Triple

T20696166
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pipilo E508663 entity
Predicate notableSpeciesCommonName P965 FINISHED
Object White-throated Towhee
The White-throated Towhee is a medium-sized, ground-foraging New World sparrow known for its distinctive white throat and preference for brushy habitats in Mexico.
E1456150 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: White-throated Towhee | Statement: [Pipilo, notableSpeciesCommonName, White-throated Towhee]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: White-throated Towhee
Context triple: [Pipilo, notableSpeciesCommonName, White-throated Towhee]
  • A. Eastern Towhee
    The Eastern Towhee is a large, striking North American sparrow known for its bold black, white, and rufous plumage and its distinctive “drink-your-tea” song.
  • B. Spotted Towhee
    The Spotted Towhee is a striking North American sparrow known for its bold black, white, and rufous plumage and its loud, scratchy song often heard in shrubby habitats.
  • C. Collared Towhee
    The Collared Towhee is a species of New World sparrow in the genus Pipilo, known for its distinctive dark head and chest band contrasting with a lighter body and its preference for brushy, montane habitats in Mexico and Central America.
  • D. Green-tailed Towhee
    The Green-tailed Towhee is a small, ground-foraging New World sparrow known for its olive-green tail, rufous crown, and preference for shrubby habitats in the western United States and Mexico.
  • E. Cassin’s Sparrow
    Cassin’s Sparrow is a small, streaky brown songbird of arid grasslands in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, noted for its skylarking display flights and subtle plumage.
  • 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: White-throated Towhee
Triple: [Pipilo, notableSpeciesCommonName, White-throated Towhee]
Generated description
The White-throated Towhee is a medium-sized, ground-foraging New World sparrow known for its distinctive white throat and preference for brushy habitats in Mexico.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: White-throated Towhee
Target entity description: The White-throated Towhee is a medium-sized, ground-foraging New World sparrow known for its distinctive white throat and preference for brushy habitats in Mexico.
  • A. Eastern Towhee
    The Eastern Towhee is a large, striking North American sparrow known for its bold black, white, and rufous plumage and its distinctive “drink-your-tea” song.
  • B. Spotted Towhee
    The Spotted Towhee is a striking North American sparrow known for its bold black, white, and rufous plumage and its loud, scratchy song often heard in shrubby habitats.
  • C. Collared Towhee
    The Collared Towhee is a species of New World sparrow in the genus Pipilo, known for its distinctive dark head and chest band contrasting with a lighter body and its preference for brushy, montane habitats in Mexico and Central America.
  • D. Green-tailed Towhee
    The Green-tailed Towhee is a small, ground-foraging New World sparrow known for its olive-green tail, rufous crown, and preference for shrubby habitats in the western United States and Mexico.
  • E. Cassin’s Sparrow
    Cassin’s Sparrow is a small, streaky brown songbird of arid grasslands in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, noted for its skylarking display flights and subtle plumage.
  • 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_69e0b4c2b2a481909e31e9cb8f81ab55 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6c1123d7c81908a1d16923437266d completed April 21, 2026, 12:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0918b6f4788190838893fac16ab4cf completed May 17, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0919608d148190aaf1abee12fe8935 completed May 17, 2026, 1:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0919f58008819097e05a187ed4b3de completed May 17, 2026, 1:29 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:10 p.m.