Triple

T16427387
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Antony Hewish E398978 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Hewish
Hewish is an English surname most notably associated with astrophysicist Antony Hewish, a Nobel Prize laureate recognized for his role in the discovery of pulsars.
E1212828 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: Hewish | Statement: [Antony Hewish, familyName, Hewish]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hewish
Context triple: [Antony Hewish, familyName, Hewish]
  • A. Eddington
    Eddington is a surname most famously associated with Arthur Stanley Eddington, the influential English astrophysicist who helped confirm Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
  • B. Eddington
    Eddington is a small town in Penobscot County, Maine, known for its rural character and proximity to the Bangor metropolitan area.
  • C. Robert Hanbury Brown
    Robert Hanbury Brown was a British physicist and radio astronomer best known for pioneering intensity interferometry, which led to the Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect and advanced the measurement of stellar diameters.
  • D. Harold Spencer Jones
    Harold Spencer Jones was a prominent 20th-century British astronomer who served as the last Astronomer Royal to be responsible for the Royal Greenwich Observatory and made significant contributions to positional astronomy and the determination of the astronomical unit.
  • E. Halton Arp
    Halton Arp was an American astronomer best known for his influential Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies and his controversial challenges to the standard cosmological redshift-distance interpretation.
  • 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: Hewish
Triple: [Antony Hewish, familyName, Hewish]
Generated description
Hewish is an English surname most notably associated with astrophysicist Antony Hewish, a Nobel Prize laureate recognized for his role in the discovery of pulsars.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hewish
Target entity description: Hewish is an English surname most notably associated with astrophysicist Antony Hewish, a Nobel Prize laureate recognized for his role in the discovery of pulsars.
  • A. Eddington
    Eddington is a surname most famously associated with Arthur Stanley Eddington, the influential English astrophysicist who helped confirm Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
  • B. Eddington
    Eddington is a small town in Penobscot County, Maine, known for its rural character and proximity to the Bangor metropolitan area.
  • C. Robert Hanbury Brown
    Robert Hanbury Brown was a British physicist and radio astronomer best known for pioneering intensity interferometry, which led to the Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect and advanced the measurement of stellar diameters.
  • D. Harold Spencer Jones
    Harold Spencer Jones was a prominent 20th-century British astronomer who served as the last Astronomer Royal to be responsible for the Royal Greenwich Observatory and made significant contributions to positional astronomy and the determination of the astronomical unit.
  • E. Halton Arp
    Halton Arp was an American astronomer best known for his influential Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies and his controversial challenges to the standard cosmological redshift-distance interpretation.
  • 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_69d87f2b9024819085c20e52de95d583 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e328fb6cd881908fb6cd1c60f5ac3c completed April 18, 2026, 6:47 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00458168888190bd0be495efa5c563 completed May 10, 2026, 8:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a004621f0908190ad97a15fec619765 completed May 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0046a88e048190baa78506808171b8 completed May 10, 2026, 8:49 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:09 a.m.