Triple

T11389374
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nathaniel Lord Britton E269793 entity
Predicate coAuthor P398 FINISHED
Object John Adolph Shafer
John Adolph Shafer was an American botanist known for his extensive fieldwork and plant collections, particularly in the Caribbean, and for collaborating with prominent botanists such as Nathaniel Lord Britton.
E925144 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: John Adolph Shafer | Statement: [Nathaniel Lord Britton, coAuthor, John Adolph Shafer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Adolph Shafer
Context triple: [Nathaniel Lord Britton, coAuthor, John Adolph Shafer]
  • A. George Shively
    George Shively was an early 20th-century Negro league outfielder known for his speed, strong defense, and key role on several prominent Black baseball teams.
  • B. Jesse B. Oldendorf
    Jesse B. Oldendorf was a U.S. Navy admiral in World War II best known for orchestrating the decisive nighttime naval gunfire that helped annihilate a Japanese battleship force at the Battle of Surigao Strait.
  • C. John Swett
    John Swett was a prominent 19th-century American educator and reformer often regarded as the "father of the California public school system."
  • D. Edward Walter Eberle
    Edward Walter Eberle was a United States Navy admiral who served as Chief of Naval Operations in the 1920s, overseeing the fleet during a period of modernization and post–World War I transition.
  • E. Charles Rettig
    Charles Rettig is an American tax attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2022.
  • 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: John Adolph Shafer
Triple: [Nathaniel Lord Britton, coAuthor, John Adolph Shafer]
Generated description
John Adolph Shafer was an American botanist known for his extensive fieldwork and plant collections, particularly in the Caribbean, and for collaborating with prominent botanists such as Nathaniel Lord Britton.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Adolph Shafer
Target entity description: John Adolph Shafer was an American botanist known for his extensive fieldwork and plant collections, particularly in the Caribbean, and for collaborating with prominent botanists such as Nathaniel Lord Britton.
  • A. George Shively
    George Shively was an early 20th-century Negro league outfielder known for his speed, strong defense, and key role on several prominent Black baseball teams.
  • B. Jesse B. Oldendorf
    Jesse B. Oldendorf was a U.S. Navy admiral in World War II best known for orchestrating the decisive nighttime naval gunfire that helped annihilate a Japanese battleship force at the Battle of Surigao Strait.
  • C. John Swett
    John Swett was a prominent 19th-century American educator and reformer often regarded as the "father of the California public school system."
  • D. Edward Walter Eberle
    Edward Walter Eberle was a United States Navy admiral who served as Chief of Naval Operations in the 1920s, overseeing the fleet during a period of modernization and post–World War I transition.
  • E. Charles Rettig
    Charles Rettig is an American tax attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2022.
  • 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_69d6aacdbc6c8190af6dc3d5f5d22836 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7fc389d4c81909515a5c8b0099c36 completed April 9, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e5b813cfc48190a10d9b78953112ae completed April 20, 2026, 5:22 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e5c289b5ac81909bdaec61a66f6654 completed April 20, 2026, 6:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e5c43f4b4c8190aeae600364d2e4ac completed April 20, 2026, 6:14 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:34 p.m.