Triple

T11517033
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Como Bluff E273055 entity
Predicate discoveredBy P412 FINISHED
Object William Edward Carlin
William Edward Carlin was a 19th-century fossil hunter and railroad worker known for his role in uncovering dinosaur remains at the famed Como Bluff fossil beds in Wyoming.
E939853 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 Edward Carlin | Statement: [Como Bluff, discoveredBy, William Edward Carlin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Edward Carlin
Context triple: [Como Bluff, discoveredBy, William Edward Carlin]
  • A. Richard E. Keating
    Richard E. Keating was an American physicist best known for co-conducting the Hafele–Keating experiment that tested time dilation using atomic clocks flown on commercial airliners.
  • B. Karl Childers
    Karl Childers is the mentally challenged yet deeply introspective protagonist of the film "Sling Blade," known for his distinctive speech, troubled past, and moral struggle.
  • C. Edward P. Doherty
    Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
  • D. Walter J. Donnelly
    Walter J. Donnelly was an American diplomat who served in senior postwar administrative roles in Germany following World War II.
  • E. Frank J. Caufield
    Frank J. Caufield was an American venture capitalist best known as a co-founder and longtime partner of the influential Silicon Valley firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
  • 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 Edward Carlin
Triple: [Como Bluff, discoveredBy, William Edward Carlin]
Generated description
William Edward Carlin was a 19th-century fossil hunter and railroad worker known for his role in uncovering dinosaur remains at the famed Como Bluff fossil beds in Wyoming.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Edward Carlin
Target entity description: William Edward Carlin was a 19th-century fossil hunter and railroad worker known for his role in uncovering dinosaur remains at the famed Como Bluff fossil beds in Wyoming.
  • A. Richard E. Keating
    Richard E. Keating was an American physicist best known for co-conducting the Hafele–Keating experiment that tested time dilation using atomic clocks flown on commercial airliners.
  • B. Karl Childers
    Karl Childers is the mentally challenged yet deeply introspective protagonist of the film "Sling Blade," known for his distinctive speech, troubled past, and moral struggle.
  • C. Edward P. Doherty
    Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
  • D. Walter J. Donnelly
    Walter J. Donnelly was an American diplomat who served in senior postwar administrative roles in Germany following World War II.
  • E. Frank J. Caufield
    Frank J. Caufield was an American venture capitalist best known as a co-founder and longtime partner of the influential Silicon Valley firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
  • 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_69d6aae2c3748190bed2ea50dfb160dc completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d87fcc72a48190b81acedfcc8685d3 completed April 10, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ef12d90b608190b43fc3aa138aa856 completed April 27, 2026, 7:40 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ef354b3b3c8190b1c91dbf9c705a7d completed April 27, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ef5170ce9881908f2ecf3d5ada809a completed April 27, 2026, 12:07 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:36 p.m.