Triple
T22561680
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Makapansgat, South Africa |
E557829
|
entity |
| Predicate | associatedWith |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Robert Broom |
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|
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: Robert Broom | Statement: [Makapansgat, South Africa, associatedWith, Robert Broom]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Broom Context triple: [Makapansgat, South Africa, associatedWith, Robert Broom]
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A.
Robert Broom
chosen
Robert Broom was a Scottish-South African paleontologist renowned for his pioneering discoveries of early hominin fossils that significantly advanced understanding of human evolution.
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B.
Raymond Dart
Raymond Dart was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist best known for identifying the Taung Child fossil and proposing the species Australopithecus africanus, which significantly advanced understanding of human evolution.
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C.
Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey was a renowned Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and political figure known for his groundbreaking fossil discoveries on human evolution and his leadership in wildlife protection.
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D.
Alfred Ernest Shennan
Alfred Ernest Shennan was a British architect known for designing notable civic buildings in the early 20th century.
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E.
Donald Johanson
Donald Johanson is an American paleoanthropologist best known for discovering the famous early hominin fossil "Lucy," which significantly advanced understanding of human evolution.
- 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_69e11e5ae4ac8190b1f503457603d969 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f15fa6a928819083925ea23aaaf725 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 1:32 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:52 p.m.