Triple

T4322937
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Romneya coulteri E96559 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Thomas Coulter
Thomas Coulter was a 19th-century Irish physician, botanist, and explorer known for his plant collections in Mexico and the southwestern United States.
E442808 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: Thomas Coulter | Statement: [Romneya coulteri, namedAfter, Thomas Coulter]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Coulter
Context triple: [Romneya coulteri, namedAfter, Thomas Coulter]
  • A. Ed McCauley
    Ed McCauley is a Canadian academic and research leader who serves as president of the University of Calgary.
  • B. Austin Currie
    Austin Currie was an Irish civil rights activist and politician who played a key role in the Northern Ireland civil rights movement and later served in both the Northern Ireland Parliament and the Irish Dáil.
  • C. Mark O’Connor
    Mark O’Connor is an American violinist, composer, and fiddler renowned for blending classical, jazz, and American folk traditions, particularly in contemporary string music.
  • D. Kevin Cossom
    Kevin Cossom is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer known for his R&B and hip-hop collaborations and songwriting for major artists.
  • E. James Finlayson
    James Finlayson was a Scottish-born character actor best known for his comic roles in silent and early sound films, particularly his frequent collaborations with the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.
  • 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: Thomas Coulter
Triple: [Romneya coulteri, namedAfter, Thomas Coulter]
Generated description
Thomas Coulter was a 19th-century Irish physician, botanist, and explorer known for his plant collections in Mexico and the southwestern United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Coulter
Target entity description: Thomas Coulter was a 19th-century Irish physician, botanist, and explorer known for his plant collections in Mexico and the southwestern United States.
  • A. Ed McCauley
    Ed McCauley is a Canadian academic and research leader who serves as president of the University of Calgary.
  • B. Austin Currie
    Austin Currie was an Irish civil rights activist and politician who played a key role in the Northern Ireland civil rights movement and later served in both the Northern Ireland Parliament and the Irish Dáil.
  • C. Mark O’Connor
    Mark O’Connor is an American violinist, composer, and fiddler renowned for blending classical, jazz, and American folk traditions, particularly in contemporary string music.
  • D. Kevin Cossom
    Kevin Cossom is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer known for his R&B and hip-hop collaborations and songwriting for major artists.
  • E. James Finlayson
    James Finlayson was a Scottish-born character actor best known for his comic roles in silent and early sound films, particularly his frequent collaborations with the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.
  • 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_69b345422aac81909ddbadae437d122e completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b351177eb88190b89fa49a88add5e8 completed March 12, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b627cfba848190a56a25c6d7d750c7 completed March 15, 2026, 3:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b628fe10908190978dd0361628f54f completed March 15, 2026, 3:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b629ab52c881909f7fbef6f77b5bc4 completed March 15, 2026, 3:38 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:12 p.m.