Triple

T3200207
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject HMS Challenger E67030 entity
Predicate expeditionLeader P1561 FINISHED
Object Charles Wyville Thomson
Charles Wyville Thomson was a 19th-century Scottish naturalist and marine zoologist best known for leading the pioneering Challenger expedition that laid the foundations of modern oceanography.
E336455 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: Charles Wyville Thomson | Statement: [HMS Challenger, expeditionLeader, Charles Wyville Thomson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Wyville Thomson
Context triple: [HMS Challenger, expeditionLeader, Charles Wyville Thomson]
  • A. Archibald Geikie
    Archibald Geikie was a prominent 19th–20th century Scottish geologist known for his influential work on igneous rocks, geological mapping, and for serving as Director-General of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom.
  • B. Caspar René Gregory
    Caspar René Gregory was a German-American theologian and New Testament textual critic best known for developing the Gregory–Aland numbering system for classifying Greek New Testament manuscripts.
  • C. George Robert Gray
    George Robert Gray was a 19th-century British zoologist and ornithologist known for his influential work on bird classification and species descriptions at the British Museum.
  • D. Roderick Murchison
    Roderick Murchison was a prominent 19th-century Scottish geologist best known for his work on the Silurian system and for helping establish modern stratigraphy.
  • E. William Gosse
    William Gosse was a 19th-century British-born Australian explorer best known for being the first European to document and name Uluru (then Ayers Rock) during his expeditions in central Australia.
  • 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: Charles Wyville Thomson
Triple: [HMS Challenger, expeditionLeader, Charles Wyville Thomson]
Generated description
Charles Wyville Thomson was a 19th-century Scottish naturalist and marine zoologist best known for leading the pioneering Challenger expedition that laid the foundations of modern oceanography.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Wyville Thomson
Target entity description: Charles Wyville Thomson was a 19th-century Scottish naturalist and marine zoologist best known for leading the pioneering Challenger expedition that laid the foundations of modern oceanography.
  • A. Archibald Geikie
    Archibald Geikie was a prominent 19th–20th century Scottish geologist known for his influential work on igneous rocks, geological mapping, and for serving as Director-General of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom.
  • B. Caspar René Gregory
    Caspar René Gregory was a German-American theologian and New Testament textual critic best known for developing the Gregory–Aland numbering system for classifying Greek New Testament manuscripts.
  • C. George Robert Gray
    George Robert Gray was a 19th-century British zoologist and ornithologist known for his influential work on bird classification and species descriptions at the British Museum.
  • D. Roderick Murchison
    Roderick Murchison was a prominent 19th-century Scottish geologist best known for his work on the Silurian system and for helping establish modern stratigraphy.
  • E. William Gosse
    William Gosse was a 19th-century British-born Australian explorer best known for being the first European to document and name Uluru (then Ayers Rock) during his expeditions in central Australia.
  • 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_69ad8589bd988190afa7ed2bdffb7b33 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada9ad4b1c8190bc6ad0f025f238c8 completed March 8, 2026, 4:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b24bc3695c8190abd58dbc74ca2271 completed March 12, 2026, 5:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b24d677ca8819094cb03360ac885da completed March 12, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b2517e2afc8190a6f8dfa66d3671d5 completed March 12, 2026, 5:39 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:07 p.m.