Triple

T1791649
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Great Zimbabwe E39507 entity
Predicate excavatedBy P7650 FINISHED
Object Gertrude Caton-Thompson
Gertrude Caton-Thompson was a pioneering British archaeologist known for her influential work on prehistoric civilizations in Africa and Arabia, including her landmark investigations at Great Zimbabwe.
 E202234 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: Gertrude Caton-Thompson | Statement: [Great Zimbabwe, excavatedBy, Gertrude Caton-Thompson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Gertrude Caton-Thompson
Context triple: [Great Zimbabwe, excavatedBy, Gertrude Caton-Thompson]
  • A. Flinders Petrie
    Flinders Petrie was a pioneering British Egyptologist and archaeologist renowned for developing systematic excavation methods and establishing sequences of Egyptian pottery for dating ancient sites.
  • B. James Quibell
    James Quibell was a British Egyptologist and archaeologist known for his significant excavations and discoveries in ancient Egyptian sites during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Frances Kuper
    Frances Kuper is known as a former spouse of investigative journalist and author Bob Woodward.
  • D. Hormuzd Rassam
    Hormuzd Rassam was a 19th-century Assyrian-British archaeologist and diplomat known for his significant excavations in Mesopotamia, including major cuneiform discoveries.
  • E. Enid Mary Pollock
    Enid Mary Pollock is the birth name of Enid Blyton, the famous British children's author known for series such as "The Famous Five" and "The Secret Seven."
  • 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: Gertrude Caton-Thompson
Triple: [Great Zimbabwe, excavatedBy, Gertrude Caton-Thompson]
Generated description
Gertrude Caton-Thompson was a pioneering British archaeologist known for her influential work on prehistoric civilizations in Africa and Arabia, including her landmark investigations at Great Zimbabwe.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Gertrude Caton-Thompson
Target entity description: Gertrude Caton-Thompson was a pioneering British archaeologist known for her influential work on prehistoric civilizations in Africa and Arabia, including her landmark investigations at Great Zimbabwe.
  • A. Flinders Petrie
    Flinders Petrie was a pioneering British Egyptologist and archaeologist renowned for developing systematic excavation methods and establishing sequences of Egyptian pottery for dating ancient sites.
  • B. James Quibell
    James Quibell was a British Egyptologist and archaeologist known for his significant excavations and discoveries in ancient Egyptian sites during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Frances Kuper
    Frances Kuper is known as a former spouse of investigative journalist and author Bob Woodward.
  • D. Hormuzd Rassam
    Hormuzd Rassam was a 19th-century Assyrian-British archaeologist and diplomat known for his significant excavations in Mesopotamia, including major cuneiform discoveries.
  • E. Enid Mary Pollock
    Enid Mary Pollock is the birth name of Enid Blyton, the famous British children's author known for series such as "The Famous Five" and "The Secret Seven."
  • 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_69a88631854081909723959921e45c2b completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa65392b2c81909bf4d619bd347f54 completed March 6, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adb5d063d48190aef6796ee3957994 completed March 8, 2026, 5:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adb8b54a5081908b7dba1ff0d1a8da completed March 8, 2026, 5:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adb9b7a32481908a11686d658a077a completed March 8, 2026, 6:02 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.