Triple

T22607460
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Phantasmion E566598 entity
Predicate publisher P29 FINISHED
Object William Pickering
William Pickering was a 19th-century English publisher and bookseller renowned for his finely produced literary and scholarly editions, which helped elevate the standards of Victorian book design and printing.
E1545914 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 Pickering | Statement: [Phantasmion, publisher, William Pickering]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Pickering
Context triple: [Phantasmion, publisher, William Pickering]
  • A. William Henry Pickering
    William Henry Pickering was an American astronomer known for his discoveries of planetary satellites and contributions to lunar and planetary observation.
  • B. Charles L. Draper
    Charles L. Draper was a notable figure in natural history whose contributions were significant enough that a major natural history museum was named in his honor.
  • C. Allan Nunn May
    Allan Nunn May was a British physicist who became one of the first and most significant atomic spies, passing nuclear secrets from the UK to the Soviet Union during and after World War II.
  • D. Arthur A. Shurcliff
    Arthur A. Shurcliff was a prominent early 20th-century American landscape architect known for his work on major estates and historic restoration projects, including significant contributions to Colonial Revival design.
  • E. James A. Van Allen
    James A. Van Allen was an American space scientist best known for discovering the Earth's radiation belts, now called the Van Allen belts, and for his pioneering work in early space exploration missions.
  • 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 Pickering
Triple: [Phantasmion, publisher, William Pickering]
Generated description
William Pickering was a 19th-century English publisher and bookseller renowned for his finely produced literary and scholarly editions, which helped elevate the standards of Victorian book design and printing.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Pickering
Target entity description: William Pickering was a 19th-century English publisher and bookseller renowned for his finely produced literary and scholarly editions, which helped elevate the standards of Victorian book design and printing.
  • A. William Henry Pickering
    William Henry Pickering was an American astronomer known for his discoveries of planetary satellites and contributions to lunar and planetary observation.
  • B. Charles L. Draper
    Charles L. Draper was a notable figure in natural history whose contributions were significant enough that a major natural history museum was named in his honor.
  • C. Allan Nunn May
    Allan Nunn May was a British physicist who became one of the first and most significant atomic spies, passing nuclear secrets from the UK to the Soviet Union during and after World War II.
  • D. Arthur A. Shurcliff
    Arthur A. Shurcliff was a prominent early 20th-century American landscape architect known for his work on major estates and historic restoration projects, including significant contributions to Colonial Revival design.
  • E. James A. Van Allen
    James A. Van Allen was an American space scientist best known for discovering the Earth's radiation belts, now called the Van Allen belts, and for his pioneering work in early space exploration missions.
  • 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_69e245884860819081046ce07d5872c4 completed April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f167e75658819089153eab7563540c completed April 29, 2026, 2:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0b4df957fc8190a4bb951dde3765a4 completed May 18, 2026, 5:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0b50387eb08190ac727f02113aabfe completed May 18, 2026, 5:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0b5081eff08190b4d626bf7469e50c completed May 18, 2026, 5:46 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 2:55 p.m.