Triple

T21979151
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brewster Medal E542789 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Joel Cracraft
Joel Cracraft is an American ornithologist and evolutionary biologist renowned for his work on avian systematics, biogeography, and the use of cladistics in understanding bird evolution.
E1513901 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: Joel Cracraft | Statement: [Brewster Medal, notableRecipient, Joel Cracraft]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joel Cracraft
Context triple: [Brewster Medal, notableRecipient, Joel Cracraft]
  • A. Paul M. Hebert
    Paul M. Hebert was a prominent American legal scholar and long-serving dean of the LSU law school whose leadership and contributions to legal education led to the institution being named in his honor.
  • B. Richard H. Truly
    Richard H. Truly is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy rear admiral who later served as the eighth Administrator of NASA.
  • C. Clifton R. Musser
    Clifton R. Musser was an individual significant enough in the field of economics or academia to have a professorship named in his honor.
  • D. Storrs L. Olson
    Storrs L. Olson was an influential American ornithologist and paleontologist known for his extensive work on the evolution and classification of birds, particularly from fossil records.
  • E. Charles G. Sibley
    Charles G. Sibley was an influential American ornithologist and molecular systematist whose pioneering DNA-based research reshaped the classification and evolutionary understanding of birds.
  • 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: Joel Cracraft
Triple: [Brewster Medal, notableRecipient, Joel Cracraft]
Generated description
Joel Cracraft is an American ornithologist and evolutionary biologist renowned for his work on avian systematics, biogeography, and the use of cladistics in understanding bird evolution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joel Cracraft
Target entity description: Joel Cracraft is an American ornithologist and evolutionary biologist renowned for his work on avian systematics, biogeography, and the use of cladistics in understanding bird evolution.
  • A. Paul M. Hebert
    Paul M. Hebert was a prominent American legal scholar and long-serving dean of the LSU law school whose leadership and contributions to legal education led to the institution being named in his honor.
  • B. Richard H. Truly
    Richard H. Truly is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy rear admiral who later served as the eighth Administrator of NASA.
  • C. Clifton R. Musser
    Clifton R. Musser was an individual significant enough in the field of economics or academia to have a professorship named in his honor.
  • D. Storrs L. Olson
    Storrs L. Olson was an influential American ornithologist and paleontologist known for his extensive work on the evolution and classification of birds, particularly from fossil records.
  • E. Charles G. Sibley
    Charles G. Sibley was an influential American ornithologist and molecular systematist whose pioneering DNA-based research reshaped the classification and evolutionary understanding of birds.
  • 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_69e0c48070988190909db97667b9a0ac completed April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1248bdd88819098bfeca550608f14 completed April 28, 2026, 9:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a7369ebd48190886004cacd06c9d3 completed May 18, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a7439a4448190abcb7d0c89bf9479 completed May 18, 2026, 2:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a74cd737c81909efa0eefe5eb8f52 completed May 18, 2026, 2:09 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:03 p.m.