Triple

T18237793
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Mismeasure of Man E436725 entity
Predicate critiquesWorkOf P51069 FINISHED
Object Samuel George Morton
Samuel George Morton was a 19th-century American physician and natural scientist known for his influential but now-discredited craniometric studies used to support scientific racism.
E1314439 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: Samuel George Morton | Statement: [The Mismeasure of Man, critiquesWorkOf, Samuel George Morton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel George Morton
Context triple: [The Mismeasure of Man, critiquesWorkOf, Samuel George Morton]
  • A. George Combe Mann
    George Combe Mann was a son of American education reformer Horace Mann, likely known primarily through his connection to his prominent father.
  • B. John Peabody Harrington
    John Peabody Harrington was an American linguist and ethnographer renowned for his extensive documentation of Native American languages and cultures, particularly in California.
  • C. James Prichard
    James Prichard is a television and film producer best known for overseeing modern screen adaptations of Agatha Christie's works.
  • D. Joseph Leidy
    Joseph Leidy was a 19th-century American paleontologist, anatomist, and naturalist regarded as one of the founders of vertebrate paleontology in the United States.
  • E. Frank Hamilton Cushing
    Frank Hamilton Cushing was a pioneering American anthropologist and ethnologist best known for his immersive fieldwork among the Zuni people in the late 19th century.
  • 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: Samuel George Morton
Triple: [The Mismeasure of Man, critiquesWorkOf, Samuel George Morton]
Generated description
Samuel George Morton was a 19th-century American physician and natural scientist known for his influential but now-discredited craniometric studies used to support scientific racism.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel George Morton
Target entity description: Samuel George Morton was a 19th-century American physician and natural scientist known for his influential but now-discredited craniometric studies used to support scientific racism.
  • A. George Combe Mann
    George Combe Mann was a son of American education reformer Horace Mann, likely known primarily through his connection to his prominent father.
  • B. John Peabody Harrington
    John Peabody Harrington was an American linguist and ethnographer renowned for his extensive documentation of Native American languages and cultures, particularly in California.
  • C. James Prichard
    James Prichard is a television and film producer best known for overseeing modern screen adaptations of Agatha Christie's works.
  • D. Joseph Leidy
    Joseph Leidy was a 19th-century American paleontologist, anatomist, and naturalist regarded as one of the founders of vertebrate paleontology in the United States.
  • E. Frank Hamilton Cushing
    Frank Hamilton Cushing was a pioneering American anthropologist and ethnologist best known for his immersive fieldwork among the Zuni people in the late 19th century.
  • 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_69d8b91104e08190a8241f7d260a5162 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4f7def3c48190a9a96c8b4911f0f3 completed April 19, 2026, 3:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a03ac6d44d881908972c94167ad7d43 completed May 12, 2026, 10:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03ad4d5bcc8190a5e065a5bb897400 completed May 12, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03af1fb1e0819095c9e8cb5528ce30 completed May 12, 2026, 10:52 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:33 a.m.