Triple
T9744700
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | COBE Differential Microwave Radiometer |
E236276
|
entity |
| Predicate | associatedScientist |
P12589
|
FINISHED |
| Object | George F. Smoot |
E47055
|
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: George F. Smoot | Statement: [COBE Differential Microwave Radiometer, associatedScientist, George F. Smoot]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George F. Smoot Context triple: [COBE Differential Microwave Radiometer, associatedScientist, George F. Smoot]
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A.
George F. Smoot
chosen
George F. Smoot is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist best known for his Nobel Prize–winning work on cosmic microwave background radiation, which provided strong evidence for the Big Bang theory.
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B.
John C. Mather
John C. Mather is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist, Nobel Prize laureate, and a leading scientist behind NASA’s Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) mission that helped confirm the Big Bang theory.
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C.
Saul Perlmutter
Saul Perlmutter is an American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his leadership in discovering the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant supernovae.
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D.
Adam G. Riess
Adam G. Riess is an American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant supernovae.
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E.
James Peebles
James Peebles is a Canadian-American physicist and cosmologist renowned for his pioneering work on the cosmic microwave background and the large-scale structure of the universe, for which he shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- 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_69ca84d3e24481908a476e2231123cf9 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cd9f2f8e648190ad94c940f9dc1de0 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 10:41 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d1c40b0db081908b956484e3ff44c0 |
completed | April 5, 2026, 2:08 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:23 p.m.