Triple

T461789
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject de Sitter spacetime E7354 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Willem de Sitter
Willem de Sitter was a Dutch astronomer and physicist known for his pioneering work in cosmology and general relativity, particularly his influential models of the expanding universe.
E57423 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: Willem de Sitter | Statement: [de Sitter spacetime, namedAfter, Willem de Sitter]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Willem de Sitter
Context triple: [de Sitter spacetime, namedAfter, Willem de Sitter]
  • A. Georges Lemaître
    Georges Lemaître was a Belgian priest, astronomer, and physicist best known for proposing the expanding universe and what became known as the Big Bang theory.
  • B. Johannes van der Meer
    Johannes van der Meer is another name for Johannes Vermeer, the renowned 17th-century Dutch painter celebrated for his masterful use of light and intimate domestic interior scenes.
  • C. Alexander Friedmann
    Alexander Friedmann was a Russian physicist and mathematician who first formulated the expanding-universe solutions to Einstein’s field equations, laying the foundations of modern cosmology.
  • D. Richard C. Tolman
    Richard C. Tolman was an American physicist and physical chemist known for his contributions to statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, and cosmology, as well as his scientific advisory roles during World War II.
  • E. Walter Baade
    Walter Baade was a German astronomer whose work on variable stars and the structure of the Milky Way led to a major revision of the cosmic distance scale and our understanding of the universe’s size and age.
  • 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: Willem de Sitter
Triple: [de Sitter spacetime, namedAfter, Willem de Sitter]
Generated description
Willem de Sitter was a Dutch astronomer and physicist known for his pioneering work in cosmology and general relativity, particularly his influential models of the expanding universe.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Willem de Sitter
Target entity description: Willem de Sitter was a Dutch astronomer and physicist known for his pioneering work in cosmology and general relativity, particularly his influential models of the expanding universe.
  • A. Georges Lemaître
    Georges Lemaître was a Belgian priest, astronomer, and physicist best known for proposing the expanding universe and what became known as the Big Bang theory.
  • B. Johannes van der Meer
    Johannes van der Meer is another name for Johannes Vermeer, the renowned 17th-century Dutch painter celebrated for his masterful use of light and intimate domestic interior scenes.
  • C. Alexander Friedmann
    Alexander Friedmann was a Russian physicist and mathematician who first formulated the expanding-universe solutions to Einstein’s field equations, laying the foundations of modern cosmology.
  • D. Richard C. Tolman
    Richard C. Tolman was an American physicist and physical chemist known for his contributions to statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, and cosmology, as well as his scientific advisory roles during World War II.
  • E. Walter Baade
    Walter Baade was a German astronomer whose work on variable stars and the structure of the Milky Way led to a major revision of the cosmic distance scale and our understanding of the universe’s size and age.
  • 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_69a2e7e5c5bc8190a1dc8178218fba40 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2efbed5b88190a45716812eb4cfdf completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a44f59e9348190a53c1734b95bc2c3 completed March 1, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a44fb74a4481908538fa126571f803 completed March 1, 2026, 2:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a45011a750819098d2ce4908439eb1 completed March 1, 2026, 2:41 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.