Triple

T18814177
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Charles Algernon Parsons E460090 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, was a 19th-century Irish astronomer and engineer best known for building the "Leviathan of Parsonstown," the world's largest telescope of its time.
E1344870 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: William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse | Statement: [Charles Algernon Parsons, father, William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
Context triple: [Charles Algernon Parsons, father, William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse]
  • A. Sir William Parsons
    Sir William Parsons was an English-born administrator who served as Lord Justice of Ireland and played a central role in the government’s response to the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
  • B. William Lassell
    William Lassell was a 19th-century English astronomer renowned for his telescopic discoveries of several moons of the outer planets, including Neptune's moon Triton and Uranus's moon Ariel.
  • C. William Huggins
    William Huggins was a pioneering 19th-century English astronomer best known for applying spectroscopy to study the composition and motion of stars and nebulae.
  • D. Norman Robert Pogson
    Norman Robert Pogson was a 19th-century English astronomer best known for defining the modern stellar magnitude scale and for his extensive observations and discoveries of asteroids and variable stars.
  • E. Isaac Roberts
    Isaac Roberts was a pioneering 19th-century British amateur astronomer and astrophotographer known for his early deep-sky photographs that significantly advanced astronomical imaging.
  • 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: William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
Triple: [Charles Algernon Parsons, father, William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse]
Generated description
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, was a 19th-century Irish astronomer and engineer best known for building the "Leviathan of Parsonstown," the world's largest telescope of its time.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
Target entity description: William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, was a 19th-century Irish astronomer and engineer best known for building the "Leviathan of Parsonstown," the world's largest telescope of its time.
  • A. Sir William Parsons
    Sir William Parsons was an English-born administrator who served as Lord Justice of Ireland and played a central role in the government’s response to the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
  • B. William Lassell
    William Lassell was a 19th-century English astronomer renowned for his telescopic discoveries of several moons of the outer planets, including Neptune's moon Triton and Uranus's moon Ariel.
  • C. William Huggins
    William Huggins was a pioneering 19th-century English astronomer best known for applying spectroscopy to study the composition and motion of stars and nebulae.
  • D. Norman Robert Pogson
    Norman Robert Pogson was a 19th-century English astronomer best known for defining the modern stellar magnitude scale and for his extensive observations and discoveries of asteroids and variable stars.
  • E. Isaac Roberts
    Isaac Roberts was a pioneering 19th-century British amateur astronomer and astrophotographer known for his early deep-sky photographs that significantly advanced astronomical imaging.
  • 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_69d8d398c7d4819091cb2f7e48948aeb completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5a3df2d3881909b336d813bbfd0aa completed April 20, 2026, 3:56 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a055bc5fb2c8190ae2fa1727427fd8c completed May 14, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a055ff5103881908cc6f21428ea5c23 completed May 14, 2026, 5:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0563db346481909fbdcb2e80ea0fcf completed May 14, 2026, 5:55 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:53 a.m.