Triple

T1652883
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Bronx High School of Science E35731 entity
Predicate hasAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object John C. Mather
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.
E187968 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: John C. Mather | Statement: [The Bronx High School of Science, hasAlumnus, John C. Mather]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John C. Mather
Context triple: [The Bronx High School of Science, hasAlumnus, John C. Mather]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Edward M. Wright
    Edward M. Wright was a British mathematician best known as the co-author, with G. H. Hardy, of the classic textbook "An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers."
  • C. Lyman Spitzer Jr.
    Lyman Spitzer Jr. was an influential American astrophysicist best known for his pioneering work on interstellar matter and for conceiving and advocating the development of space-based telescopes, including what became the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • D. Robert H. Dicke
    Robert H. Dicke was an influential American physicist known for his pioneering work in gravitation, cosmology, and microwave physics, including contributions that helped establish the Big Bang theory.
  • E. Riccardo Giacconi
    Riccardo Giacconi was an Italian-American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate widely regarded as a pioneer of X-ray astronomy.
  • 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: John C. Mather
Triple: [The Bronx High School of Science, hasAlumnus, John C. Mather]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John C. Mather
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Edward M. Wright
    Edward M. Wright was a British mathematician best known as the co-author, with G. H. Hardy, of the classic textbook "An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers."
  • C. Lyman Spitzer Jr.
    Lyman Spitzer Jr. was an influential American astrophysicist best known for his pioneering work on interstellar matter and for conceiving and advocating the development of space-based telescopes, including what became the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • D. Robert H. Dicke
    Robert H. Dicke was an influential American physicist known for his pioneering work in gravitation, cosmology, and microwave physics, including contributions that helped establish the Big Bang theory.
  • E. Riccardo Giacconi
    Riccardo Giacconi was an Italian-American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate widely regarded as a pioneer of X-ray astronomy.
  • 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_69a8860568888190a32cd9f70acbba42 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a90a88cb108190a836b972f600c257 completed March 5, 2026, 4:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad681db3408190a3b469e319486419 completed March 8, 2026, 12:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad692a4078819080c3a89166917081 completed March 8, 2026, 12:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad698929f88190af97fc915d29a5b5 completed March 8, 2026, 12:20 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.