Triple

T5721036
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harvard College Observatory E126144 entity
Predicate notablePerson P304 FINISHED
Object Edward Charles Pickering E24586 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: Edward Charles Pickering | Statement: [Harvard College Observatory, notablePerson, Edward Charles Pickering]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Edward Charles Pickering
Context triple: [Harvard College Observatory, notablePerson, Edward Charles Pickering]
  • A. Edward Charles Pickering chosen
    Edward Charles Pickering was a pioneering American astronomer and longtime director of the Harvard College Observatory, known for his major contributions to stellar spectroscopy and the classification of stars.
  • B. George Willis Ritchey
    George Willis Ritchey was an American optician and telescope designer renowned for pioneering advanced reflecting telescope technologies in the early 20th century.
  • C. James Edward Keeler
    James Edward Keeler was an American astronomer noted for his pioneering spectroscopic studies of Saturn’s rings and for his influential role in late 19th-century astrophysical research.
  • D. Edward Emerson Barnard
    Edward Emerson Barnard was an American astronomer renowned for his discoveries of comets, dark nebulae, and the high proper-motion star now known as Barnard's Star.
  • E. George Ellery Hale
    George Ellery Hale was an influential American solar astronomer and observatory builder who pioneered modern astrophysics and led the creation of several of the world’s largest telescopes.
  • 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_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_69c097ebde448190806bb5bc7a2096fc completed March 23, 2026, 1:31 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:46 p.m.