Triple

T23114060
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Observatoire Royal de Belgique E576400 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Adolphe Quetelet
Adolphe Quetelet was a 19th-century Belgian astronomer, statistician, and sociologist known for pioneering social statistics and introducing the concept of the "average man" as well as the body mass index (BMI).
E1570702 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: Adolphe Quetelet | Statement: [Observatoire Royal de Belgique, foundedBy, Adolphe Quetelet]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Adolphe Quetelet
Context triple: [Observatoire Royal de Belgique, foundedBy, Adolphe Quetelet]
  • A. Christophorus Henricus Didericus Buys Ballot
    Christophorus Henricus Didericus Buys Ballot was a 19th-century Dutch meteorologist and physicist best known for formulating Buys Ballot's law relating wind direction to atmospheric pressure.
  • B. Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe
    Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe was an 18th-century French neoclassical architect best known for his influential work in Saint Petersburg, where he helped shape Russian imperial architecture.
  • C. Auguste Comte
    Auguste Comte was a 19th-century French philosopher who founded positivism and is often regarded as the father of sociology.
  • D. Frédéric Le Play
    Frédéric Le Play was a 19th-century French engineer, sociologist, and social reformer known for his pioneering empirical studies of working-class family budgets and his influence on social science and public policy in France.
  • E. Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte
    Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte, better known as Auguste Comte, was a 19th-century French philosopher who founded positivism and is often regarded as the father of sociology.
  • 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: Adolphe Quetelet
Triple: [Observatoire Royal de Belgique, foundedBy, Adolphe Quetelet]
Generated description
Adolphe Quetelet was a 19th-century Belgian astronomer, statistician, and sociologist known for pioneering social statistics and introducing the concept of the "average man" as well as the body mass index (BMI).
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Adolphe Quetelet
Target entity description: Adolphe Quetelet was a 19th-century Belgian astronomer, statistician, and sociologist known for pioneering social statistics and introducing the concept of the "average man" as well as the body mass index (BMI).
  • A. Christophorus Henricus Didericus Buys Ballot
    Christophorus Henricus Didericus Buys Ballot was a 19th-century Dutch meteorologist and physicist best known for formulating Buys Ballot's law relating wind direction to atmospheric pressure.
  • B. Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe
    Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe was an 18th-century French neoclassical architect best known for his influential work in Saint Petersburg, where he helped shape Russian imperial architecture.
  • C. Auguste Comte
    Auguste Comte was a 19th-century French philosopher who founded positivism and is often regarded as the father of sociology.
  • D. Frédéric Le Play
    Frédéric Le Play was a 19th-century French engineer, sociologist, and social reformer known for his pioneering empirical studies of working-class family budgets and his influence on social science and public policy in France.
  • E. Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte
    Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte, better known as Auguste Comte, was a 19th-century French philosopher who founded positivism and is often regarded as the father of sociology.
  • 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_69e245f4af548190898d434a64a1e774 completed April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f18e1121c08190a1d29fe594071c46 completed April 29, 2026, 4:50 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c23ec62f08190a4dda0d537a7b024 completed May 19, 2026, 8:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c271e8a8c8190ba994f557f077288 completed May 19, 2026, 9:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c27d3befc8190bc7a3697bc0e817b completed May 19, 2026, 9:05 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:59 p.m.