Triple

T49004
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cotton Mather E963 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Cotton
Cotton is a soft, natural fiber harvested from the seed pods of cotton plants and widely used in textiles and clothing.
E3906 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: Cotton | Statement: [Cotton Mather, givenName, Cotton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cotton
Context triple: [Cotton Mather, givenName, Cotton]
  • A. Cottonopolis
    Cottonopolis is a historical nickname for Manchester, England, reflecting its prominence as a major center of the cotton and textile industry during the Industrial Revolution.
  • B. Bluebonnet
    Bluebonnet is a vibrant blue wildflower, especially known for carpeting Texas fields each spring and serving as a symbol of the state's natural beauty.
  • C. Ulmus
    Ulmus is a genus of deciduous trees commonly known as elms, widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere and valued for their distinctive vase-shaped form and use in landscaping and timber.
  • D. Rosales
    Rosales is an order of flowering plants that includes many familiar trees, shrubs, and herbs such as elms, roses, and nettles.
  • E. The Bean
    The Bean is a famous stainless steel public sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor located in Chicago’s Millennium Park, renowned for its highly polished, reflective surface and iconic, bean-like shape.
  • 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: Cotton
Triple: [Cotton Mather, givenName, Cotton]
Generated description
Cotton is a soft, natural fiber harvested from the seed pods of cotton plants and widely used in textiles and clothing.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cotton
Target entity description: Cotton is a soft, natural fiber harvested from the seed pods of cotton plants and widely used in textiles and clothing.
  • A. Cottonopolis
    Cottonopolis is a historical nickname for Manchester, England, reflecting its prominence as a major center of the cotton and textile industry during the Industrial Revolution.
  • B. Bluebonnet
    Bluebonnet is a vibrant blue wildflower, especially known for carpeting Texas fields each spring and serving as a symbol of the state's natural beauty.
  • C. Flagg
    Flagg is a surname most notably associated with American artist and illustrator James Montgomery Flagg, famed for creating the iconic "I Want YOU for U.S. Army" Uncle Sam poster.
  • D. Shannon
    Shannon is a common Irish surname that originates from the River Shannon and is borne by numerous notable individuals, including mathematician and information theorist Claude Shannon.
  • E. Ulmus
    Ulmus is a genus of deciduous trees commonly known as elms, widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere and valued for their distinctive vase-shaped form and use in landscaping and timber.
  • 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_69a2480baefc81909951b14058479aa2 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:42 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24af3e4a88190abe2f0c5a0e83ff3 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:55 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a24e659ac48190a11b70a85867d784 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a24eff3f0881909b46502175682d99 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2542d9b388190bcc4581c3b79aa51 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:34 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:47 a.m.