Triple
T3588052
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Royal Astronomical Society |
E75958
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedBy |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John Herschel |
E293603
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: John Herschel | Statement: [Royal Astronomical Society, foundedBy, John Herschel]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Herschel Context triple: [Royal Astronomical Society, foundedBy, John Herschel]
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A.
John Herschel
chosen
John Herschel was a 19th-century English astronomer, mathematician, and polymath known for his extensive cataloging of stars and nebulae and for making significant contributions to photography and the study of light.
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B.
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.
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C.
William Cranch Bond
William Cranch Bond was a 19th-century American astronomer and the first director of the Harvard College Observatory, noted for his pioneering observational work and several important celestial discoveries.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ad85d6dc3c8190b491b79b83e25461 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adc13a11608190a23d76efc1b50e3c |
completed | March 8, 2026, 6:34 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b40304a2e08190bcf25ddaf2bc5a2a |
completed | March 13, 2026, 12:28 p.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:22 p.m.