Triple

T5721030
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harvard College Observatory E126144 entity
Predicate notableProject P4 FINISHED
Object Harvard Computers program
The Harvard Computers program was a pioneering late 19th- and early 20th-century initiative that employed (mostly women) human "computers" to catalog and analyze astronomical data, leading to major advances in stellar classification and astrophysics.
E541302 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: Harvard Computers program | Statement: [Harvard College Observatory, notableProject, Harvard Computers program]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harvard Computers program
Context triple: [Harvard College Observatory, notableProject, Harvard Computers program]
  • A. Harvard Mark I computer
    The Harvard Mark I computer was an early electromechanical, general-purpose computer built during World War II that pioneered the separation of data and instruction storage later known as the Harvard architecture.
  • B. MIT Project MAC
    MIT Project MAC was a pioneering research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that advanced time-sharing, operating systems, and artificial intelligence in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • C. ENIAC project
    The ENIAC project was an early U.S. military-funded effort during World War II to develop one of the first general-purpose electronic digital computers, laying foundational concepts for modern computing.
  • D. Colossus computers
    Colossus computers were pioneering British electronic computing machines built during World War II to help decrypt high-level German communications at Bletchley Park.
  • E. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory
    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory was a leading World War II research center that pioneered radar and related microwave technologies, significantly advancing military and postwar electronics.
  • 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: Harvard Computers program
Triple: [Harvard College Observatory, notableProject, Harvard Computers program]
Generated description
The Harvard Computers program was a pioneering late 19th- and early 20th-century initiative that employed (mostly women) human "computers" to catalog and analyze astronomical data, leading to major advances in stellar classification and astrophysics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harvard Computers program
Target entity description: The Harvard Computers program was a pioneering late 19th- and early 20th-century initiative that employed (mostly women) human "computers" to catalog and analyze astronomical data, leading to major advances in stellar classification and astrophysics.
  • A. Harvard Mark I computer
    The Harvard Mark I computer was an early electromechanical, general-purpose computer built during World War II that pioneered the separation of data and instruction storage later known as the Harvard architecture.
  • B. MIT Project MAC
    MIT Project MAC was a pioneering research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that advanced time-sharing, operating systems, and artificial intelligence in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • C. ENIAC project
    The ENIAC project was an early U.S. military-funded effort during World War II to develop one of the first general-purpose electronic digital computers, laying foundational concepts for modern computing.
  • D. Colossus computers
    Colossus computers were pioneering British electronic computing machines built during World War II to help decrypt high-level German communications at Bletchley Park.
  • E. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory
    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory was a leading World War II research center that pioneered radar and related microwave technologies, significantly advancing military and postwar electronics.
  • 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_69c0082e3d548190950169847b43043b completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c024e328e08190a67e845b296e34e9 completed March 22, 2026, 5:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c05a80aefc8190b6ea35ab405ea502 completed March 22, 2026, 9:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c05c7663388190ab491144149532a4 completed March 22, 2026, 9:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c05d2ef9488190ac0111cb6a94b1d0 completed March 22, 2026, 9:20 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:46 p.m.