Triple

T9141251
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Charles Green E219331 entity
Predicate observedEvent P77811 FINISHED
Object Transit of Venus of 1769
The Transit of Venus of 1769 was a rare astronomical event in which Venus passed directly between Earth and the Sun, observed worldwide to refine measurements of the solar system’s scale.
E780697 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: Transit of Venus of 1769 | Statement: [Charles Green, observedEvent, Transit of Venus of 1769]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Transit of Venus of 1769
Context triple: [Charles Green, observedEvent, Transit of Venus of 1769]
  • A. Royal Society expedition to observe the transit of Venus
    The Royal Society expedition to observe the transit of Venus was an 18th-century British scientific mission, notably including James Cook, sent to the South Pacific to make precise astronomical measurements that would help determine the scale of the solar system.
  • B. Vega expedition
    The Vega expedition was a late 19th-century Swedish-led Arctic voyage commanded by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld that became famous for achieving the first complete navigation of the Northeast Passage.
  • C. Great Comet of 1577
    The Great Comet of 1577 was a bright, widely observed comet whose precise measurements by Tycho Brahe helped demonstrate that comets travel through the celestial spheres, challenging the prevailing Aristotelian cosmology.
  • D. Eddington 1919 solar eclipse expedition
    The Eddington 1919 solar eclipse expedition was a landmark astronomical observation campaign that measured the deflection of starlight by the Sun’s gravity, providing the first major empirical confirmation of Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
  • E. Halley’s eclipse map of 1715
    Halley’s eclipse map of 1715 is a pioneering scientific chart created by astronomer Edmund Halley to predict and depict the path of a total solar eclipse across England with unprecedented accuracy.
  • 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: Transit of Venus of 1769
Triple: [Charles Green, observedEvent, Transit of Venus of 1769]
Generated description
The Transit of Venus of 1769 was a rare astronomical event in which Venus passed directly between Earth and the Sun, observed worldwide to refine measurements of the solar system’s scale.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Transit of Venus of 1769
Target entity description: The Transit of Venus of 1769 was a rare astronomical event in which Venus passed directly between Earth and the Sun, observed worldwide to refine measurements of the solar system’s scale.
  • A. Royal Society expedition to observe the transit of Venus chosen
    The Royal Society expedition to observe the transit of Venus was an 18th-century British scientific mission, notably including James Cook, sent to the South Pacific to make precise astronomical measurements that would help determine the scale of the solar system.
  • B. Vega expedition
    The Vega expedition was a late 19th-century Swedish-led Arctic voyage commanded by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld that became famous for achieving the first complete navigation of the Northeast Passage.
  • C. Great Comet of 1577
    The Great Comet of 1577 was a bright, widely observed comet whose precise measurements by Tycho Brahe helped demonstrate that comets travel through the celestial spheres, challenging the prevailing Aristotelian cosmology.
  • D. Eddington 1919 solar eclipse expedition
    The Eddington 1919 solar eclipse expedition was a landmark astronomical observation campaign that measured the deflection of starlight by the Sun’s gravity, providing the first major empirical confirmation of Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
  • E. Halley’s eclipse map of 1715
    Halley’s eclipse map of 1715 is a pioneering scientific chart created by astronomer Edmund Halley to predict and depict the path of a total solar eclipse across England with unprecedented accuracy.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ca83e012288190a5771058adbaabd2 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cca8f4df5c8190808edfa7c453a51c completed April 1, 2026, 5:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d0545584e08190bda111f2c6163a4a completed April 3, 2026, 11:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d0553c2b58819086a651863f884064 completed April 4, 2026, 12:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d0562e41bc8190801c75e962600df2 completed April 4, 2026, 12:07 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:19 p.m.