Triple

T21867949
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ursa Minor E539929 entity
Predicate containsStar P1393 FINISHED
Object Kochab
Kochab is a bright orange giant star in the constellation Ursa Minor that historically served as a prominent pole star before Polaris.
 E1504711 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: Kochab | Statement: [Ursa Minor, containsStar, Kochab]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Kochab
Context triple: [Ursa Minor, containsStar, Kochab]
  • A. Schedar
    Schedar is a bright, orange giant star that serves as one of the principal stars marking the distinctive "W"-shaped constellation Cassiopeia in the northern sky.
  • B. Canopus
    Canopus was an ancient Egyptian coastal city near modern-day Alexandria, known as a major religious center and sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Isis.
  • C. Canopus
    Canopus is the second-brightest star in the night sky, a luminous F-type supergiant prominently visible in the southern hemisphere.
  • D. Phecda
    Phecda is a prominent main-sequence star that forms part of the Big Dipper asterism in the constellation Ursa Major.
  • E. Achernar
    Achernar is a bright, rapidly rotating blue-white star and the ninth-brightest star in the night sky, marking the end of the constellation Eridanus.
  • 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: Kochab
Triple: [Ursa Minor, containsStar, Kochab]
Generated description
Kochab is a bright orange giant star in the constellation Ursa Minor that historically served as a prominent pole star before Polaris.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Kochab
Target entity description: Kochab is a bright orange giant star in the constellation Ursa Minor that historically served as a prominent pole star before Polaris.
  • A. Schedar
    Schedar is a bright, orange giant star that serves as one of the principal stars marking the distinctive "W"-shaped constellation Cassiopeia in the northern sky.
  • B. Canopus
    Canopus is the second-brightest star in the night sky, a luminous F-type supergiant prominently visible in the southern hemisphere.
  • C. Canopus
    Canopus was an ancient Egyptian coastal city near modern-day Alexandria, known as a major religious center and sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Isis.
  • D. Phecda
    Phecda is a prominent main-sequence star that forms part of the Big Dipper asterism in the constellation Ursa Major.
  • E. Achernar
    Achernar is a bright, rapidly rotating blue-white star and the ninth-brightest star in the night sky, marking the end of the constellation Eridanus.
  • 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_69e0c478f59081909d54302b57fc1ce3 completed April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f0f33305d081908cd070134420607a completed April 28, 2026, 5:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a4be0360c8190b0044adf4e8b921c completed May 17, 2026, 11:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a4c9a02bc8190b285694c2710b825 completed May 17, 2026, 11:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a4d5d1b448190ba4387b0a3cc4285 completed May 17, 2026, 11:21 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:57 p.m.