Triple
T343529
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | David Douglas |
E6888
|
entity |
| Predicate | name |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | David Douglas |
E6888
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: David Douglas | Statement: [David Douglas, name, David Douglas]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Douglas Context triple: [David Douglas, name, David Douglas]
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A.
David Douglas
chosen
David Douglas was a 19th-century Scottish botanist and plant collector renowned for introducing numerous North American tree species, including the Douglas fir, to Europe.
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B.
Robert Brown
Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist best known for his pioneering observations of the random motion of particles suspended in fluid, which led to the concept of Brownian motion.
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C.
Robert Fergusson
Robert Fergusson was an 18th-century Scottish poet whose vivid vernacular verse and depictions of Edinburgh life strongly influenced later writers, including Robert Burns.
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D.
William L Whittaker
William L. "Red" Whittaker is a pioneering roboticist and Carnegie Mellon University professor known for his groundbreaking work in field robotics and autonomous vehicles.
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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.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a2e7951ba08190960e90823b5078f3 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:03 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a2eb0019088190a9b969c4287dc4fa |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:17 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a3d4ea324c8190acd07727ca0ac193 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 5:55 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.