Triple

T2296739
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edwin E. Salpeter E51632 entity
Predicate coAuthor P398 FINISHED
Object Fred Hoyle
Fred Hoyle was a British astronomer and cosmologist best known for his work on stellar nucleosynthesis and for coining the term "Big Bang," which he actually opposed as a theory.
E255247 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: Fred Hoyle | Statement: [Edwin E. Salpeter, coAuthor, Fred Hoyle]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fred Hoyle
Context triple: [Edwin E. Salpeter, coAuthor, Fred Hoyle]
  • A. George Ellis
    George Ellis was a figure significant enough in local or regional history that the city of Ellis, Kansas, was named in his honor, likely for his contributions to the area's development or founding.
  • B. George Ellis
    George Ellis is a South African cosmologist renowned for his work on general relativity and the large-scale structure of the universe, as well as for his collaborations with Stephen Hawking.
  • C. William A. Fowler
    William A. Fowler was an American nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the nuclear reactions that power stars and synthesize the chemical elements.
  • D. Henry Norris Russell
    Henry Norris Russell was an influential American astronomer best known for co-developing the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram, a fundamental tool in stellar astrophysics.
  • E. Arthur Stanley Eddington
    Arthur Stanley Eddington was a pioneering 20th-century British astrophysicist and mathematician known for his work on general relativity, stellar structure, and the 1919 eclipse expedition that confirmed Einstein’s theory of gravity.
  • 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: Fred Hoyle
Triple: [Edwin E. Salpeter, coAuthor, Fred Hoyle]
Generated description
Fred Hoyle was a British astronomer and cosmologist best known for his work on stellar nucleosynthesis and for coining the term "Big Bang," which he actually opposed as a theory.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fred Hoyle
Target entity description: Fred Hoyle was a British astronomer and cosmologist best known for his work on stellar nucleosynthesis and for coining the term "Big Bang," which he actually opposed as a theory.
  • A. George Ellis
    George Ellis was a figure significant enough in local or regional history that the city of Ellis, Kansas, was named in his honor, likely for his contributions to the area's development or founding.
  • B. George Ellis
    George Ellis is a South African cosmologist renowned for his work on general relativity and the large-scale structure of the universe, as well as for his collaborations with Stephen Hawking.
  • C. William A. Fowler
    William A. Fowler was an American nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the nuclear reactions that power stars and synthesize the chemical elements.
  • D. Henry Norris Russell
    Henry Norris Russell was an influential American astronomer best known for co-developing the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram, a fundamental tool in stellar astrophysics.
  • E. Arthur Stanley Eddington
    Arthur Stanley Eddington was a pioneering 20th-century British astrophysicist and mathematician known for his work on general relativity, stellar structure, and the 1919 eclipse expedition that confirmed Einstein’s theory of gravity.
  • 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_69a88b0a9f248190bcff941463d8f65a completed March 4, 2026, 7:42 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc5ddf00081909acb47cbd9a5f20e completed March 7, 2026, 6:29 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae8954a804819092c716582f23af14 completed March 9, 2026, 8:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae8b188f18819088eaa3866485191a completed March 9, 2026, 8:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae8b83efd48190a832032775803919 completed March 9, 2026, 8:57 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:49 p.m.