Triple

T11339385
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brachiosaurus E268554 entity
Predicate describedBy P264 FINISHED
Object Elmer S. Riggs
Elmer S. Riggs was an American paleontologist known for his early 20th-century work on dinosaur fossils, including formally naming and describing the genus Brachiosaurus.
E989917 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: Elmer S. Riggs | Statement: [Brachiosaurus, describedBy, Elmer S. Riggs]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elmer S. Riggs
Context triple: [Brachiosaurus, describedBy, Elmer S. Riggs]
  • A. William V. Pratt
    William V. Pratt was a United States Navy admiral who served as Chief of Naval Operations during the early 1930s and played a key role in shaping interwar naval policy and arms limitation efforts.
  • B. Herbert E. Winlock
    Herbert E. Winlock was an influential American Egyptologist and archaeologist known for his extensive early 20th-century excavations and research on ancient Theban sites in Egypt.
  • C. Oliver Bascom
    Oliver Bascom was a 19th-century American politician who served as a New York State Canal Commissioner, helping oversee the administration and development of the state's canal system.
  • D. William Bartlett Peet
    William Bartlett Peet was an American children's book author and illustrator best known for his work as a story artist at Walt Disney Studios and for his many popular picture books.
  • E. Benjamin Ide Wheeler
    Benjamin Ide Wheeler was an American classical scholar and influential president of the University of California, Berkeley in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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: Elmer S. Riggs
Triple: [Brachiosaurus, describedBy, Elmer S. Riggs]
Generated description
Elmer S. Riggs was an American paleontologist known for his early 20th-century work on dinosaur fossils, including formally naming and describing the genus Brachiosaurus.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elmer S. Riggs
Target entity description: Elmer S. Riggs was an American paleontologist known for his early 20th-century work on dinosaur fossils, including formally naming and describing the genus Brachiosaurus.
  • A. William V. Pratt
    William V. Pratt was a United States Navy admiral who served as Chief of Naval Operations during the early 1930s and played a key role in shaping interwar naval policy and arms limitation efforts.
  • B. Herbert E. Winlock
    Herbert E. Winlock was an influential American Egyptologist and archaeologist known for his extensive early 20th-century excavations and research on ancient Theban sites in Egypt.
  • C. Oliver Bascom
    Oliver Bascom was a 19th-century American politician who served as a New York State Canal Commissioner, helping oversee the administration and development of the state's canal system.
  • D. William Bartlett Peet
    William Bartlett Peet was an American children's book author and illustrator best known for his work as a story artist at Walt Disney Studios and for his many popular picture books.
  • E. Benjamin Ide Wheeler
    Benjamin Ide Wheeler was an American classical scholar and influential president of the University of California, Berkeley in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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_69d6aacb1f0881908c84a349fd1be047 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7ea01c6c08190910a6ce8fb7e186d completed April 9, 2026, 6:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6554d0b0081909cc031ff06b796c0 completed May 2, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6566dccc0819085e059c7b0288f6c completed May 2, 2026, 7:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f65799ca588190b9f7a07f5c1a842c completed May 2, 2026, 7:59 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:33 p.m.