Triple

T4509938
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Robert Paul Smith E102024 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Time of the Buffalo
The Time of the Buffalo is a nonfiction book by Robert Paul Smith that explores the history, ecology, and cultural significance of the American buffalo.
E448420 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: The Time of the Buffalo | Statement: [Robert Paul Smith, notableWork, The Time of the Buffalo]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Time of the Buffalo
Context triple: [Robert Paul Smith, notableWork, The Time of the Buffalo]
  • A. The Last of the Buffalo
    The Last of the Buffalo is a late 19th-century painting by Albert Bierstadt that dramatically depicts the near-extinction of American bison on the Great Plains, symbolizing the end of the American frontier.
  • B. Lords of the Plains
    Lords of the Plains is a renowned epithet for the Comanche, a Native American people historically famed for their exceptional horsemanship, warrior culture, and dominance across the Southern Plains.
  • C. Little Big Man
    Little Big Man is a 1970 American Western-comedy film starring Dustin Hoffman that satirically reexamines U.S. frontier history and Native American relations.
  • D. Red Cloud's War
    Red Cloud's War was an armed conflict from 1866 to 1868 in which Oglala Lakota leader Red Cloud successfully resisted U.S. military expansion along the Bozeman Trail in present-day Wyoming and Montana.
  • E. End of the Trail
    End of the Trail is a famous early 20th-century bronze sculpture depicting a weary Native American warrior slumped on his exhausted horse, symbolizing the suffering and displacement of Indigenous peoples in the United States.
  • 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: The Time of the Buffalo
Triple: [Robert Paul Smith, notableWork, The Time of the Buffalo]
Generated description
The Time of the Buffalo is a nonfiction book by Robert Paul Smith that explores the history, ecology, and cultural significance of the American buffalo.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Time of the Buffalo
Target entity description: The Time of the Buffalo is a nonfiction book by Robert Paul Smith that explores the history, ecology, and cultural significance of the American buffalo.
  • A. The Last of the Buffalo
    The Last of the Buffalo is a late 19th-century painting by Albert Bierstadt that dramatically depicts the near-extinction of American bison on the Great Plains, symbolizing the end of the American frontier.
  • B. Lords of the Plains
    Lords of the Plains is a renowned epithet for the Comanche, a Native American people historically famed for their exceptional horsemanship, warrior culture, and dominance across the Southern Plains.
  • C. Little Big Man
    Little Big Man is a 1970 American Western-comedy film starring Dustin Hoffman that satirically reexamines U.S. frontier history and Native American relations.
  • D. Red Cloud's War
    Red Cloud's War was an armed conflict from 1866 to 1868 in which Oglala Lakota leader Red Cloud successfully resisted U.S. military expansion along the Bozeman Trail in present-day Wyoming and Montana.
  • E. End of the Trail
    End of the Trail is a famous early 20th-century bronze sculpture depicting a weary Native American warrior slumped on his exhausted horse, symbolizing the suffering and displacement of Indigenous peoples in the United States.
  • 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_69bd43d6251c81909deecce3e6e9d69c completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd571138b88190b68bbfc4300aaf9d completed March 20, 2026, 2:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bd7f814dd081908b07ce0c2abee3c1 completed March 20, 2026, 5:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bd84bae7148190ae201ea5257dd43e completed March 20, 2026, 5:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bd857181e4819086b7d0b493fbb9a3 completed March 20, 2026, 5:35 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:01 p.m.