Triple

T298158
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cervidae E6137 entity
Predicate describedBy P264 FINISHED
Object John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray was a 19th-century British zoologist and taxonomist known for his extensive work classifying mammals, reptiles, and other animal groups while working at the British Museum.
E39454 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: John Edward Gray | Statement: [Cervidae, describedBy, John Edward Gray]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Edward Gray
Context triple: [Cervidae, describedBy, John Edward Gray]
  • A. Nicholas Aylward Vigors
    Nicholas Aylward Vigors was a 19th-century Irish zoologist and politician known for his influential work in ornithology and the classification of birds.
  • B. Thomas Henry Huxley
    Thomas Henry Huxley was a 19th-century English biologist and public intellectual known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his vigorous advocacy of evolutionary theory and his contributions to comparative anatomy and science education.
  • C. Thomas Horsfield
    Thomas Horsfield was a 19th-century American physician and naturalist known for his influential zoological and botanical work in Southeast Asia.
  • D. Alfred Russel Wallace
    Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist and explorer who independently conceived the theory of evolution by natural selection and is considered a co-founder of evolutionary biology alongside Charles Darwin.
  • E. John Stevens Henslow
    John Stevens Henslow was a 19th-century English clergyman, botanist, and geologist best known as Charles Darwin’s mentor and a pioneering botanical educator.
  • 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: John Edward Gray
Triple: [Cervidae, describedBy, John Edward Gray]
Generated description
John Edward Gray was a 19th-century British zoologist and taxonomist known for his extensive work classifying mammals, reptiles, and other animal groups while working at the British Museum.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Edward Gray
Target entity description: John Edward Gray was a 19th-century British zoologist and taxonomist known for his extensive work classifying mammals, reptiles, and other animal groups while working at the British Museum.
  • A. Nicholas Aylward Vigors
    Nicholas Aylward Vigors was a 19th-century Irish zoologist and politician known for his influential work in ornithology and the classification of birds.
  • B. Thomas Henry Huxley
    Thomas Henry Huxley was a 19th-century English biologist and public intellectual known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his vigorous advocacy of evolutionary theory and his contributions to comparative anatomy and science education.
  • C. Thomas Horsfield
    Thomas Horsfield was a 19th-century American physician and naturalist known for his influential zoological and botanical work in Southeast Asia.
  • D. Alfred Russel Wallace
    Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist and explorer who independently conceived the theory of evolution by natural selection and is considered a co-founder of evolutionary biology alongside Charles Darwin.
  • E. John Stevens Henslow
    John Stevens Henslow was a 19th-century English clergyman, botanist, and geologist best known as Charles Darwin’s mentor and a pioneering botanical educator.
  • 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_69a2e79114b081909490b3bf5a5dbb51 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2e9e3acc08190a35746f2de7e30f0 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3b47185f48190813159f932c0af9a completed March 1, 2026, 3:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3b4da227c8190bb172bb78484ce46 completed March 1, 2026, 3:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3b52e995c819084fe2b4983f6cfcc completed March 1, 2026, 3:40 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.