Triple
T490969
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Dorion Sagan |
E9987
|
entity |
| Predicate | mother |
P120
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Lynn Margulis |
E1643
|
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: Lynn Margulis | Statement: [Dorion Sagan, mother, Lynn Margulis]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lynn Margulis Context triple: [Dorion Sagan, mother, Lynn Margulis]
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A.
Lynn Margulis
chosen
Lynn Margulis was an influential American biologist best known for developing the endosymbiotic theory, which revolutionized understanding of the origin of eukaryotic cells.
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B.
Carl Woese
Carl Woese was an American microbiologist and biophysicist best known for revolutionizing the tree of life by using ribosomal RNA sequencing to identify Archaea as a distinct domain of life.
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C.
Rita R. Colwell
Rita R. Colwell is an American microbiologist and former director of the National Science Foundation renowned for her pioneering research on cholera and environmental microbiology.
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D.
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Theodosius Dobzhansky was a pioneering 20th-century geneticist and evolutionary biologist whose work integrating genetics with natural selection helped lay the foundations of the modern evolutionary synthesis.
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E.
G. Evelyn Hutchinson
G. Evelyn Hutchinson was a pioneering 20th-century ecologist often called the "father of modern ecology" for his influential work on ecological niches, limnology, and the theoretical foundations of population and community ecology.
- 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_69a2e802e2908190ab17c9479e0b6412 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a2f0e22a308190b04d12974fd08a38 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:42 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a47d2a78a48190ac5a1e7f57f9dbd1 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 5:53 p.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.