Triple

T353868
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Queen's College, Oxford E7501 entity
Predicate alumnus P51 FINISHED
Object Edmund Halley
Edmund Halley was an English astronomer and mathematician best known for calculating the orbit of the periodic comet that now bears his name, Halley’s Comet.
E44724 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: Edmund Halley | Statement: [The Queen's College, Oxford, alumnus, Edmund Halley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edmund Halley
Context triple: [The Queen's College, Oxford, alumnus, Edmund Halley]
  • A. Henry Oldenburg
    Henry Oldenburg was a 17th-century German-born philosopher and diplomat who became the first Secretary of the Royal Society and a pioneering figure in early scientific communication.
  • B. George Stokes
    George Stokes was a 19th-century Irish mathematician and physicist renowned for his foundational work in fluid dynamics, optics, and mathematical physics.
  • C. Isaac Newton
    Isaac Newton was a 17th-century English mathematician, physicist, and natural philosopher whose formulation of classical mechanics and universal gravitation laid the foundations of modern science.
  • D. Robert Bylot
    Robert Bylot was a 17th-century English Arctic explorer and navigator known for his key role in early voyages searching for the Northwest Passage.
  • E. George Howard Darwin
    George Howard Darwin was a British astronomer and mathematician known for his work on tidal theory and the evolution of the Earth–Moon system.
  • 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: Edmund Halley
Triple: [The Queen's College, Oxford, alumnus, Edmund Halley]
Generated description
Edmund Halley was an English astronomer and mathematician best known for calculating the orbit of the periodic comet that now bears his name, Halley’s Comet.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edmund Halley
Target entity description: Edmund Halley was an English astronomer and mathematician best known for calculating the orbit of the periodic comet that now bears his name, Halley’s Comet.
  • A. Henry Oldenburg
    Henry Oldenburg was a 17th-century German-born philosopher and diplomat who became the first Secretary of the Royal Society and a pioneering figure in early scientific communication.
  • B. George Stokes
    George Stokes was a 19th-century Irish mathematician and physicist renowned for his foundational work in fluid dynamics, optics, and mathematical physics.
  • C. Isaac Newton
    Isaac Newton was a 17th-century English mathematician, physicist, and natural philosopher whose formulation of classical mechanics and universal gravitation laid the foundations of modern science.
  • D. Robert Bylot
    Robert Bylot was a 17th-century English Arctic explorer and navigator known for his key role in early voyages searching for the Northwest Passage.
  • E. George Howard Darwin
    George Howard Darwin was a British astronomer and mathematician known for his work on tidal theory and the evolution of the Earth–Moon system.
  • 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_69a2e7e696948190bebc966535995e45 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2eb80f524819093f4c2c18c3d615f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3dd36d4b481908410ef0989564c8d completed March 1, 2026, 6:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3dd9cc8cc819094c6e99e32e3e46a completed March 1, 2026, 6:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3de36a2088190b51f4dbd6bb1e620 completed March 1, 2026, 6:35 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.