Triple

T547105
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nevil Maskelyne E12756 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Astronomer Royal
The Astronomer Royal is a senior official title in the United Kingdom historically given to the leading royal astronomer responsible for advancing astronomical research and advising the Crown.
E68251 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: Astronomer Royal | Statement: [Nevil Maskelyne, positionHeld, Astronomer Royal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Astronomer Royal
Context triple: [Nevil Maskelyne, positionHeld, Astronomer Royal]
  • A. President of the Royal Society
    The President of the Royal Society is the elected head of the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences, overseeing its scientific leadership, governance, and public representation.
  • B. Secretary of the Board of Longitude
    The Secretary of the Board of Longitude was an official role in the British government responsible for administering and recording the work of the Board, which oversaw efforts to solve the problem of determining longitude at sea.
  • C. Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
    The Lucasian Professor of Mathematics is a prestigious endowed chair in mathematics at the University of Cambridge, historically held by some of the world's most influential scientists.
  • D. Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford
    The Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford is a prestigious endowed chair in astronomy held by leading scholars, historically including figures such as Sir Christopher Wren.
  • E. Chancellor of the Order of the Garter
    The Chancellor of the Order of the Garter is a senior ceremonial officer responsible for administrative and representational duties within England’s oldest and most prestigious order of chivalry.
  • 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: Astronomer Royal
Triple: [Nevil Maskelyne, positionHeld, Astronomer Royal]
Generated description
The Astronomer Royal is a senior official title in the United Kingdom historically given to the leading royal astronomer responsible for advancing astronomical research and advising the Crown.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Astronomer Royal
Target entity description: The Astronomer Royal is a senior official title in the United Kingdom historically given to the leading royal astronomer responsible for advancing astronomical research and advising the Crown.
  • A. President of the Royal Society
    The President of the Royal Society is the elected head of the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences, overseeing its scientific leadership, governance, and public representation.
  • B. Secretary of the Board of Longitude
    The Secretary of the Board of Longitude was an official role in the British government responsible for administering and recording the work of the Board, which oversaw efforts to solve the problem of determining longitude at sea.
  • C. Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
    The Lucasian Professor of Mathematics is a prestigious endowed chair in mathematics at the University of Cambridge, historically held by some of the world's most influential scientists.
  • D. Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford
    The Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford is a prestigious endowed chair in astronomy held by leading scholars, historically including figures such as Sir Christopher Wren.
  • E. Chancellor of the Order of the Garter
    The Chancellor of the Order of the Garter is a senior ceremonial officer responsible for administrative and representational duties within England’s oldest and most prestigious order of chivalry.
  • 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_69a49334226c81908b0ea1689ef6aa3f completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a498e2e8c88190a66d759ed3094e18 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4d044b03c8190b7c87b0da05e4d6e completed March 1, 2026, 11:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4d0daca588190a6a1865ae3d12c71 completed March 1, 2026, 11:50 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4d18801248190afedd4ea5f718bd7 completed March 1, 2026, 11:53 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.