Triple
T20403271
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry |
E500393
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableHolder |
P1918
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John Couch Adams |
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NE NERFINISHED |
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: John Couch Adams | Statement: [Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry, notableHolder, John Couch Adams]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Couch Adams Context triple: [Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry, notableHolder, John Couch Adams]
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A.
John Couch Adams
chosen
John Couch Adams was a 19th-century English mathematician and astronomer best known for his role in the prediction of the planet Neptune.
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B.
George William Hill
George William Hill was a prominent 19th-century American mathematician and astronomer known for his influential work in celestial mechanics and lunar theory.
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C.
Urbain Le Verrier
Urbain Le Verrier was a 19th-century French mathematician and astronomer renowned for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using celestial mechanics before it was directly observed.
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D.
Norman Robert Pogson
Norman Robert Pogson was a 19th-century English astronomer best known for defining the modern stellar magnitude scale and for his extensive observations and discoveries of asteroids and variable stars.
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E.
Simon Newcomb
Simon Newcomb was a 19th-century Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician renowned for his work in celestial mechanics, astronomical constants, and early studies of what became known as Benford's law.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69e0b4a81bec8190b69adfdc1336a015 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6799080cc819096dc31f41d1d7b49 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 7:08 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:29 a.m.