Triple

T8353929
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Coddington E196630 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Edwin Foster Coddington
Edwin Foster Coddington was an American astronomer known for his observations of comets and nebulae in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
E729368 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: Edwin Foster Coddington | Statement: [Coddington, hasNotableBearer, Edwin Foster Coddington]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edwin Foster Coddington
Context triple: [Coddington, hasNotableBearer, Edwin Foster Coddington]
  • A. Colonel Creighton
    Colonel Creighton is a British intelligence officer and scholar of Indian culture in Rudyard Kipling’s novel "Kim," serving as a key figure in the Great Game espionage network.
  • B. Sir William Ridgeway
    Sir William Ridgeway was a prominent Irish classical scholar and archaeologist known for his influential work on ancient history, numismatics, and the origins of currency and civilization.
  • C. Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward
    Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward was a Union Army officer who led the 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry during the American Civil War.
  • D. Alexander M. Patch
    Alexander M. Patch was a senior U.S. Army general in World War II, best known for commanding American forces in the Guadalcanal campaign and later the U.S. Seventh Army in Europe.
  • E. William E. Fuller
    William E. Fuller was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa in the late 19th century.
  • 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: Edwin Foster Coddington
Triple: [Coddington, hasNotableBearer, Edwin Foster Coddington]
Generated description
Edwin Foster Coddington was an American astronomer known for his observations of comets and nebulae in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edwin Foster Coddington
Target entity description: Edwin Foster Coddington was an American astronomer known for his observations of comets and nebulae in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. Colonel Creighton
    Colonel Creighton is a British intelligence officer and scholar of Indian culture in Rudyard Kipling’s novel "Kim," serving as a key figure in the Great Game espionage network.
  • B. Sir William Ridgeway
    Sir William Ridgeway was a prominent Irish classical scholar and archaeologist known for his influential work on ancient history, numismatics, and the origins of currency and civilization.
  • C. Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward
    Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward was a Union Army officer who led the 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry during the American Civil War.
  • D. Alexander M. Patch
    Alexander M. Patch was a senior U.S. Army general in World War II, best known for commanding American forces in the Guadalcanal campaign and later the U.S. Seventh Army in Europe.
  • E. William E. Fuller
    William E. Fuller was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa in the late 19th century.
  • 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_69ca82f08b348190bfb7881944bbff6f completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb804756088190a766e1a486ccfdff completed March 31, 2026, 8:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cde7b2d00c8190b7df13a0853a6374 completed April 2, 2026, 3:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cdeb2209908190a9c2b7258295561e completed April 2, 2026, 4:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cdec53410c8190b4c5e412922801dd completed April 2, 2026, 4:10 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:59 p.m.