Triple

T4628694
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Theophrastus E101160 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object On the Causes of Plants
On the Causes of Plants is an ancient botanical treatise by Theophrastus that systematically investigates plant growth, reproduction, and cultivation practices in the classical world.
E457209 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: On the Causes of Plants | Statement: [Theophrastus, notableWork, On the Causes of Plants]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: On the Causes of Plants
Context triple: [Theophrastus, notableWork, On the Causes of Plants]
  • A. A Treatise on the Forces which Produce the Organization of Plants
    A Treatise on the Forces which Produce the Organization of Plants is a 19th-century scientific work by John W. Draper that explores the physical and chemical principles underlying plant structure and development.
  • B. Théorie élémentaire de la botanique
    Théorie élémentaire de la botanique is a foundational 19th-century botanical treatise that helped establish modern plant taxonomy and morphology.
  • C. Principles of Descriptive and Physiological Botany
    Principles of Descriptive and Physiological Botany is a 19th-century botanical textbook by John Stevens Henslow that systematically outlines plant structure, classification, and function for students of botany.
  • D. Linnaean sexual system of plants
    The Linnaean sexual system of plants is an 18th-century botanical classification method developed by Carl Linnaeus that groups plants based on the number and arrangement of their reproductive organs (stamens and pistils).
  • E. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis
    Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis is a monumental 19th-century multi-volume botanical work that attempted a comprehensive, natural classification and description of all known plant species.
  • 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: On the Causes of Plants
Triple: [Theophrastus, notableWork, On the Causes of Plants]
Generated description
On the Causes of Plants is an ancient botanical treatise by Theophrastus that systematically investigates plant growth, reproduction, and cultivation practices in the classical world.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: On the Causes of Plants
Target entity description: On the Causes of Plants is an ancient botanical treatise by Theophrastus that systematically investigates plant growth, reproduction, and cultivation practices in the classical world.
  • A. A Treatise on the Forces which Produce the Organization of Plants
    A Treatise on the Forces which Produce the Organization of Plants is a 19th-century scientific work by John W. Draper that explores the physical and chemical principles underlying plant structure and development.
  • B. Théorie élémentaire de la botanique
    Théorie élémentaire de la botanique is a foundational 19th-century botanical treatise that helped establish modern plant taxonomy and morphology.
  • C. Principles of Descriptive and Physiological Botany
    Principles of Descriptive and Physiological Botany is a 19th-century botanical textbook by John Stevens Henslow that systematically outlines plant structure, classification, and function for students of botany.
  • D. Linnaean sexual system of plants
    The Linnaean sexual system of plants is an 18th-century botanical classification method developed by Carl Linnaeus that groups plants based on the number and arrangement of their reproductive organs (stamens and pistils).
  • E. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis
    Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis is a monumental 19th-century multi-volume botanical work that attempted a comprehensive, natural classification and description of all known plant species.
  • 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_69bd43d0497c8190ac23c65c5804846a completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd5a300e6081909fa9f504aada33ea completed March 20, 2026, 2:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdfab4f4808190920e420f566dec9b completed March 21, 2026, 1:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdfc0964c881909e6b98a1c8ea747f completed March 21, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdfce1be788190ae3418df301e5136 completed March 21, 2026, 2:05 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:13 p.m.