Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn E473954 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Kapteyn Selected Areas survey
The Kapteyn Selected Areas survey is an early 20th-century astronomical project that systematically mapped and studied the distribution and motions of stars in carefully chosen regions of the sky to investigate the structure of the Milky Way.
E1392261 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: Kapteyn Selected Areas survey | Statement: [Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, notableWork, Kapteyn Selected Areas survey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kapteyn Selected Areas survey
Context triple: [Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, notableWork, Kapteyn Selected Areas survey]
  • A. Cape Photographic Durchmusterung
    The Cape Photographic Durchmusterung is a major late-19th-century photographic star catalog that systematically surveyed the southern sky and significantly expanded knowledge of southern hemisphere stars.
  • B. Palomar Observatory Sky Survey
    The Palomar Observatory Sky Survey is a landmark mid-20th-century photographic mapping of the night sky that produced some of the most widely used astronomical reference images for research and discovery.
  • C. Garching-Bonn Deep Survey
    The Garching-Bonn Deep Survey is an astronomical deep-imaging project designed to study distant galaxies and large-scale cosmic structures using wide-field observations.
  • D. VISTA Hemisphere Survey
    The VISTA Hemisphere Survey is a large-scale near-infrared sky survey using the VISTA telescope to map the entire southern celestial hemisphere for studies of Galactic structure, nearby stars, and distant galaxies.
  • E. Carte du Ciel project
    The Carte du Ciel project was a late 19th- and early 20th-century international astronomical initiative to create a comprehensive photographic map and catalog of the entire night sky.
  • 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: Kapteyn Selected Areas survey
Triple: [Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, notableWork, Kapteyn Selected Areas survey]
Generated description
The Kapteyn Selected Areas survey is an early 20th-century astronomical project that systematically mapped and studied the distribution and motions of stars in carefully chosen regions of the sky to investigate the structure of the Milky Way.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kapteyn Selected Areas survey
Target entity description: The Kapteyn Selected Areas survey is an early 20th-century astronomical project that systematically mapped and studied the distribution and motions of stars in carefully chosen regions of the sky to investigate the structure of the Milky Way.
  • A. Cape Photographic Durchmusterung
    The Cape Photographic Durchmusterung is a major late-19th-century photographic star catalog that systematically surveyed the southern sky and significantly expanded knowledge of southern hemisphere stars.
  • B. Palomar Observatory Sky Survey
    The Palomar Observatory Sky Survey is a landmark mid-20th-century photographic mapping of the night sky that produced some of the most widely used astronomical reference images for research and discovery.
  • C. Garching-Bonn Deep Survey
    The Garching-Bonn Deep Survey is an astronomical deep-imaging project designed to study distant galaxies and large-scale cosmic structures using wide-field observations.
  • D. VISTA Hemisphere Survey
    The VISTA Hemisphere Survey is a large-scale near-infrared sky survey using the VISTA telescope to map the entire southern celestial hemisphere for studies of Galactic structure, nearby stars, and distant galaxies.
  • E. Carte du Ciel project
    The Carte du Ciel project was a late 19th- and early 20th-century international astronomical initiative to create a comprehensive photographic map and catalog of the entire night sky.
  • 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_69d8e517ebd48190979ee76723bcfadf completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6515d138c8190a4c4d112ed5756a3 completed April 20, 2026, 4:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07b4f70bd08190b3df6e94404c23ff completed May 16, 2026, 12:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07b5c7a0348190b06f5300c89f0548 completed May 16, 2026, 12:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07b655722c8190be1b30d1e276c580 completed May 16, 2026, 12:12 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:47 p.m.