Triple

T3382264
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bureau of American Ethnology E71212 entity
Predicate employed P7 FINISHED
Object Frank Hamilton Cushing
Frank Hamilton Cushing was a pioneering American anthropologist and ethnologist best known for his immersive fieldwork among the Zuni people in the late 19th century.
E352732 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: Frank Hamilton Cushing | Statement: [Bureau of American Ethnology, employed, Frank Hamilton Cushing]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank Hamilton Cushing
Context triple: [Bureau of American Ethnology, employed, Frank Hamilton Cushing]
  • A. Othniel Charles Marsh
    Othniel Charles Marsh was a pioneering 19th-century American paleontologist known for his extensive dinosaur discoveries and his central role in the “Bone Wars” fossil-hunting rivalry.
  • B. John Galen Howard
    John Galen Howard was an influential American architect best known for shaping the early 20th-century architectural landscape of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
  • C. 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.
  • D. William Thomas Blanford
    William Thomas Blanford was a 19th-century English geologist and naturalist known for his extensive work in India, including significant contributions to zoology and ornithology.
  • E. Grove Karl Gilbert
    Grove Karl Gilbert was a pioneering American geologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned for his foundational work in geomorphology and studies of the western United States.
  • 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: Frank Hamilton Cushing
Triple: [Bureau of American Ethnology, employed, Frank Hamilton Cushing]
Generated description
Frank Hamilton Cushing was a pioneering American anthropologist and ethnologist best known for his immersive fieldwork among the Zuni people in the late 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank Hamilton Cushing
Target entity description: Frank Hamilton Cushing was a pioneering American anthropologist and ethnologist best known for his immersive fieldwork among the Zuni people in the late 19th century.
  • A. Othniel Charles Marsh
    Othniel Charles Marsh was a pioneering 19th-century American paleontologist known for his extensive dinosaur discoveries and his central role in the “Bone Wars” fossil-hunting rivalry.
  • B. John Galen Howard
    John Galen Howard was an influential American architect best known for shaping the early 20th-century architectural landscape of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
  • C. 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.
  • D. William Thomas Blanford
    William Thomas Blanford was a 19th-century English geologist and naturalist known for his extensive work in India, including significant contributions to zoology and ornithology.
  • E. Grove Karl Gilbert
    Grove Karl Gilbert was a pioneering American geologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned for his foundational work in geomorphology and studies of the western United States.
  • 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_69ad85a8fd9c819095ecedf838d2bf1b completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb5e9af608190bfb228ef99a87bb7 completed March 8, 2026, 5:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b33452d79081909bf6955289e0dece completed March 12, 2026, 9:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b334f75e708190aed8b388c9ea55d2 completed March 12, 2026, 9:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b3359ab56881908e247ba54c7dd6c7 completed March 12, 2026, 9:52 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:14 p.m.