Triple

T4943435
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject SN 1987A E110990 entity
Predicate discoveredBy P412 FINISHED
Object Ian Shelton
Ian Shelton is a Canadian astronomer best known for first identifying the supernova SN 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
E489481 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: Ian Shelton | Statement: [SN 1987A, discoveredBy, Ian Shelton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ian Shelton
Context triple: [SN 1987A, discoveredBy, Ian Shelton]
  • A. Matt Hulett
    Matt Hulett is an American technology and business executive known for leading and scaling multiple software and digital media companies.
  • B. Brian Routh
    Brian Routh was a British performance artist and musician best known as one half of the avant-garde comedy and performance duo The Kipper Kids.
  • C. Sean Akins
    Sean Akins is a television producer and creative director best known for helping develop and shape Cartoon Network’s influential Toonami programming block.
  • D. Al Thornton
    Al Thornton is an American former professional basketball player and standout forward at Florida State University who went on to play in the NBA after being drafted by the Los Angeles Clippers.
  • E. Jeff Ruland
    Jeff Ruland is a former American professional basketball player and coach best known for his All-Star NBA career as a center in the 1980s, primarily with the Washington Bullets.
  • 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: Ian Shelton
Triple: [SN 1987A, discoveredBy, Ian Shelton]
Generated description
Ian Shelton is a Canadian astronomer best known for first identifying the supernova SN 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ian Shelton
Target entity description: Ian Shelton is a Canadian astronomer best known for first identifying the supernova SN 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
  • A. Matt Hulett
    Matt Hulett is an American technology and business executive known for leading and scaling multiple software and digital media companies.
  • B. Brian Routh
    Brian Routh was a British performance artist and musician best known as one half of the avant-garde comedy and performance duo The Kipper Kids.
  • C. Sean Akins
    Sean Akins is a television producer and creative director best known for helping develop and shape Cartoon Network’s influential Toonami programming block.
  • D. Al Thornton
    Al Thornton is an American former professional basketball player and standout forward at Florida State University who went on to play in the NBA after being drafted by the Los Angeles Clippers.
  • E. Jeff Ruland
    Jeff Ruland is a former American professional basketball player and coach best known for his All-Star NBA career as a center in the 1980s, primarily with the Washington Bullets.
  • 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_69bd441721cc819085c7e33fe0876818 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd70a7650c8190b046b65072fd8eae completed March 20, 2026, 4:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bea46996c481908ec7b783ac9a20b1 completed March 21, 2026, 2 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bea4f9487c8190a4b16dabd6cb7117 completed March 21, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bea5654dc08190b52b633167cdd5bb completed March 21, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:31 p.m.