Triple

T1693677
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sierra Nevada foothills E36605 entity
Predicate flora P953 FINISHED
Object Quercus wislizeni
Quercus wislizeni is an evergreen oak tree species native to California, commonly found in the Sierra Nevada foothills and surrounding regions.
E192608 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: Quercus wislizeni | Statement: [Sierra Nevada foothills, flora, Quercus wislizeni]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Quercus wislizeni
Context triple: [Sierra Nevada foothills, flora, Quercus wislizeni]
  • A. Quercus douglasii
    Quercus douglasii, commonly known as blue oak, is a drought-tolerant deciduous oak tree native to California’s interior woodlands and foothills.
  • B. Zelkova
    Zelkova is a small genus of deciduous trees in the elm family, valued as ornamentals and for bonsai, and native to parts of Europe and Asia.
  • C. Ulmus
    Ulmus is a genus of deciduous trees commonly known as elms, widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere and valued for their distinctive vase-shaped form and use in landscaping and timber.
  • D. Celtis
    Celtis is a genus of deciduous trees commonly known as hackberries, valued for their hardiness and small, berry-like fruits.
  • E. Paliurus
    Paliurus is a small genus of spiny shrubs and small trees known for their distinctive disc-shaped, winged fruits and occurrence in warm temperate to subtropical regions of Eurasia.
  • 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: Quercus wislizeni
Triple: [Sierra Nevada foothills, flora, Quercus wislizeni]
Generated description
Quercus wislizeni is an evergreen oak tree species native to California, commonly found in the Sierra Nevada foothills and surrounding regions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Quercus wislizeni
Target entity description: Quercus wislizeni is an evergreen oak tree species native to California, commonly found in the Sierra Nevada foothills and surrounding regions.
  • A. Quercus douglasii
    Quercus douglasii, commonly known as blue oak, is a drought-tolerant deciduous oak tree native to California’s interior woodlands and foothills.
  • B. Zelkova
    Zelkova is a small genus of deciduous trees in the elm family, valued as ornamentals and for bonsai, and native to parts of Europe and Asia.
  • C. Ulmus
    Ulmus is a genus of deciduous trees commonly known as elms, widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere and valued for their distinctive vase-shaped form and use in landscaping and timber.
  • D. Celtis
    Celtis is a genus of deciduous trees commonly known as hackberries, valued for their hardiness and small, berry-like fruits.
  • E. Paliurus
    Paliurus is a small genus of spiny shrubs and small trees known for their distinctive disc-shaped, winged fruits and occurrence in warm temperate to subtropical regions of Eurasia.
  • 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_69a886163dec8190859c514232a37a05 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa62b228988190a7d19003ddf10ce5 completed March 6, 2026, 5:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad8ac6cc88819086821026a37a3578 completed March 8, 2026, 2:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad9575acf88190aa3fe80794534dd4 completed March 8, 2026, 3:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad97a7128c819097ff36216f00d4f9 completed March 8, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.