Triple

T21671613
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject E. T. Whittaker E534858 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College, Dublin — 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: Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College, Dublin | Statement: [E. T. Whittaker, positionHeld, Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College, Dublin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College, Dublin
Context triple: [E. T. Whittaker, positionHeld, Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College, Dublin]
  • A. Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College Dublin chosen
    The Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College Dublin is a prestigious academic chair in astronomy historically associated with the mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton.
  • B. Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford
    The Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford is a prestigious endowed chair in astronomy held by leading scholars, historically including figures such as Sir Christopher Wren.
  • C. Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University
    The Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University is a prestigious endowed chair in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences, historically associated with leading figures in theoretical and observational astronomy.
  • D. Phillips Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University
    The Phillips Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the Harvard astronomy department, historically notable as the first such professorship in the field to be held by a woman.
  • E. Perkins Professor of Astronomy and Mathematics at Harvard University
    The Perkins Professor of Astronomy and Mathematics at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair historically associated with leading contributions to both astronomical research and mathematical scholarship at the university.
  • 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_69e0c46898008190aa618a4af55bd1ee completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ef8a0badd08190ad2ec2b8e46be379 completed April 27, 2026, 4:08 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:37 p.m.