Triple
T5645267
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Herschel |
E124368
|
entity |
| Predicate | positionHeld |
P8
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Royal Astronomer to George III |
E68251
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Royal Astronomer to George III | Statement: [William Herschel, positionHeld, Royal Astronomer to George III]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Royal Astronomer to George III Context triple: [William Herschel, positionHeld, Royal Astronomer to George III]
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A.
Astronomer Royal
chosen
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.
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B.
Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry
The Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry is a prestigious endowed chair at the University of Cambridge dedicated to advanced research and teaching in astronomy and mathematics.
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C.
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.
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D.
Sir George Airy
Sir George Airy was a 19th-century British astronomer and Astronomer Royal renowned for his influential work in celestial mechanics, geodesy, and timekeeping.
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E.
John Flamsteed
John Flamsteed was a 17th–18th century English astronomer best known as the first Astronomer Royal and for his foundational star cataloguing work.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:41 p.m.