Triple

T16714045
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Zapata wren E406177 entity
Predicate describedBy P264 FINISHED
Object Thomas Barbour
Thomas Barbour was an American zoologist and herpetologist known for his extensive work on Caribbean and Central American fauna and his long association with Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology.
E1230340 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 Barbour | Statement: [Zapata wren, describedBy, Thomas Barbour]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Barbour
Context triple: [Zapata wren, describedBy, Thomas Barbour]
  • A. William Beck Ochiltree
    William Beck Ochiltree was a 19th-century Texas lawyer, politician, and Confederate official who played a prominent role in the early political and legal development of Texas.
  • B. John MacTavish
    John "Soap" MacTavish is a fictional Scottish special forces soldier and a central playable character in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare video game series.
  • C. William Adamson
    William Adamson was a Scottish Labour politician who served as Secretary of State for Scotland in the early 20th century and played a key role in the party’s rise to government.
  • D. William Kirkland
    William Kirkland was an early 19th-century American planter and merchant best known for commissioning and building the historic Federal-style plantation house Ayr Mount in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
  • E. Robert Baillie
    Robert Baillie was a 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister, theologian, and prolific letter-writer who played a prominent role in the religious and political struggles of the Covenanter movement.
  • 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 Barbour
Triple: [Zapata wren, describedBy, Thomas Barbour]
Generated description
Thomas Barbour was an American zoologist and herpetologist known for his extensive work on Caribbean and Central American fauna and his long association with Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Barbour
Target entity description: Thomas Barbour was an American zoologist and herpetologist known for his extensive work on Caribbean and Central American fauna and his long association with Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology.
  • A. William Beck Ochiltree
    William Beck Ochiltree was a 19th-century Texas lawyer, politician, and Confederate official who played a prominent role in the early political and legal development of Texas.
  • B. John MacTavish
    John "Soap" MacTavish is a fictional Scottish special forces soldier and a central playable character in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare video game series.
  • C. William Adamson
    William Adamson was a Scottish Labour politician who served as Secretary of State for Scotland in the early 20th century and played a key role in the party’s rise to government.
  • D. William Kirkland
    William Kirkland was an early 19th-century American planter and merchant best known for commissioning and building the historic Federal-style plantation house Ayr Mount in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
  • E. Robert Baillie
    Robert Baillie was a 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister, theologian, and prolific letter-writer who played a prominent role in the religious and political struggles of the Covenanter movement.
  • 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_69d8838f242881908abd8bc138795886 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e38653cdd48190863e1cc989e21f39 completed April 18, 2026, 1:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a009d3adef081908692a4a86d7a0779 completed May 10, 2026, 2:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a009e08b56c8190833d5f64945a979b completed May 10, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a009eb209cc819081c5fb2c89583602 completed May 10, 2026, 3:05 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:20 a.m.