Triple

T4566480
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject SN 1572 E121921 entity
Predicate observedBy P1165 FINISHED
Object Thomas Digges
Thomas Digges was a 16th-century English astronomer and mathematician known for promoting the Copernican heliocentric model and proposing an infinite universe filled with stars.
E453403 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: Thomas Digges | Statement: [SN 1572, observedBy, Thomas Digges]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Digges
Context triple: [SN 1572, observedBy, Thomas Digges]
  • A. John Flamsteed
    John Flamsteed was a 17th–18th century English astronomer best known as the first Astronomer Royal and for his foundational star cataloguing work.
  • B. John Dee
    John Dee was a 16th-century English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and occult philosopher who served as an advisor to Queen Elizabeth I and became famous for his studies of alchemy and attempts to communicate with angels.
  • C. Henry Savile
    Henry Savile was an English scholar and classical translator best known for his role in the King James Bible translation and his work as Warden of Merton College, Oxford.
  • D. Tycho Brahe
    Tycho Brahe was a Danish nobleman and astronomer whose precise naked-eye observations of the heavens greatly improved astronomical data and paved the way for Kepler’s laws of planetary motion.
  • E. Jørgen Brahe
    Jørgen Brahe was a Danish nobleman and foster father of the astronomer Tycho Brahe, playing a key role in raising and educating him.
  • 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: Thomas Digges
Triple: [SN 1572, observedBy, Thomas Digges]
Generated description
Thomas Digges was a 16th-century English astronomer and mathematician known for promoting the Copernican heliocentric model and proposing an infinite universe filled with stars.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Digges
Target entity description: Thomas Digges was a 16th-century English astronomer and mathematician known for promoting the Copernican heliocentric model and proposing an infinite universe filled with stars.
  • A. John Flamsteed
    John Flamsteed was a 17th–18th century English astronomer best known as the first Astronomer Royal and for his foundational star cataloguing work.
  • B. John Dee
    John Dee was a 16th-century English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and occult philosopher who served as an advisor to Queen Elizabeth I and became famous for his studies of alchemy and attempts to communicate with angels.
  • C. Henry Savile
    Henry Savile was an English scholar and classical translator best known for his role in the King James Bible translation and his work as Warden of Merton College, Oxford.
  • D. Tycho Brahe
    Tycho Brahe was a Danish nobleman and astronomer whose precise naked-eye observations of the heavens greatly improved astronomical data and paved the way for Kepler’s laws of planetary motion.
  • E. Jørgen Brahe
    Jørgen Brahe was a Danish nobleman and foster father of the astronomer Tycho Brahe, playing a key role in raising and educating him.
  • 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_69bd463f156881908a99aca69c5721ac completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd589e35808190aa609bb04b128dbe completed March 20, 2026, 2:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdd3b560a08190a485e9ec45e0f0f8 completed March 20, 2026, 11:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdd467cd0c8190a92938a69211f558 completed March 20, 2026, 11:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdd4c432dc81909911de3d2943e3d5 completed March 20, 2026, 11:14 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:09 p.m.