Triple

T13483931
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Craig Watson Medal E318443 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object James Craig Watson
James Craig Watson was a 19th-century Canadian-American astronomer known for discovering numerous asteroids and contributing significantly to observational astronomy.
E1042023 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: James Craig Watson | Statement: [James Craig Watson Medal, namedAfter, James Craig Watson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Craig Watson
Context triple: [James Craig Watson Medal, namedAfter, James Craig Watson]
  • A. William Rooke Creswell
    William Rooke Creswell was a pioneering Australian naval officer often regarded as the "father of the Royal Australian Navy" for his key role in its establishment and development.
  • B. James William Troup
    James William Troup was a Canadian steamship captain and later a prominent shipping executive known for his influential role in the development of Pacific Northwest maritime transportation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. William Maxwell Aitken
    William Maxwell Aitken, better known as Lord Beaverbrook, was a powerful Canadian-British newspaper magnate and influential political figure in early 20th-century Britain.
  • D. Rutherford Alcock
    Rutherford Alcock was a 19th-century British diplomat best known as the first British consul in Japan and for helping open the country to Western influence.
  • E. James Waite Dickson
    James Waite Dickson was the father of motion picture pioneer William Kennedy Laurie Dickson and a key early influence in his son's scientific and technical education.
  • 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: James Craig Watson
Triple: [James Craig Watson Medal, namedAfter, James Craig Watson]
Generated description
James Craig Watson was a 19th-century Canadian-American astronomer known for discovering numerous asteroids and contributing significantly to observational astronomy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Craig Watson
Target entity description: James Craig Watson was a 19th-century Canadian-American astronomer known for discovering numerous asteroids and contributing significantly to observational astronomy.
  • A. William Rooke Creswell
    William Rooke Creswell was a pioneering Australian naval officer often regarded as the "father of the Royal Australian Navy" for his key role in its establishment and development.
  • B. James William Troup
    James William Troup was a Canadian steamship captain and later a prominent shipping executive known for his influential role in the development of Pacific Northwest maritime transportation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. William Maxwell Aitken
    William Maxwell Aitken, better known as Lord Beaverbrook, was a powerful Canadian-British newspaper magnate and influential political figure in early 20th-century Britain.
  • D. Rutherford Alcock
    Rutherford Alcock was a 19th-century British diplomat best known as the first British consul in Japan and for helping open the country to Western influence.
  • E. James Waite Dickson
    James Waite Dickson was the father of motion picture pioneer William Kennedy Laurie Dickson and a key early influence in his son's scientific and technical education.
  • 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_69d806b6bfec819089222715b2e86c8e completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbaf3868ec8190a6a1803018d4f2d8 completed April 12, 2026, 2:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7463715dc8190a70a17b3ea661006 completed May 3, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f74bac36e081909dae786e14883e3c completed May 3, 2026, 1:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f74c5195188190bad111b301713426 completed May 3, 2026, 1:23 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:42 p.m.