Triple

T3382265
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bureau of American Ethnology E71212 entity
Predicate employed P7 FINISHED
Object John R. Swanton
John R. Swanton was an American anthropologist and ethnologist known for his influential research on Native American cultures, languages, and folklore.
E354431 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 R. Swanton | Statement: [Bureau of American Ethnology, employed, John R. Swanton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John R. Swanton
Context triple: [Bureau of American Ethnology, employed, John R. Swanton]
  • A. Matthew Meigs
    Matthew Meigs was an American educator and Presbyterian minister best known for establishing The Hill School, a prominent preparatory boarding school in Pennsylvania.
  • B. J. Walter Fewkes
    J. Walter Fewkes was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering studies of Native American cultures, particularly the Hopi and other Pueblo peoples, and for his influential work in early ethnographic field recording.
  • C. William A. Clark
    William A. Clark was a wealthy 19th-century American copper magnate and U.S. senator from Montana, often cited as an archetype of the Gilded Age industrialist and political power broker.
  • D. Theodore Gill
    Theodore Gill was a 19th-century American ichthyologist and zoologist known for his extensive work in fish classification and taxonomy.
  • E. Joseph R. Walker
    Joseph R. Walker was a 19th-century American mountain man and explorer known for pioneering routes across the Sierra Nevada and the American West.
  • 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 R. Swanton
Triple: [Bureau of American Ethnology, employed, John R. Swanton]
Generated description
John R. Swanton was an American anthropologist and ethnologist known for his influential research on Native American cultures, languages, and folklore.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John R. Swanton
Target entity description: John R. Swanton was an American anthropologist and ethnologist known for his influential research on Native American cultures, languages, and folklore.
  • A. Matthew Meigs
    Matthew Meigs was an American educator and Presbyterian minister best known for establishing The Hill School, a prominent preparatory boarding school in Pennsylvania.
  • B. J. Walter Fewkes
    J. Walter Fewkes was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering studies of Native American cultures, particularly the Hopi and other Pueblo peoples, and for his influential work in early ethnographic field recording.
  • C. William A. Clark
    William A. Clark was a wealthy 19th-century American copper magnate and U.S. senator from Montana, often cited as an archetype of the Gilded Age industrialist and political power broker.
  • D. Theodore Gill
    Theodore Gill was a 19th-century American ichthyologist and zoologist known for his extensive work in fish classification and taxonomy.
  • E. Joseph R. Walker
    Joseph R. Walker was a 19th-century American mountain man and explorer known for pioneering routes across the Sierra Nevada and the American West.
  • 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_69b34bc3f13c81909bec375bd080b7f3 completed March 12, 2026, 11:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b34e45a6c08190a0011eaa60f3d50a completed March 12, 2026, 11:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b34eba517881908806b1ac285448ff completed March 12, 2026, 11:39 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:14 p.m.