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]
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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.
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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.
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C.
James Prichard
James Prichard is a television and film producer best known for overseeing modern screen adaptations of Agatha Christie's works.
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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.
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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.