Triple
T4542570
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | northern elephant seal |
E107569
|
entity |
| Predicate | describedBy |
P264
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Theodore Nicholas Gill |
E268609
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Theodore Nicholas Gill | Statement: [northern elephant seal, describedBy, Theodore Nicholas Gill]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theodore Nicholas Gill Context triple: [northern elephant seal, describedBy, Theodore Nicholas Gill]
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A.
Theodore Gill
chosen
Theodore Gill was a 19th-century American ichthyologist and zoologist known for his extensive work in fish classification and taxonomy.
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B.
Elbert A. Smith
Elbert A. Smith was an American religious leader and writer who served as a prominent apostle and later Presiding Patriarch in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (now Community of Christ).
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C.
William Whiting Boardman
William Whiting Boardman was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician from Connecticut who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and held various state and local offices.
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D.
Elbert P. Tuttle
Elbert P. Tuttle was a prominent American judge who served as a leading figure on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, playing a key role in advancing civil rights in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Edmund G. Ross
Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69bd43f922788190b7edfa294e39b178 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd57d3be988190bf118c4a87415613 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 2:21 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cb59a7732c819095aa0903d419b740 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 5:20 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:04 p.m.