Triple

T2916162
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jean-Sylvain Bailly E78610 entity
Predicate collaboratedWith P435 FINISHED
Object Nicolas de Lacaille
Nicolas de Lacaille was an 18th-century French astronomer renowned for his extensive southern sky surveys and for introducing many of the modern constellations.
 E310000 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: Nicolas de Lacaille | Statement: [Jean-Sylvain Bailly, collaboratedWith, Nicolas de Lacaille]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Nicolas de Lacaille
Context triple: [Jean-Sylvain Bailly, collaboratedWith, Nicolas de Lacaille]
  • A. Georg de Lalande
    Georg de Lalande was a German architect active in the early 20th century, known for designing prominent public and governmental buildings in East Asia.
  • B. Friedrich Bessel
    Friedrich Bessel was a German astronomer and mathematician renowned for his precise measurements of stellar positions and distances, including the first reliable determination of a star’s parallax.
  • C. Charles Messier
    Charles Messier was an 18th-century French astronomer best known for compiling the Messier catalog of nebulae and star clusters to help comet hunters avoid confusing them with comets.
  • D. Anton von Zach
    Anton von Zach was an Austrian general and staff officer best known for his role in the Napoleonic Wars, particularly during the Italian campaigns.
  • E. Johann Heinrich Lambert
    Johann Heinrich Lambert was an 18th-century German-Swiss polymath of the Enlightenment, renowned for his pioneering work in mathematics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy, including the first rigorous proof of the irrationality of π.
  • 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: Nicolas de Lacaille
Triple: [Jean-Sylvain Bailly, collaboratedWith, Nicolas de Lacaille]
Generated description
Nicolas de Lacaille was an 18th-century French astronomer renowned for his extensive southern sky surveys and for introducing many of the modern constellations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Nicolas de Lacaille
Target entity description: Nicolas de Lacaille was an 18th-century French astronomer renowned for his extensive southern sky surveys and for introducing many of the modern constellations.
  • A. Georg de Lalande
    Georg de Lalande was a German architect active in the early 20th century, known for designing prominent public and governmental buildings in East Asia.
  • B. Friedrich Bessel
    Friedrich Bessel was a German astronomer and mathematician renowned for his precise measurements of stellar positions and distances, including the first reliable determination of a star’s parallax.
  • C. Charles Messier
    Charles Messier was an 18th-century French astronomer best known for compiling the Messier catalog of nebulae and star clusters to help comet hunters avoid confusing them with comets.
  • D. Anton von Zach
    Anton von Zach was an Austrian general and staff officer best known for his role in the Napoleonic Wars, particularly during the Italian campaigns.
  • E. Johann Heinrich Lambert
    Johann Heinrich Lambert was an 18th-century German-Swiss polymath of the Enlightenment, renowned for his pioneering work in mathematics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy, including the first rigorous proof of the irrationality of π.
  • 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_69ad8b0c2ad081909ff87050ae542bb9 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad96a1a9f8819095fe3198e9d3f6b0 completed March 8, 2026, 3:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b0562847488190a0d6b7de99796cd9 completed March 10, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b06309895881908e9fdd9fa31aed03 completed March 10, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b06371e5fc8190a9945d9ac005365a completed March 10, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:53 p.m.