Triple

T3359276
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lalande Prize E70679 entity
Predicate hasNotableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object 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.
E353107 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: Norman Robert Pogson | Statement: [Lalande Prize, hasNotableRecipient, Norman Robert Pogson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norman Robert Pogson
Context triple: [Lalande Prize, hasNotableRecipient, Norman Robert Pogson]
  • A. William Lassell
    William Lassell was a 19th-century English astronomer renowned for his telescopic discoveries of several moons of the outer planets, including Neptune's moon Triton and Uranus's moon Ariel.
  • B. John Couch Adams
    John Couch Adams was a 19th-century English mathematician and astronomer best known for his role in the prediction of the planet Neptune.
  • C. William Whewell
    William Whewell was a 19th-century English polymath, philosopher, and historian of science known for coining key scientific terms and shaping the philosophy of scientific method.
  • D. Sir William Parsons
    Sir William Parsons was an English-born administrator who served as Lord Justice of Ireland and played a central role in the government’s response to the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
  • E. Frank Watson Dyson
    Frank Watson Dyson was a prominent British astronomer best known for his role in organizing the 1919 solar eclipse expeditions that provided one of the first major confirmations of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
  • 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: Norman Robert Pogson
Triple: [Lalande Prize, hasNotableRecipient, Norman Robert Pogson]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norman Robert Pogson
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. William Lassell
    William Lassell was a 19th-century English astronomer renowned for his telescopic discoveries of several moons of the outer planets, including Neptune's moon Triton and Uranus's moon Ariel.
  • B. John Couch Adams
    John Couch Adams was a 19th-century English mathematician and astronomer best known for his role in the prediction of the planet Neptune.
  • C. William Whewell
    William Whewell was a 19th-century English polymath, philosopher, and historian of science known for coining key scientific terms and shaping the philosophy of scientific method.
  • D. Sir William Parsons
    Sir William Parsons was an English-born administrator who served as Lord Justice of Ireland and played a central role in the government’s response to the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
  • E. Frank Watson Dyson
    Frank Watson Dyson was a prominent British astronomer best known for his role in organizing the 1919 solar eclipse expeditions that provided one of the first major confirmations of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
  • 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_69ad85a660c48190998489309a3b4869 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb266c4a881908aded39ccb8f43b2 completed March 8, 2026, 5:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b3342fed748190814da1b968015d43 completed March 12, 2026, 9:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b337ff20fc8190ab838866f14a36d4 completed March 12, 2026, 10:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b338ce8fb48190a6983a72d4cc1b5d completed March 12, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:13 p.m.