Triple

T18776072
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Stephenson 2-18 E459136 entity
Predicate discoveredBy P412 FINISHED
Object Charles Bruce Stephenson
Charles Bruce Stephenson was an American astronomer known for his work on variable stars and stellar catalogs.
E1400749 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: Charles Bruce Stephenson | Statement: [Stephenson 2-18, discoveredBy, Charles Bruce Stephenson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Bruce Stephenson
Context triple: [Stephenson 2-18, discoveredBy, Charles Bruce Stephenson]
  • A. Henry William Stisted
    Henry William Stisted was a British army officer and colonial administrator who became the first Lieutenant Governor of Ontario after Canadian Confederation.
  • B. James Ewing
    James Ewing was a pioneering American pathologist and oncologist whose work helped establish cancer research and treatment as a distinct medical discipline.
  • C. James Ewing
    James Ewing was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from Pennsylvania who served as a militia general and later as the state's vice president (lieutenant governor).
  • D. John D. Guthridge
    John D. Guthridge was an editor associated with the publication *The Rebel*, likely involved in shaping its political or cultural commentary.
  • E. William Buell Richards
    William Buell Richards was a 19th-century Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician who became the inaugural head of Canada’s Supreme Court.
  • 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: Charles Bruce Stephenson
Triple: [Stephenson 2-18, discoveredBy, Charles Bruce Stephenson]
Generated description
Charles Bruce Stephenson was an American astronomer known for his work on variable stars and stellar catalogs.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Bruce Stephenson
Target entity description: Charles Bruce Stephenson was an American astronomer known for his work on variable stars and stellar catalogs.
  • A. Henry William Stisted
    Henry William Stisted was a British army officer and colonial administrator who became the first Lieutenant Governor of Ontario after Canadian Confederation.
  • B. James Ewing
    James Ewing was a pioneering American pathologist and oncologist whose work helped establish cancer research and treatment as a distinct medical discipline.
  • C. James Ewing
    James Ewing was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from Pennsylvania who served as a militia general and later as the state's vice president (lieutenant governor).
  • D. John D. Guthridge
    John D. Guthridge was an editor associated with the publication *The Rebel*, likely involved in shaping its political or cultural commentary.
  • E. William Buell Richards
    William Buell Richards was a 19th-century Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician who became the inaugural head of Canada’s Supreme Court.
  • 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_69d8d396f54c8190ba49db31e8743842 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5933b912481908bfd97216eacb257 completed April 20, 2026, 2:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07ea287a948190a7578138ceb9724f completed May 16, 2026, 3:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07ecacb44881908074a946cdd78283 completed May 16, 2026, 4:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07ed0b0b208190ba0fc7bae7c2652e completed May 16, 2026, 4:05 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:52 a.m.