Triple

T14682295
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Thomas Blanford E344817 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma
The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma is a landmark multi-volume zoological series that systematically catalogues and describes the animal species of the Indian subcontinent and surrounding regions.
E1113453 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: The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma | Statement: [William Thomas Blanford, notableWork, The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma
Context triple: [William Thomas Blanford, notableWork, The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma]
  • A. A Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Museum of the East-India Company
    "A Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Museum of the East-India Company" is a 19th-century zoological reference work by Thomas Horsfield that systematically documents and describes the mammal specimens held in the East India Company's museum.
  • B. Zoological Researches in Java and the Neighbouring Islands
    Zoological Researches in Java and the Neighbouring Islands is a 19th-century natural history work documenting the fauna of Java and surrounding regions, notable for its detailed descriptions and illustrations of many Southeast Asian species.
  • C. Spicilegia Zoologica
    Spicilegia Zoologica is an 18th-century zoological work by Peter Simon Pallas that introduced and described numerous new animal species.
  • D. A Manual of British Vertebrate Animals
    A Manual of British Vertebrate Animals is a 19th-century zoological reference work by naturalist Leonard Jenyns that systematically catalogues and describes the vertebrate species of Britain.
  • E. The Geographical Distribution of Animals
    The Geographical Distribution of Animals is a foundational 19th-century biogeography work by Alfred Russel Wallace that systematically analyzes how and why animal species are distributed across different regions of the world.
  • 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: The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma
Triple: [William Thomas Blanford, notableWork, The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma]
Generated description
The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma is a landmark multi-volume zoological series that systematically catalogues and describes the animal species of the Indian subcontinent and surrounding regions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma
Target entity description: The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma is a landmark multi-volume zoological series that systematically catalogues and describes the animal species of the Indian subcontinent and surrounding regions.
  • A. A Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Museum of the East-India Company
    "A Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Museum of the East-India Company" is a 19th-century zoological reference work by Thomas Horsfield that systematically documents and describes the mammal specimens held in the East India Company's museum.
  • B. Zoological Researches in Java and the Neighbouring Islands
    Zoological Researches in Java and the Neighbouring Islands is a 19th-century natural history work documenting the fauna of Java and surrounding regions, notable for its detailed descriptions and illustrations of many Southeast Asian species.
  • C. Spicilegia Zoologica
    Spicilegia Zoologica is an 18th-century zoological work by Peter Simon Pallas that introduced and described numerous new animal species.
  • D. A Manual of British Vertebrate Animals
    A Manual of British Vertebrate Animals is a 19th-century zoological reference work by naturalist Leonard Jenyns that systematically catalogues and describes the vertebrate species of Britain.
  • E. The Geographical Distribution of Animals
    The Geographical Distribution of Animals is a foundational 19th-century biogeography work by Alfred Russel Wallace that systematically analyzes how and why animal species are distributed across different regions of the world.
  • 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_69d822e34b348190ada4d1cdb6c7c226 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb56a51ec8190941684fd562a7182 completed April 14, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fde182dab08190aac2ff2db666ee69 completed May 8, 2026, 1:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fde5efec48819098c55c7b4abcc7a5 completed May 8, 2026, 1:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fde66b1bf881908072a50d43a527f2 completed May 8, 2026, 1:34 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:28 a.m.