Triple

T1169712
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Korstian Division E24885 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Clarence F. Korstian
Clarence F. Korstian was an American forester and educator known for his leadership in forest management and his role in developing forestry education and research in the United States.
E390799 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: Clarence F. Korstian | Statement: [Korstian Division, namedAfter, Clarence F. Korstian]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clarence F. Korstian
Context triple: [Korstian Division, namedAfter, Clarence F. Korstian]
  • A. Harry C. Wiess
    Harry C. Wiess was an American oil industry executive and philanthropist whose contributions to Rice University led to a major academic division being named in his honor.
  • B. Ralph E. Winters
    Ralph E. Winters was an Academy Award–winning Canadian-American film editor known for his work on numerous major Hollywood films throughout the mid-20th century.
  • C. Edwin E. Witte
    Edwin E. Witte was an American economist and civil servant known as the “father of Social Security” for his central role in drafting the U.S. Social Security Act of 1935.
  • D. Herbert L. Anderson
    Herbert L. Anderson was an American experimental physicist who played a crucial role in the development of the first nuclear chain reaction and early atomic research during the Manhattan Project.
  • E. Harry W. Gerstad
    Harry W. Gerstad was an American film editor best known for his Academy Award-winning work on classic films such as "High Noon" and "Champion."
  • 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: Clarence F. Korstian
Triple: [Korstian Division, namedAfter, Clarence F. Korstian]
Generated description
Clarence F. Korstian was an American forester and educator known for his leadership in forest management and his role in developing forestry education and research in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clarence F. Korstian
Target entity description: Clarence F. Korstian was an American forester and educator known for his leadership in forest management and his role in developing forestry education and research in the United States.
  • A. Harry C. Wiess
    Harry C. Wiess was an American oil industry executive and philanthropist whose contributions to Rice University led to a major academic division being named in his honor.
  • B. Ralph E. Winters
    Ralph E. Winters was an Academy Award–winning Canadian-American film editor known for his work on numerous major Hollywood films throughout the mid-20th century.
  • C. Edwin E. Witte
    Edwin E. Witte was an American economist and civil servant known as the “father of Social Security” for his central role in drafting the U.S. Social Security Act of 1935.
  • D. Herbert L. Anderson
    Herbert L. Anderson was an American experimental physicist who played a crucial role in the development of the first nuclear chain reaction and early atomic research during the Manhattan Project.
  • E. Harry W. Gerstad
    Harry W. Gerstad was an American film editor best known for his Academy Award-winning work on classic films such as "High Noon" and "Champion."
  • 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_69a494082a7c819095004f423f294a64 completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bce821b481908bc278a3fa7973f4 completed March 1, 2026, 10:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4fabfbf1c819082fe4ccfb65fc51b completed March 14, 2026, 6:05 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4fc5747208190a7af99c10014080e completed March 14, 2026, 6:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4fcc395ec8190a781e982b935c2f6 completed March 14, 2026, 6:14 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.