Triple

T14168103
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cassin’s Vireo E351130 entity
Predicate describedBy P264 FINISHED
Object Spencer Fullerton Baird
Spencer Fullerton Baird was a 19th-century American naturalist and ornithologist who became the second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and made major contributions to the study and cataloging of North American wildlife.
E1082862 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: Spencer Fullerton Baird | Statement: [Cassin’s Vireo, describedBy, Spencer Fullerton Baird]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spencer Fullerton Baird
Context triple: [Cassin’s Vireo, describedBy, Spencer Fullerton Baird]
  • A. Ernest Baird
    Ernest Baird is a Northern Irish unionist politician best known for his role in founding and leading the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party during the Troubles.
  • 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. William Temple Hornaday
    William Temple Hornaday was an American zoologist and conservationist known for pioneering wildlife protection efforts and helping to save the American bison from extinction.
  • D. Elliott Coues
    Elliott Coues was a prominent 19th-century American ornithologist and naturalist known for his influential bird classifications and field guides.
  • E. Othniel Charles Marsh
    Othniel Charles Marsh was a pioneering 19th-century American paleontologist known for his extensive dinosaur discoveries and his central role in the “Bone Wars” fossil-hunting rivalry.
  • 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: Spencer Fullerton Baird
Triple: [Cassin’s Vireo, describedBy, Spencer Fullerton Baird]
Generated description
Spencer Fullerton Baird was a 19th-century American naturalist and ornithologist who became the second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and made major contributions to the study and cataloging of North American wildlife.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spencer Fullerton Baird
Target entity description: Spencer Fullerton Baird was a 19th-century American naturalist and ornithologist who became the second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and made major contributions to the study and cataloging of North American wildlife.
  • A. Ernest Baird
    Ernest Baird is a Northern Irish unionist politician best known for his role in founding and leading the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party during the Troubles.
  • 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. William Temple Hornaday
    William Temple Hornaday was an American zoologist and conservationist known for pioneering wildlife protection efforts and helping to save the American bison from extinction.
  • D. Elliott Coues
    Elliott Coues was a prominent 19th-century American ornithologist and naturalist known for his influential bird classifications and field guides.
  • E. Othniel Charles Marsh
    Othniel Charles Marsh was a pioneering 19th-century American paleontologist known for his extensive dinosaur discoveries and his central role in the “Bone Wars” fossil-hunting rivalry.
  • 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_69d8278775fc8190b0802d22ca2f495d completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de61b355f08190864c7322bbcb766d completed April 14, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fcf7f779248190921c85f99f587296 completed May 7, 2026, 8:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fcf8bb58ac81908e66156a805edda8 completed May 7, 2026, 8:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fcf93b528c81908c0ee11908d25574 completed May 7, 2026, 8:42 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1 a.m.