Triple

T44909
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rita R. Colwell E882 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Colwell
Colwell is a surname most notably associated with Rita R. Colwell, an influential American microbiologist and former director of the U.S. National Science Foundation.
 E11474 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: Colwell | Statement: [Rita R. Colwell, familyName, Colwell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Colwell
Context triple: [Rita R. Colwell, familyName, Colwell]
  • A. Valley Wells
    Valley Wells is a small locality situated within California’s Mojave Desert, known primarily as a remote desert community along major regional travel routes.
  • B. Bladon
    Bladon is a village in Oxfordshire, England, best known as the burial place of Sir Winston Churchill.
  • C. Goodhue
    Goodhue is a surname most notably associated with Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, an influential American architect known for his Gothic Revival and early modernist designs.
  • D. Kanesville
    Kanesville was the mid-19th-century Mormon settlement that later became the city of Council Bluffs, Iowa.
  • E. Sachse
    Sachse is a suburban city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area of northeastern Texas.
  • 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: Colwell
Triple: [Rita R. Colwell, familyName, Colwell]
Generated description
Colwell is a surname most notably associated with Rita R. Colwell, an influential American microbiologist and former director of the U.S. National Science Foundation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Colwell
Target entity description: Colwell is a surname most notably associated with Rita R. Colwell, an influential American microbiologist and former director of the U.S. National Science Foundation.
  • A. Valley Wells
    Valley Wells is a small locality situated within California’s Mojave Desert, known primarily as a remote desert community along major regional travel routes.
  • B. Bladon
    Bladon is a village in Oxfordshire, England, best known as the burial place of Sir Winston Churchill.
  • C. Goodhue
    Goodhue is a surname most notably associated with Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, an influential American architect known for his Gothic Revival and early modernist designs.
  • D. Kanesville
    Kanesville was the mid-19th-century Mormon settlement that later became the city of Council Bluffs, Iowa.
  • E. Sachse
    Sachse is a suburban city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area of northeastern Texas.
  • 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_69a247a8f6c08190bac804906d62ed5a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24af153b08190b0875b86d591d473 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:54 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a27bfdda548190ae43a219cb555ad0 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a27dc7ee4c8190802b9c9a3c2c1270 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a27e2dcde48190a8ff74be207f9f07 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:33 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:46 a.m.