Triple

T124810
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Franz Boas E2523 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object Alfred L. Kroeber
Alfred L. Kroeber was a pioneering American anthropologist known for his influential work on Native American cultures, linguistic anthropology, and the development of cultural anthropology in the United States.
E16176 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: Alfred L. Kroeber | Statement: [Franz Boas, influenced, Alfred L. Kroeber]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred L. Kroeber
Context triple: [Franz Boas, influenced, Alfred L. Kroeber]
  • A. Alfred Marston Tozzer
    Alfred Marston Tozzer was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering work on Mayan civilization and his long association with Harvard University.
  • B. Franz Boas
    Franz Boas was a pioneering German-American anthropologist often regarded as the "father of American anthropology" for his foundational work in cultural relativism and field-based ethnographic research.
  • C. Ruth Benedict
    Ruth Benedict was a pioneering American anthropologist known for her work on culture and personality, particularly through influential books like "Patterns of Culture."
  • D. Edward Sapir
    Edward Sapir was a pioneering American anthropologist-linguist whose work on language, culture, and cognition helped lay the foundations of modern linguistics and linguistic anthropology.
  • E. William Graham Sumner
    William Graham Sumner was an influential American sociologist and classical liberal thinker known for his defense of laissez-faire economics and his association with Social Darwinist ideas 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: Alfred L. Kroeber
Triple: [Franz Boas, influenced, Alfred L. Kroeber]
Generated description
Alfred L. Kroeber was a pioneering American anthropologist known for his influential work on Native American cultures, linguistic anthropology, and the development of cultural anthropology in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred L. Kroeber
Target entity description: Alfred L. Kroeber was a pioneering American anthropologist known for his influential work on Native American cultures, linguistic anthropology, and the development of cultural anthropology in the United States.
  • A. Alfred Marston Tozzer
    Alfred Marston Tozzer was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering work on Mayan civilization and his long association with Harvard University.
  • B. Franz Boas
    Franz Boas was a pioneering German-American anthropologist often regarded as the "father of American anthropology" for his foundational work in cultural relativism and field-based ethnographic research.
  • C. Ruth Benedict
    Ruth Benedict was a pioneering American anthropologist known for her work on culture and personality, particularly through influential books like "Patterns of Culture."
  • D. Edward Sapir
    Edward Sapir was a pioneering American anthropologist-linguist whose work on language, culture, and cognition helped lay the foundations of modern linguistics and linguistic anthropology.
  • E. William Graham Sumner
    William Graham Sumner was an influential American sociologist and classical liberal thinker known for his defense of laissez-faire economics and his association with Social Darwinist ideas 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_69a251b54ea88190b18281669f59b4c0 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:23 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2573e4e6481908252dfef2e34f46e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:47 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2b4b90654819092780651ae9408e9 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2b54973388190bd1eb424593d607a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2b5ab4cc481908f14b3c8274d8891 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:30 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:27 a.m.