409 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: Bernhard Schmidt | Statement: [Schmidt telescope, inventedBy, Bernhard Schmidt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bernhard Schmidt
Context triple: [Schmidt telescope, inventedBy, Bernhard Schmidt]
  • A. Franz Pökler
    Franz Pökler is a German rocket engineer in Thomas Pynchon’s novel "Gravity’s Rainbow," whose work on the V-2 program is intertwined with themes of coercion, guilt, and the dehumanizing machinery of war.
  • B. Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
    Heinrich Louis d'Arrest was a 19th-century German astronomer known for his contributions to comet and nebula observations, including assisting in the discovery of Neptune.
  • C. Ernst Abbe
    Ernst Abbe was a German physicist, optical scientist, and entrepreneur renowned for his fundamental contributions to optical theory and for co-founding the Carl Zeiss optics company.
  • D. Christian Hermann Weisse
    Christian Hermann Weisse was a 19th-century German Protestant theologian and philosopher known for his early advocacy of Markan priority in New Testament scholarship and his contributions to speculative theism.
  • E. Friedrich Argelander
    Friedrich Argelander was a 19th-century German astronomer best known for his pioneering work in stellar cataloging and variable star research.
  • 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: Bernhard Schmidt
Triple: [Schmidt telescope, inventedBy, Bernhard Schmidt]
Generated description
Bernhard Schmidt was a German optician and astronomer best known for creating the wide-field Schmidt camera design that revolutionized astronomical photography and sky surveys.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bernhard Schmidt
Target entity description: Bernhard Schmidt was a German optician and astronomer best known for creating the wide-field Schmidt camera design that revolutionized astronomical photography and sky surveys.
  • A. Franz Pökler
    Franz Pökler is a German rocket engineer in Thomas Pynchon’s novel "Gravity’s Rainbow," whose work on the V-2 program is intertwined with themes of coercion, guilt, and the dehumanizing machinery of war.
  • B. Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
    Heinrich Louis d'Arrest was a 19th-century German astronomer known for his contributions to comet and nebula observations, including assisting in the discovery of Neptune.
  • C. Ernst Abbe
    Ernst Abbe was a German physicist, optical scientist, and entrepreneur renowned for his fundamental contributions to optical theory and for co-founding the Carl Zeiss optics company.
  • D. Christian Hermann Weisse
    Christian Hermann Weisse was a 19th-century German Protestant theologian and philosopher known for his early advocacy of Markan priority in New Testament scholarship and his contributions to speculative theism.
  • E. Friedrich Argelander
    Friedrich Argelander was a 19th-century German astronomer best known for his pioneering work in stellar cataloging and variable star research.
  • 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_69d85cd035a48190b73d5579ab73969a completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04eba51f08190ac5d9de7fc89405a completed April 16, 2026, 2:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff5f4923ac8190a03fe1f2c878c27e completed May 9, 2026, 4:22 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff608017d481909dab53450fbdb1e4 completed May 9, 2026, 4:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff61929780819096537342305ea505 completed May 9, 2026, 4:32 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:14 a.m.