Triple

T2040184
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edmund Halley E44724 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object Halley’s star catalogue of the southern sky
Halley’s star catalogue of the southern sky is an early 18th-century astronomical catalog compiled by Edmund Halley that systematically recorded and improved the positions of stars in the southern celestial hemisphere.
E229503 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: Halley’s star catalogue of the southern sky | Statement: [Edmund Halley, knownFor, Halley’s star catalogue of the southern sky]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Halley’s star catalogue of the southern sky
Context triple: [Edmund Halley, knownFor, Halley’s star catalogue of the southern sky]
  • A. A Compendium of Spherical Astronomy
    A Compendium of Spherical Astronomy is a foundational 19th-century textbook by Simon Newcomb that systematically presents the mathematical and theoretical principles underlying positional astronomy and celestial mechanics.
  • B. Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalogs
    The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalogs are comprehensive astronomical catalogs that provide precise positional and photometric data for millions of stars, widely used for research and satellite tracking.
  • C. New General Catalogue
    The New General Catalogue is a comprehensive 19th-century astronomical catalog of deep-sky objects, including galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters, that remains widely used by astronomers today.
  • D. Rudolphine Tables
    The Rudolphine Tables are a landmark 17th-century star catalog and set of astronomical tables compiled by Johannes Kepler, renowned for their unprecedented accuracy in predicting planetary positions.
  • E. The Astronomer
    "The Astronomer" is a 17th-century painting by Dutch master Johannes Vermeer depicting a scholar studying the heavens in a meticulously rendered interior scene.
  • 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: Halley’s star catalogue of the southern sky
Triple: [Edmund Halley, knownFor, Halley’s star catalogue of the southern sky]
Generated description
Halley’s star catalogue of the southern sky is an early 18th-century astronomical catalog compiled by Edmund Halley that systematically recorded and improved the positions of stars in the southern celestial hemisphere.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Halley’s star catalogue of the southern sky
Target entity description: Halley’s star catalogue of the southern sky is an early 18th-century astronomical catalog compiled by Edmund Halley that systematically recorded and improved the positions of stars in the southern celestial hemisphere.
  • A. A Compendium of Spherical Astronomy
    A Compendium of Spherical Astronomy is a foundational 19th-century textbook by Simon Newcomb that systematically presents the mathematical and theoretical principles underlying positional astronomy and celestial mechanics.
  • B. Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalogs
    The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalogs are comprehensive astronomical catalogs that provide precise positional and photometric data for millions of stars, widely used for research and satellite tracking.
  • C. New General Catalogue
    The New General Catalogue is a comprehensive 19th-century astronomical catalog of deep-sky objects, including galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters, that remains widely used by astronomers today.
  • D. Rudolphine Tables
    The Rudolphine Tables are a landmark 17th-century star catalog and set of astronomical tables compiled by Johannes Kepler, renowned for their unprecedented accuracy in predicting planetary positions.
  • E. The Astronomer
    "The Astronomer" is a 17th-century painting by Dutch master Johannes Vermeer depicting a scholar studying the heavens in a meticulously rendered interior scene.
  • 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_69a889159ec481908f9e4472d9f480c7 completed March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb9533bd881909e3aecff7ddb5a8b completed March 7, 2026, 5:36 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae1ff92928819093f42f0fe4a935b3 completed March 9, 2026, 1:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae20efd4dc8190addf69c80a33d247 completed March 9, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae21b4ce248190bbd7542592db0ec4 completed March 9, 2026, 1:26 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:39 p.m.