Triple

T4617841
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject NGC 6530 E100908 entity
Predicate discoveredBy P412 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: [NGC 6530, discoveredBy, John Herschel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Herschel
Context triple: [NGC 6530, discoveredBy, John Herschel]
  • 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.
  • B. Francis Baily
    Francis Baily was a prominent 19th-century English astronomer best known for his detailed observations of solar eclipses, including the phenomenon now called "Baily's beads."
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69bd43cf363c819087fd5ab441b4a3f4 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd59e247448190ad92f194cb1127c5 completed March 20, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdfa916f4c8190a53bb37ff46ed0b5 completed March 21, 2026, 1:55 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:12 p.m.