Triple

T5645263
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Herschel E124368 entity
Predicate sibling P363 FINISHED
Object Caroline Herschel
Caroline Herschel was a pioneering German-born British astronomer renowned for her discovery of several comets and for being one of the first women to receive recognition in the field of astronomy.
E539633 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: Caroline Herschel | Statement: [William Herschel, sibling, Caroline Herschel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Caroline Herschel
Context triple: [William Herschel, sibling, Caroline Herschel]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Williamina Fleming
    Williamina Fleming was a pioneering Scottish-American astronomer who made major contributions to stellar classification and the discovery of numerous astronomical objects while working at the Harvard College Observatory.
  • D. William Herschel
    William Herschel was an 18th-century British-German astronomer and composer best known for discovering the planet Uranus and pioneering deep-sky surveys of the night sky.
  • E. Mary Georgina Newton
    Mary Georgina Newton was the wife of pioneering nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford and a supportive partner throughout his scientific career.
  • 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: Caroline Herschel
Triple: [William Herschel, sibling, Caroline Herschel]
Generated description
Caroline Herschel was a pioneering German-born British astronomer renowned for her discovery of several comets and for being one of the first women to receive recognition in the field of astronomy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Caroline Herschel
Target entity description: Caroline Herschel was a pioneering German-born British astronomer renowned for her discovery of several comets and for being one of the first women to receive recognition in the field of astronomy.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Williamina Fleming
    Williamina Fleming was a pioneering Scottish-American astronomer who made major contributions to stellar classification and the discovery of numerous astronomical objects while working at the Harvard College Observatory.
  • D. William Herschel
    William Herschel was an 18th-century British-German astronomer and composer best known for discovering the planet Uranus and pioneering deep-sky surveys of the night sky.
  • E. Mary Georgina Newton
    Mary Georgina Newton was the wife of pioneering nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford and a supportive partner throughout his scientific career.
  • 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_69c05a1d7af8819092e28ce9fb14d1f1 completed March 22, 2026, 9:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c05cabceac819095c4a114220efb1a completed March 22, 2026, 9:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c05d2b67888190bc89e4cbd384c15f completed March 22, 2026, 9:20 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:41 p.m.