Triple
T21248828
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | George Newbold Lawrence |
E523686
|
entity |
| Predicate | collaboratedWith |
P435
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Spencer Fullerton Baird |
—
|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Spencer Fullerton Baird | Statement: [George Newbold Lawrence, collaboratedWith, Spencer Fullerton Baird]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spencer Fullerton Baird Context triple: [George Newbold Lawrence, collaboratedWith, Spencer Fullerton Baird]
-
A.
Spencer Fullerton Baird
chosen
Spencer Fullerton Baird was a 19th-century American naturalist and ornithologist who became the second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and made major contributions to the study and cataloging of North American wildlife.
-
B.
Ernest Baird
Ernest Baird is a Northern Irish unionist politician best known for his role in founding and leading the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party during the Troubles.
-
C.
Clinton Hart Merriam
Clinton Hart Merriam was an American zoologist and ethnographer known for his pioneering work in North American mammalogy and biogeography.
-
D.
Robert Ridgway
Robert Ridgway was a prominent American ornithologist and illustrator known for his influential work in bird taxonomy and color standards in ornithology.
-
E.
William Temple Hornaday
William Temple Hornaday was an American zoologist and conservationist known for pioneering wildlife protection efforts and helping to save the American bison from extinction.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69e0b5146c108190adc9adb73e90abff |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e7359c7a648190b4345336ac3be024 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 8:30 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 3:56 p.m.