Triple

T5645262
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Herschel E124368 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Mary Pitt Herschel
Mary Pitt Herschel was the wife of astronomer William Herschel and a member of the prominent Herschel family associated with major advances in astronomy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
E537377 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: Mary Pitt Herschel | Statement: [William Herschel, spouse, Mary Pitt Herschel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Pitt Herschel
Context triple: [William Herschel, spouse, Mary Pitt Herschel]
  • A. Mary Somerville
    Mary Somerville was a 19th-century Scottish mathematician, astronomer, and science writer whose work in popularizing and synthesizing scientific knowledge helped shape early modern mathematics and influenced figures like Ada Lovelace.
  • B. Mary Georgina Newton
    Mary Georgina Newton was the wife of pioneering nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford and a supportive partner throughout his scientific career.
  • C. Margaret Maskelyne
    Margaret Maskelyne was the wife of British colonial figure Robert Clive and a member of a prominent 18th-century English family that included the Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne.
  • D. Anna Laetitia Aikin
    Anna Laetitia Aikin, better known as Anna Laetitia Barbauld, was an influential 18th-century English poet, essayist, and children's writer associated with the early Romantic movement.
  • E. Cordelia Whewell
    Cordelia Whewell was the wife of 19th-century English polymath and philosopher William Whewell, known primarily through her marriage into his intellectual and academic circle.
  • 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: Mary Pitt Herschel
Triple: [William Herschel, spouse, Mary Pitt Herschel]
Generated description
Mary Pitt Herschel was the wife of astronomer William Herschel and a member of the prominent Herschel family associated with major advances in astronomy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Pitt Herschel
Target entity description: Mary Pitt Herschel was the wife of astronomer William Herschel and a member of the prominent Herschel family associated with major advances in astronomy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • A. Mary Somerville
    Mary Somerville was a 19th-century Scottish mathematician, astronomer, and science writer whose work in popularizing and synthesizing scientific knowledge helped shape early modern mathematics and influenced figures like Ada Lovelace.
  • B. Mary Georgina Newton
    Mary Georgina Newton was the wife of pioneering nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford and a supportive partner throughout his scientific career.
  • C. Margaret Maskelyne
    Margaret Maskelyne was the wife of British colonial figure Robert Clive and a member of a prominent 18th-century English family that included the Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne.
  • D. Anna Laetitia Aikin
    Anna Laetitia Aikin, better known as Anna Laetitia Barbauld, was an influential 18th-century English poet, essayist, and children's writer associated with the early Romantic movement.
  • E. Cordelia Whewell
    Cordelia Whewell was the wife of 19th-century English polymath and philosopher William Whewell, known primarily through her marriage into his intellectual and academic circle.
  • 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_69c00824643c81909ffdb888a2d35189 completed March 22, 2026, 3:17 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c022a8eccc8190837d4705670dc25e completed March 22, 2026, 5:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c04d84e14c8190b913486cb516eee1 completed March 22, 2026, 8:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c04edbf1f081908d74d0ac29601a35 completed March 22, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c04f7e64c88190bbced2f2460c1913 completed March 22, 2026, 8:22 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:41 p.m.