Triple

T20989958
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject PGC 19441 E516993 entity
Predicate discoveredBy P412 FINISHED
Object N. U. Mayall
N. U. Mayall was an American astronomer known for his work in observational cosmology and for directing the Lick Observatory.
E1461702 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: N. U. Mayall | Statement: [PGC 19441, discoveredBy, N. U. Mayall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: N. U. Mayall
Context triple: [PGC 19441, discoveredBy, N. U. Mayall]
  • A. Will M. Ritchey
    Will M. Ritchey was an early 20th-century American screenwriter active during the silent film era.
  • B. Edward Emerson Barnard
    Edward Emerson Barnard was an American astronomer renowned for his discoveries of comets, dark nebulae, and the high proper-motion star now known as Barnard's Star.
  • C. Herschel Mayall
    Herschel Mayall was an American stage and silent film actor active in the early 20th century, known for character roles in numerous dramas and adventure films.
  • D. George Willis Ritchey
    George Willis Ritchey was an American optician and telescope designer renowned for pioneering advanced reflecting telescope technologies in the early 20th century.
  • E. George O. Abell
    George O. Abell was an American astronomer and educator best known for his catalog of rich clusters of galaxies and his work popularizing astronomy.
  • 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: N. U. Mayall
Triple: [PGC 19441, discoveredBy, N. U. Mayall]
Generated description
N. U. Mayall was an American astronomer known for his work in observational cosmology and for directing the Lick Observatory.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: N. U. Mayall
Target entity description: N. U. Mayall was an American astronomer known for his work in observational cosmology and for directing the Lick Observatory.
  • A. Will M. Ritchey
    Will M. Ritchey was an early 20th-century American screenwriter active during the silent film era.
  • B. Edward Emerson Barnard
    Edward Emerson Barnard was an American astronomer renowned for his discoveries of comets, dark nebulae, and the high proper-motion star now known as Barnard's Star.
  • C. Herschel Mayall
    Herschel Mayall was an American stage and silent film actor active in the early 20th century, known for character roles in numerous dramas and adventure films.
  • D. George Willis Ritchey
    George Willis Ritchey was an American optician and telescope designer renowned for pioneering advanced reflecting telescope technologies in the early 20th century.
  • E. George O. Abell
    George O. Abell was an American astronomer and educator best known for his catalog of rich clusters of galaxies and his work popularizing astronomy.
  • 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_69e0b4ffac148190bbade9f0eceb660b completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6fbe5f49c8190a5c031eceba9ebf7 completed April 21, 2026, 4:24 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a093b4debcc8190bedc21f0d64e2441 completed May 17, 2026, 3:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a093e9f92648190a332008992868ec3 completed May 17, 2026, 4:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a093f2a17e881908f672e05d38054f8 completed May 17, 2026, 4:08 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 1:49 p.m.