Triple

T16071
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Charles Darwin E320 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt was a pioneering 18th–19th century Prussian naturalist and explorer whose integrative studies of nature helped lay the foundations of modern biogeography and deeply shaped later scientists such as Charles Darwin.
E2656 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: Alexander von Humboldt | Statement: [Charles Darwin, influencedBy, Alexander von Humboldt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander von Humboldt
Context triple: [Charles Darwin, influencedBy, Alexander von Humboldt]
  • A. Charles Darwin
    Charles Darwin was a 19th-century English naturalist whose theory of evolution by natural selection revolutionized biology and our understanding of life on Earth.
  • B. Charles Lyell
    Charles Lyell was a pioneering 19th-century Scottish geologist whose work on uniformitarianism and deep geological time profoundly shaped modern geology and influenced evolutionary thinkers.
  • C. Wilhelm von Humboldt
    Wilhelm von Humboldt was a German philosopher, linguist, and statesman whose ideas about the creative, generative nature of language profoundly shaped modern linguistic theory.
  • D. Erasmus Darwin
    Erasmus Darwin was an 18th-century English physician, natural philosopher, and poet who proposed early ideas about biological evolution and influenced later evolutionary thought.
  • E. Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier
    Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier was a French mathematician and physicist best known for pioneering the theory of heat conduction and developing Fourier series, which laid the foundations of modern Fourier analysis.
  • 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: Alexander von Humboldt
Triple: [Charles Darwin, influencedBy, Alexander von Humboldt]
Generated description
Alexander von Humboldt was a pioneering 18th–19th century Prussian naturalist and explorer whose integrative studies of nature helped lay the foundations of modern biogeography and deeply shaped later scientists such as Charles Darwin.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander von Humboldt
Target entity description: Alexander von Humboldt was a pioneering 18th–19th century Prussian naturalist and explorer whose integrative studies of nature helped lay the foundations of modern biogeography and deeply shaped later scientists such as Charles Darwin.
  • A. Charles Darwin
    Charles Darwin was a 19th-century English naturalist whose theory of evolution by natural selection revolutionized biology and our understanding of life on Earth.
  • B. Charles Lyell
    Charles Lyell was a pioneering 19th-century Scottish geologist whose work on uniformitarianism and deep geological time profoundly shaped modern geology and influenced evolutionary thinkers.
  • C. Wilhelm von Humboldt
    Wilhelm von Humboldt was a German philosopher, linguist, and statesman whose ideas about the creative, generative nature of language profoundly shaped modern linguistic theory.
  • D. Erasmus Darwin
    Erasmus Darwin was an 18th-century English physician, natural philosopher, and poet who proposed early ideas about biological evolution and influenced later evolutionary thought.
  • E. Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier
    Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier was a French mathematician and physicist best known for pioneering the theory of heat conduction and developing Fourier series, which laid the foundations of modern Fourier analysis.
  • 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_69a23d7ad88c8190bffe8ab091d86642 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:57 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2400257208190b3cd87ad2a06c18f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a24e56618081909ba0879a05cd698c completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a250c8cf7c8190b71c65d204d21fd8 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2514627f081909a032877d07b30bf completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:21 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:02 a.m.