Triple

T22935137
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Marine Ecoregions of the World E569558 entity
Predicate hasAuthor P4244 FINISHED
Object Mark D. Spalding
Mark D. Spalding is a marine scientist and conservationist known for his influential work on global marine biogeography and ecosystem classification.
E1562431 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: Mark D. Spalding | Statement: [Marine Ecoregions of the World, hasAuthor, Mark D. Spalding]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mark D. Spalding
Context triple: [Marine Ecoregions of the World, hasAuthor, Mark D. Spalding]
  • A. Edward J. Sparling
    Edward J. Sparling was an American educator and university administrator best known as the founding president of Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he championed social justice and inclusive admissions policies.
  • B. Gary F. Simons
    Gary F. Simons is a linguist and language documentation specialist known for his long-term leadership and editorial work on global language cataloging and classification projects.
  • C. David Dinerstein
    David Dinerstein is a film producer and distributor known for championing independent and documentary cinema, including the acclaimed music documentary "Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)."
  • D. Timothy J. Mara
    Timothy J. Mara is a member of the Mara family, the longtime owners of the NFL’s New York Giants franchise.
  • E. Neil M. Judd
    Neil M. Judd was an American archaeologist known for his pioneering early 20th-century excavations and research on Ancestral Puebloan sites in the American Southwest.
  • 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: Mark D. Spalding
Triple: [Marine Ecoregions of the World, hasAuthor, Mark D. Spalding]
Generated description
Mark D. Spalding is a marine scientist and conservationist known for his influential work on global marine biogeography and ecosystem classification.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mark D. Spalding
Target entity description: Mark D. Spalding is a marine scientist and conservationist known for his influential work on global marine biogeography and ecosystem classification.
  • A. Edward J. Sparling
    Edward J. Sparling was an American educator and university administrator best known as the founding president of Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he championed social justice and inclusive admissions policies.
  • B. Gary F. Simons
    Gary F. Simons is a linguist and language documentation specialist known for his long-term leadership and editorial work on global language cataloging and classification projects.
  • C. David Dinerstein
    David Dinerstein is a film producer and distributor known for championing independent and documentary cinema, including the acclaimed music documentary "Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)."
  • D. Timothy J. Mara
    Timothy J. Mara is a member of the Mara family, the longtime owners of the NFL’s New York Giants franchise.
  • E. Neil M. Judd
    Neil M. Judd was an American archaeologist known for his pioneering early 20th-century excavations and research on Ancestral Puebloan sites in the American Southwest.
  • 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_69e24590862c8190858f180ad302adab completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f181350c7881908a72dc7a30e1aaff completed April 29, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0bc24ea8bc8190bb7cb6e9475d6641 completed May 19, 2026, 1:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0bc3dea31c8190ab517e43c9061eec completed May 19, 2026, 1:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0bc46fd3d0819094a532a8d6a0b9b2 completed May 19, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:44 p.m.