Triple

T3716294
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lake Turkana E81538 entity
Predicate associatedWithDiscovery P2830 FINISHED
Object Turkana Boy fossil
The Turkana Boy fossil is an exceptionally well-preserved nearly complete skeleton of a Homo erectus (or Homo ergaster) youth from about 1.6 million years ago that has provided crucial insights into early human growth and anatomy.
E382746 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: Turkana Boy fossil | Statement: [Lake Turkana, associatedWithDiscovery, Turkana Boy fossil]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Turkana Boy fossil
Context triple: [Lake Turkana, associatedWithDiscovery, Turkana Boy fossil]
  • A. Naledi
    Naledi is a residential township neighborhood within Soweto, a large urban area southwest of Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • B. Hall of Human Origins
    The Hall of Human Origins is a major exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History that explores the science and story of human evolution through fossils, artifacts, and interactive displays.
  • C. Dmanisi
    Dmanisi is an archaeological site and town in southern Georgia renowned for yielding some of the earliest known hominin fossils outside Africa.
  • D. Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis cast)
    Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis cast) is a replica of the famous 3.2-million-year-old hominin fossil that provides key evidence for early human bipedalism and evolution.
  • E. Tendaguru Formation
    The Tendaguru Formation is a renowned fossil-rich sedimentary deposit in Tanzania that has yielded some of the most important Late Jurassic dinosaur and marine reptile remains in Africa.
  • 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: Turkana Boy fossil
Triple: [Lake Turkana, associatedWithDiscovery, Turkana Boy fossil]
Generated description
The Turkana Boy fossil is an exceptionally well-preserved nearly complete skeleton of a Homo erectus (or Homo ergaster) youth from about 1.6 million years ago that has provided crucial insights into early human growth and anatomy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Turkana Boy fossil
Target entity description: The Turkana Boy fossil is an exceptionally well-preserved nearly complete skeleton of a Homo erectus (or Homo ergaster) youth from about 1.6 million years ago that has provided crucial insights into early human growth and anatomy.
  • A. Naledi
    Naledi is a residential township neighborhood within Soweto, a large urban area southwest of Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • B. Hall of Human Origins
    The Hall of Human Origins is a major exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History that explores the science and story of human evolution through fossils, artifacts, and interactive displays.
  • C. Dmanisi
    Dmanisi is an archaeological site and town in southern Georgia renowned for yielding some of the earliest known hominin fossils outside Africa.
  • D. Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis cast)
    Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis cast) is a replica of the famous 3.2-million-year-old hominin fossil that provides key evidence for early human bipedalism and evolution.
  • E. Tendaguru Formation
    The Tendaguru Formation is a renowned fossil-rich sedimentary deposit in Tanzania that has yielded some of the most important Late Jurassic dinosaur and marine reptile remains in Africa.
  • 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_69ad8b1a81588190b3f27a5483bb610e completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc9cf77dc819098979094172d82d1 completed March 8, 2026, 7:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4ce0f690c819091d9caf9271f9bbd completed March 14, 2026, 2:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4cf6a84fc8190b07fbc31621bd871 completed March 14, 2026, 3 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4d32caa7c81908332ac23bd4d9571 completed March 14, 2026, 3:17 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:33 p.m.