Triple

T16073
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Charles Darwin E320 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley was a 19th-century English biologist and public intellectual known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his vigorous advocacy of evolutionary theory and his contributions to comparative anatomy and science education.
E15388 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: Thomas Henry Huxley | Statement: [Charles Darwin, influenced, Thomas Henry Huxley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Henry Huxley
Context triple: [Charles Darwin, influenced, Thomas Henry Huxley]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • 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. George Howard Darwin
    George Howard Darwin was a British astronomer and mathematician known for his work on tidal theory and the evolution of the Earth–Moon system.
  • 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: Thomas Henry Huxley
Triple: [Charles Darwin, influenced, Thomas Henry Huxley]
Generated description
Thomas Henry Huxley was a 19th-century English biologist and public intellectual known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his vigorous advocacy of evolutionary theory and his contributions to comparative anatomy and science education.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Henry Huxley
Target entity description: Thomas Henry Huxley was a 19th-century English biologist and public intellectual known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his vigorous advocacy of evolutionary theory and his contributions to comparative anatomy and science education.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • 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. George Howard Darwin
    George Howard Darwin was a British astronomer and mathematician known for his work on tidal theory and the evolution of the Earth–Moon system.
  • 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_69a2aa3edb18819080634fad6c570517 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 8:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2ac77ac548190898931e22b28248e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 8:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2acfdc97c8190813cce438a8127f2 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 8:53 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:02 a.m.