Triple
T6031316
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Pickering |
E134308
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasNotableSurnameBearer |
P30307
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Henry Pickering |
E257498
|
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: William Henry Pickering | Statement: [Pickering, hasNotableSurnameBearer, William Henry Pickering]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Pickering Context triple: [Pickering, hasNotableSurnameBearer, William Henry Pickering]
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A.
William Henry Pickering
chosen
William Henry Pickering was an American astronomer known for his discoveries of planetary satellites and contributions to lunar and planetary observation.
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B.
Bernard A. Newcomb
Bernard A. Newcomb is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the online brokerage firm E-Trade.
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C.
Arthur A. Shurcliff
Arthur A. Shurcliff was a prominent early 20th-century American landscape architect known for his work on major estates and historic restoration projects, including significant contributions to Colonial Revival design.
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D.
Charles Conrad Abbott
Charles Conrad Abbott was a 19th-century American archaeologist and naturalist known for his controversial claims about early human presence in North America based on artifacts from the Delaware River Valley.
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E.
James A. Van Allen
James A. Van Allen was an American space scientist best known for discovering the Earth's radiation belts, now called the Van Allen belts, and for his pioneering work in early space exploration missions.
- 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_69c0087515148190a97475d412563865 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c056af89e881909652957f94317684 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 8:53 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c16ea1595c8190926a5ed8d230ab4a |
completed | March 23, 2026, 4:47 p.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:08 p.m.