Triple
T156433
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Columbian Exchange |
E3190
|
entity |
| Predicate | coinedBy |
P118
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Alfred W. Crosby
Alfred W. Crosby was an American environmental historian whose influential work on ecological and cultural consequences of European expansion helped establish the field of environmental history.
|
E25254
|
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 W. Crosby | Statement: [Columbian Exchange, coinedBy, Alfred W. Crosby]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred W. Crosby Context triple: [Columbian Exchange, coinedBy, Alfred W. Crosby]
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A.
J. O. Taylor
J. O. Taylor was a cinematographer active during early Hollywood who worked on the landmark 1933 monster film "King Kong."
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B.
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.
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C.
Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond is an American geographer, historian, and author best known for his influential, interdisciplinary books on human societies, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning "Guns, Germs, and Steel."
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D.
Bartlett S. Durham
Bartlett S. Durham was a 19th-century physician and landowner whose donated land for a railroad depot led to the founding and naming of the city of Durham, North Carolina.
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E.
Frank B. Jewett
Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
- 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 W. Crosby Triple: [Columbian Exchange, coinedBy, Alfred W. Crosby]
Generated description
Alfred W. Crosby was an American environmental historian whose influential work on ecological and cultural consequences of European expansion helped establish the field of environmental history.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred W. Crosby Target entity description: Alfred W. Crosby was an American environmental historian whose influential work on ecological and cultural consequences of European expansion helped establish the field of environmental history.
-
A.
J. O. Taylor
J. O. Taylor was a cinematographer active during early Hollywood who worked on the landmark 1933 monster film "King Kong."
-
B.
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.
-
C.
Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond is an American geographer, historian, and author best known for his influential, interdisciplinary books on human societies, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning "Guns, Germs, and Steel."
-
D.
Bartlett S. Durham
Bartlett S. Durham was a 19th-century physician and landowner whose donated land for a railroad depot led to the founding and naming of the city of Durham, North Carolina.
-
E.
Frank B. Jewett
Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
- 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_69a2527757ec819090b8becb2cf1a862 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:27 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a25830136881909f5ecb2cb22097b2 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:51 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a31c8fe0ec81908e96c597c5f949b7 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 4:49 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a31d1be0d88190856eab1d0882adb8 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 4:51 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a31d7606d08190868f6f14399e8c73 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 4:53 p.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:31 a.m.