Triple

T4814356
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jan Oort E107149 entity
Predicate notableStudent P4838 FINISHED
Object Maarten Schmidt
Maarten Schmidt was a Dutch astronomer best known for his pioneering work on quasars and for developing the Schmidt law relating gas density to star formation in galaxies.
E472750 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: Maarten Schmidt | Statement: [Jan Oort, notableStudent, Maarten Schmidt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maarten Schmidt
Context triple: [Jan Oort, notableStudent, Maarten Schmidt]
  • A. Allan R. Sandage
    Allan R. Sandage was a prominent American astronomer known for his pioneering work on the expansion rate of the universe, the cosmic distance scale, and the age of the cosmos.
  • B. Vera Rubin
    Vera Rubin was an American astronomer whose pioneering work on galaxy rotation curves provided key evidence for the existence of dark matter.
  • C. Milton Humason
    Milton Humason was an American astronomer who, despite lacking formal education, became a key collaborator of Edwin Hubble and made crucial spectroscopic observations that helped establish the evidence for the expanding universe.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Geoffrey Burbidge
    Geoffrey Burbidge was a British-American astrophysicist best known for his pioneering work on stellar nucleosynthesis and the origin of the chemical elements in the universe.
  • 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: Maarten Schmidt
Triple: [Jan Oort, notableStudent, Maarten Schmidt]
Generated description
Maarten Schmidt was a Dutch astronomer best known for his pioneering work on quasars and for developing the Schmidt law relating gas density to star formation in galaxies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maarten Schmidt
Target entity description: Maarten Schmidt was a Dutch astronomer best known for his pioneering work on quasars and for developing the Schmidt law relating gas density to star formation in galaxies.
  • A. Allan R. Sandage
    Allan R. Sandage was a prominent American astronomer known for his pioneering work on the expansion rate of the universe, the cosmic distance scale, and the age of the cosmos.
  • B. Vera Rubin
    Vera Rubin was an American astronomer whose pioneering work on galaxy rotation curves provided key evidence for the existence of dark matter.
  • C. Milton Humason
    Milton Humason was an American astronomer who, despite lacking formal education, became a key collaborator of Edwin Hubble and made crucial spectroscopic observations that helped establish the evidence for the expanding universe.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Geoffrey Burbidge
    Geoffrey Burbidge was a British-American astrophysicist best known for his pioneering work on stellar nucleosynthesis and the origin of the chemical elements in the universe.
  • 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_69bd43f779448190b92885cb70abb6c2 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6c80ce048190a7c9f14431d7c62f completed March 20, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be4db1b67c81908272d8b7e7e4e1f1 completed March 21, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be4e9378f08190b9fb3745ff2ea964 completed March 21, 2026, 7:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be4ef7c3e081909c74a573058810f0 completed March 21, 2026, 7:55 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:23 p.m.