Triple

T131195
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alexander von Humboldt E2656 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object John Muir
John Muir was a pioneering Scottish-American naturalist, writer, and conservationist whose advocacy helped establish the U.S. national parks system and the modern environmental movement.
E16262 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 Muir | Statement: [Alexander von Humboldt, influenced, John Muir]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Muir
Context triple: [Alexander von Humboldt, influenced, John Muir]
  • A. Henry David Thoreau
    Henry David Thoreau was a 19th-century American transcendentalist writer, philosopher, and naturalist best known for his works "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience," which advocated simple living and principled resistance to unjust laws.
  • B. Clinton Hart Merriam
    Clinton Hart Merriam was an American zoologist and ethnographer known for his pioneering work in North American mammalogy and biogeography.
  • C. David Douglas
    David Douglas was a 19th-century Scottish botanist and plant collector renowned for introducing numerous North American tree species, including the Douglas fir, to Europe.
  • D. Frederic Edwin Church
    Frederic Edwin Church was a leading 19th-century American landscape painter of the Hudson River School, renowned for his large-scale, dramatic depictions of natural wonders.
  • E. Andrew Smith Hallidie
    Andrew Smith Hallidie was a 19th-century engineer and inventor credited with pioneering San Francisco’s cable car system and advancing wire rope technology.
  • 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 Muir
Triple: [Alexander von Humboldt, influenced, John Muir]
Generated description
John Muir was a pioneering Scottish-American naturalist, writer, and conservationist whose advocacy helped establish the U.S. national parks system and the modern environmental movement.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Muir
Target entity description: John Muir was a pioneering Scottish-American naturalist, writer, and conservationist whose advocacy helped establish the U.S. national parks system and the modern environmental movement.
  • A. Henry David Thoreau
    Henry David Thoreau was a 19th-century American transcendentalist writer, philosopher, and naturalist best known for his works "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience," which advocated simple living and principled resistance to unjust laws.
  • B. Clinton Hart Merriam
    Clinton Hart Merriam was an American zoologist and ethnographer known for his pioneering work in North American mammalogy and biogeography.
  • C. David Douglas
    David Douglas was a 19th-century Scottish botanist and plant collector renowned for introducing numerous North American tree species, including the Douglas fir, to Europe.
  • D. Frederic Edwin Church
    Frederic Edwin Church was a leading 19th-century American landscape painter of the Hudson River School, renowned for his large-scale, dramatic depictions of natural wonders.
  • E. Andrew Smith Hallidie
    Andrew Smith Hallidie was a 19th-century engineer and inventor credited with pioneering San Francisco’s cable car system and advancing wire rope technology.
  • 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_69a2520c0f3481908b0ed054a2fca8d0 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25785ad5c819097c00f31719fea7e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2b4bad1a0819098459e2a9d6b8d2a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2b55279a08190b9e73f6f9faf1ebe completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2b5e5c0d08190a1da63663e5c932d completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:31 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:30 a.m.