Triple

T1851827
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Henry Chandler Cowles E41610 entity
Predicate hasNotableStudent P4838 FINISHED
Object Paul B. Sears
Paul B. Sears was an influential American ecologist and conservationist known for his pioneering work in plant ecology and environmental education.
 E219601 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: Paul B. Sears | Statement: [Henry Chandler Cowles, hasNotableStudent, Paul B. Sears]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Paul B. Sears
Context triple: [Henry Chandler Cowles, hasNotableStudent, Paul B. Sears]
  • A. William Rees Sears
    William Rees Sears was an American aeronautical engineer and educator known for his influential work in aerodynamics and aircraft design.
  • B. James Gamble Rogers
    James Gamble Rogers was an American architect best known for designing many of Yale University's Collegiate Gothic buildings in the early 20th century.
  • C. Edward Durell Stone
    Edward Durell Stone was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for his modernist yet ornamental designs on major public and cultural buildings.
  • D. George B. Post
    George B. Post was a prominent American architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for pioneering skyscraper design and creating major civic and commercial landmarks.
  • E. George Foster Shepley
    George Foster Shepley was a prominent American architect known for his role in the influential Boston firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, which continued the legacy of H. H. Richardson.
  • 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: Paul B. Sears
Triple: [Henry Chandler Cowles, hasNotableStudent, Paul B. Sears]
Generated description
Paul B. Sears was an influential American ecologist and conservationist known for his pioneering work in plant ecology and environmental education.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Paul B. Sears
Target entity description: Paul B. Sears was an influential American ecologist and conservationist known for his pioneering work in plant ecology and environmental education.
  • A. William Rees Sears
    William Rees Sears was an American aeronautical engineer and educator known for his influential work in aerodynamics and aircraft design.
  • B. James Gamble Rogers
    James Gamble Rogers was an American architect best known for designing many of Yale University's Collegiate Gothic buildings in the early 20th century.
  • C. Edward Durell Stone
    Edward Durell Stone was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for his modernist yet ornamental designs on major public and cultural buildings.
  • D. George B. Post
    George B. Post was a prominent American architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for pioneering skyscraper design and creating major civic and commercial landmarks.
  • E. George Foster Shepley
    George Foster Shepley was a prominent American architect known for his role in the influential Boston firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, which continued the legacy of H. H. Richardson.
  • 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_69a8864a83848190a4ec02721306c511 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb06829b081908767b3df5524c7d4 completed March 7, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adfba141fc819084cf5903eced2326 completed March 8, 2026, 10:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adfc3d37e4819082673b84eb5a19f2 completed March 8, 2026, 10:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adfd7ef5588190ab85f3981466d1e0 completed March 8, 2026, 10:51 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.