Triple

T34841
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mid-Atlantic Ridge E692 entity
Predicate mappedBy P37 FINISHED
Object Bruce C. Heezen
Bruce C. Heezen was an American geologist and oceanographer renowned for his pioneering work in seafloor mapping and the discovery of extensive mid-ocean ridge systems.
E8380 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Bruce C. Heezen | Statement: [Mid-Atlantic Ridge, mappedBy, Bruce C. Heezen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bruce C. Heezen
Context triple: [Mid-Atlantic Ridge, mappedBy, Bruce C. Heezen]
  • A. Marie Tharp
    Marie Tharp was an American geologist and oceanographic cartographer whose pioneering seafloor maps provided crucial evidence for plate tectonics and transformed our understanding of the ocean floor.
  • B. Detlev W. Bronk
    Detlev W. Bronk was an influential American scientist and educator known as a pioneer of biophysics and a prominent leader in national science policy.
  • C. Hugo van Lawick
    Hugo van Lawick was a Dutch wildlife filmmaker and photographer renowned for documenting African wildlife and extensively filming Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee research in Gombe.
  • D. Jacques Piccard
    Jacques Piccard was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer best known for co-piloting the bathyscaphe Trieste on the historic first crewed descent to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960.
  • E. Fridtjof Nansen
    Fridtjof Nansen was a Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, and humanitarian renowned for his Arctic expeditions and pioneering work on behalf of refugees after World War I.
  • 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: Bruce C. Heezen
Triple: [Mid-Atlantic Ridge, mappedBy, Bruce C. Heezen]
Generated description
Bruce C. Heezen was an American geologist and oceanographer renowned for his pioneering work in seafloor mapping and the discovery of extensive mid-ocean ridge systems.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bruce C. Heezen
Target entity description: Bruce C. Heezen was an American geologist and oceanographer renowned for his pioneering work in seafloor mapping and the discovery of extensive mid-ocean ridge systems.
  • A. Marie Tharp
    Marie Tharp was an American geologist and oceanographic cartographer whose pioneering seafloor maps provided crucial evidence for plate tectonics and transformed our understanding of the ocean floor.
  • B. Detlev W. Bronk
    Detlev W. Bronk was an influential American scientist and educator known as a pioneer of biophysics and a prominent leader in national science policy.
  • C. Hugo van Lawick
    Hugo van Lawick was a Dutch wildlife filmmaker and photographer renowned for documenting African wildlife and extensively filming Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee research in Gombe.
  • D. Jacques Piccard
    Jacques Piccard was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer best known for co-piloting the bathyscaphe Trieste on the historic first crewed descent to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960.
  • E. Fridtjof Nansen
    Fridtjof Nansen was a Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, and humanitarian renowned for his Arctic expeditions and pioneering work on behalf of refugees after World War I.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: mappedBy
Context triple: [Mid-Atlantic Ridge, mappedBy, Bruce C. Heezen]
  • A. ownedBy
    Indicates that one entity possesses legal or rightful ownership of another entity.
  • B. annexedBy
    Indicates that one entity has been incorporated into and brought under the control or sovereignty of another entity.
  • C. relatedTo chosen
    Indicates a general, non-specific relationship or association exists between two entities.
  • D. formedBy
    Indicates that something comes into existence or is created as a result of a specific agent, process, or combination of components.
  • E. attendedBy
    Indicates that an event, place, or activity is participated in or visited by a particular person or group.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69a2479dec388190967ba648663442c9 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2490019948190a89bb0910c60d462 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2623b6bb881909bcafff1aeb536e4 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:34 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a263865a9c81909fc29ddebe967035 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2644c9b8c8190a0da41b3e1e1dd47 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:43 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69a24872e4e481908567850168d65015 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:44 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:44 a.m.