Triple
T291252
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | What Is Life? |
E5997
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasContributor |
P4244
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Lynn Margulis |
E1643
|
NE FINISHED |
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: Lynn Margulis | Statement: [What Is Life?, hasContributor, Lynn Margulis]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lynn Margulis Context triple: [What Is Life?, hasContributor, Lynn Margulis]
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A.
Lynn Margulis
chosen
Lynn Margulis was an influential American biologist best known for developing the endosymbiotic theory, which revolutionized understanding of the origin of eukaryotic cells.
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B.
Rita R. Colwell
Rita R. Colwell is an American microbiologist and former director of the National Science Foundation renowned for her pioneering research on cholera and environmental microbiology.
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C.
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Theodosius Dobzhansky was a pioneering 20th-century geneticist and evolutionary biologist whose work integrating genetics with natural selection helped lay the foundations of the modern evolutionary synthesis.
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D.
G. Evelyn Hutchinson
G. Evelyn Hutchinson was a pioneering 20th-century ecologist often called the "father of modern ecology" for his influential work on ecological niches, limnology, and the theoretical foundations of population and community ecology.
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E.
James Lovelock
James Lovelock was an independent British scientist and environmentalist best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which views Earth as a self-regulating, living system.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a25946a7ac8190a78871c210213272 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:56 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a25e4f78bc81909a64fd6aaec3b504 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 3:17 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a3b071c6e881908e9ca17bd5dc911e |
completed | March 1, 2026, 3:20 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 3:02 a.m.