Triple

T16072
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Charles Darwin E320 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist and explorer who independently conceived the theory of evolution by natural selection and is considered a co-founder of evolutionary biology alongside Charles Darwin.
E14851 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 Russel Wallace | Statement: [Charles Darwin, influenced, Alfred Russel Wallace]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred Russel Wallace
Context triple: [Charles Darwin, influenced, Alfred Russel Wallace]
  • 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. Louis Agassiz
    Louis Agassiz was a 19th-century Swiss-American naturalist and geologist known for his pioneering work on glaciation and influential but controversial views on biology and race.
  • C. Horace Darwin
    Horace Darwin was a British engineer and industrialist, co-founder of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company and a leading figure in the development of precision scientific instruments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Leonard Darwin
    Leonard Darwin was a British soldier, politician, and eugenicist, best known as one of Charles Darwin’s sons and a prominent early 20th-century advocate of eugenics.
  • 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 Russel Wallace
Triple: [Charles Darwin, influenced, Alfred Russel Wallace]
Generated description
Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist and explorer who independently conceived the theory of evolution by natural selection and is considered a co-founder of evolutionary biology alongside Charles Darwin.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred Russel Wallace
Target entity description: Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist and explorer who independently conceived the theory of evolution by natural selection and is considered a co-founder of evolutionary biology alongside 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. Louis Agassiz
    Louis Agassiz was a 19th-century Swiss-American naturalist and geologist known for his pioneering work on glaciation and influential but controversial views on biology and race.
  • C. Horace Darwin
    Horace Darwin was a British engineer and industrialist, co-founder of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company and a leading figure in the development of precision scientific instruments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Leonard Darwin
    Leonard Darwin was a British soldier, politician, and eugenicist, best known as one of Charles Darwin’s sons and a prominent early 20th-century advocate of eugenics.
  • 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_69a2a3cd69288190b2321a4478699c56 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 8:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2a5e6e260819085b4de29c3234b54 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 8:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2a65e32e881908e743380f8868cc0 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 8:25 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:02 a.m.