Triple

T2452592
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject New York Botanical Garden E53739 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Nathaniel Lord Britton
Nathaniel Lord Britton was an American botanist and taxonomist renowned for co-founding and directing the New York Botanical Garden and for his influential work on the flora of North America and the Caribbean.
E269793 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: Nathaniel Lord Britton | Statement: [New York Botanical Garden, foundedBy, Nathaniel Lord Britton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nathaniel Lord Britton
Context triple: [New York Botanical Garden, foundedBy, Nathaniel Lord Britton]
  • A. Theodore Gill
    Theodore Gill was a 19th-century American ichthyologist and zoologist known for his extensive work in fish classification and taxonomy.
  • B. James Dwight Dana
    James Dwight Dana was a prominent 19th-century American geologist, mineralogist, and zoologist known for his influential works on volcanic activity, mountain-building, and systematic mineral classification.
  • C. Olin Levi Warner
    Olin Levi Warner was a prominent 19th-century American sculptor known for his portrait busts, reliefs, and architectural sculpture on major public buildings.
  • D. S. G. Goodrich
    S. G. Goodrich was a 19th-century American author, editor, and publisher best known for his popular educational works under the pseudonym "Peter Parley."
  • E. John Cassin
    John Cassin was a 19th-century American ornithologist known for describing numerous bird species and contributing significantly to early American bird taxonomy.
  • 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: Nathaniel Lord Britton
Triple: [New York Botanical Garden, foundedBy, Nathaniel Lord Britton]
Generated description
Nathaniel Lord Britton was an American botanist and taxonomist renowned for co-founding and directing the New York Botanical Garden and for his influential work on the flora of North America and the Caribbean.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nathaniel Lord Britton
Target entity description: Nathaniel Lord Britton was an American botanist and taxonomist renowned for co-founding and directing the New York Botanical Garden and for his influential work on the flora of North America and the Caribbean.
  • A. Theodore Gill
    Theodore Gill was a 19th-century American ichthyologist and zoologist known for his extensive work in fish classification and taxonomy.
  • B. James Dwight Dana
    James Dwight Dana was a prominent 19th-century American geologist, mineralogist, and zoologist known for his influential works on volcanic activity, mountain-building, and systematic mineral classification.
  • C. Olin Levi Warner
    Olin Levi Warner was a prominent 19th-century American sculptor known for his portrait busts, reliefs, and architectural sculpture on major public buildings.
  • D. S. G. Goodrich
    S. G. Goodrich was a 19th-century American author, editor, and publisher best known for his popular educational works under the pseudonym "Peter Parley."
  • E. John Cassin
    John Cassin was a 19th-century American ornithologist known for describing numerous bird species and contributing significantly to early American bird taxonomy.
  • 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_69ab495d227c8190b26ae6548eeb1019 completed March 6, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd0f699308190910a41520dc9efdb completed March 7, 2026, 7:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af17932530819097caefff366e2183 completed March 9, 2026, 6:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af18e9d328819096130bc1631a5005 completed March 9, 2026, 7 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af19608cd48190aae972259090e0ee completed March 9, 2026, 7:02 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:43 p.m.