Triple

T140626
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Stanford University E2841 entity
Predicate mascot P52 FINISHED
Object Stanford Tree
The Stanford Tree is the unofficial, whimsical and often irreverent costumed mascot of Stanford University’s marching band, known for its ever-changing, student-designed tree costume.
E16236 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: Stanford Tree | Statement: [Stanford University, mascot, Stanford Tree]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stanford Tree
Context triple: [Stanford University, mascot, Stanford Tree]
  • A. California redwood
    The California redwood is a towering, long-lived coniferous tree native to the coastal and mountainous regions of California, renowned for being among the tallest and largest trees on Earth.
  • B. giant sequoia
    The giant sequoia is an enormous, long-lived coniferous tree species native to California’s Sierra Nevada, renowned for being among the largest and most massive trees on Earth.
  • C. General Sherman Tree
    The General Sherman Tree is a giant sequoia in California renowned as the largest tree in the world by volume and a major natural landmark.
  • D. Metasequoia
    Metasequoia is a small genus of fast-growing deciduous conifer trees best known for the dawn redwood, a once-thought-extinct "living fossil" valued in paleobotany and ornamental planting.
  • E. City of Trees
    City of Trees is a popular nickname for Sacramento, California, highlighting its extensive urban tree canopy and lush greenery.
  • 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: Stanford Tree
Triple: [Stanford University, mascot, Stanford Tree]
Generated description
The Stanford Tree is the unofficial, whimsical and often irreverent costumed mascot of Stanford University’s marching band, known for its ever-changing, student-designed tree costume.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stanford Tree
Target entity description: The Stanford Tree is the unofficial, whimsical and often irreverent costumed mascot of Stanford University’s marching band, known for its ever-changing, student-designed tree costume.
  • A. California redwood
    The California redwood is a towering, long-lived coniferous tree native to the coastal and mountainous regions of California, renowned for being among the tallest and largest trees on Earth.
  • B. giant sequoia
    The giant sequoia is an enormous, long-lived coniferous tree species native to California’s Sierra Nevada, renowned for being among the largest and most massive trees on Earth.
  • C. General Sherman Tree
    The General Sherman Tree is a giant sequoia in California renowned as the largest tree in the world by volume and a major natural landmark.
  • D. Metasequoia
    Metasequoia is a small genus of fast-growing deciduous conifer trees best known for the dawn redwood, a once-thought-extinct "living fossil" valued in paleobotany and ornamental planting.
  • E. City of Trees
    City of Trees is a popular nickname for Sacramento, California, highlighting its extensive urban tree canopy and lush greenery.
  • 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_69a2521e35c08190b28e5c9f1e3c9b59 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a257c7e79c8190b3e5a2983035a972 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:49 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2b4bc01cc8190bed2333b274ee645 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2b5b9f65081909c1afec015c5d485 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2b6648d188190a81f432c91512b5e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:33 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:31 a.m.