Triple

T3382321
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Boasian linguistics E71213 entity
Predicate keyFigure P256 FINISHED
Object Melville Jacobs
Melville Jacobs was an American anthropologist and linguist known for his influential fieldwork and documentation of Native American languages and oral traditions in the Pacific Northwest.
 E362112 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: Melville Jacobs | Statement: [Boasian linguistics, keyFigure, Melville Jacobs]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Melville Jacobs
Context triple: [Boasian linguistics, keyFigure, Melville Jacobs]
  • A. William Jacobs
    William Jacobs was an American film producer active during Hollywood's studio era, known for overseeing a range of genre films including classic horror titles.
  • B. Melville Tucker
    Melville Tucker is a film producer best known for his work on the 1980 comedy movie "Stir Crazy."
  • C. Ogden Mills Reid
    Ogden Mills Reid was an American newspaper publisher who led the New York Herald Tribune and was part of the influential Reid media family.
  • D. Henry Pilger
    Henry Pilger is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Pilger, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not readily available.
  • E. William Rose
    William Rose was an American screenwriter best known for his work on classic comedies such as "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner."
  • 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: Melville Jacobs
Triple: [Boasian linguistics, keyFigure, Melville Jacobs]
Generated description
Melville Jacobs was an American anthropologist and linguist known for his influential fieldwork and documentation of Native American languages and oral traditions in the Pacific Northwest.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Melville Jacobs
Target entity description: Melville Jacobs was an American anthropologist and linguist known for his influential fieldwork and documentation of Native American languages and oral traditions in the Pacific Northwest.
  • A. William Jacobs
    William Jacobs was an American film producer active during Hollywood's studio era, known for overseeing a range of genre films including classic horror titles.
  • B. Melville Tucker
    Melville Tucker is a film producer best known for his work on the 1980 comedy movie "Stir Crazy."
  • C. Ogden Mills Reid
    Ogden Mills Reid was an American newspaper publisher who led the New York Herald Tribune and was part of the influential Reid media family.
  • D. Henry Pilger
    Henry Pilger is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Pilger, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not readily available.
  • E. William Rose
    William Rose was an American screenwriter best known for his work on classic comedies such as "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner."
  • 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_69b3739e9c588190b04b041564c1272d completed March 13, 2026, 2:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b37425cee08190b64946c61f1c77b1 completed March 13, 2026, 2:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b3748ae12081909b5f2dfc412b3585 completed March 13, 2026, 2:20 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:14 p.m.