Triple

T5133859
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Meadows E115767 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Donella Meadows
Donella Meadows was an American environmental scientist, systems thinker, and author best known for co-writing "The Limits to Growth" and pioneering work in sustainability and systems dynamics.
E496821 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: Donella Meadows | Statement: [Meadows, hasNotableBearer, Donella Meadows]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donella Meadows
Context triple: [Meadows, hasNotableBearer, Donella Meadows]
  • A. Gretchen C. Daily
    Gretchen C. Daily is an American ecologist and conservation biologist renowned for pioneering the concept of ecosystem services and integrating biodiversity conservation with economic and policy decision-making.
  • B. Anne H. Ehrlich
    Anne H. Ehrlich is an American environmentalist and author known for her collaborative work on population, ecology, and conservation issues, often co-writing influential books and articles with her husband, biologist Paul R. Ehrlich.
  • C. Joanna Macy
    Joanna Macy is an American Buddhist scholar, environmental activist, and systems theorist known for pioneering socially engaged Buddhism and developing "The Work That Reconnects," a framework for personal and ecological transformation.
  • D. Thomas E. Lovejoy
    Thomas E. Lovejoy was an influential American ecologist and conservation biologist known for pioneering work on biodiversity, tropical forest conservation, and the concept of "debt of extinction."
  • E. Johan Rockström
    Johan Rockström is a Swedish environmental scientist best known for developing the planetary boundaries framework and leading global research on sustainability and climate resilience.
  • 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: Donella Meadows
Triple: [Meadows, hasNotableBearer, Donella Meadows]
Generated description
Donella Meadows was an American environmental scientist, systems thinker, and author best known for co-writing "The Limits to Growth" and pioneering work in sustainability and systems dynamics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donella Meadows
Target entity description: Donella Meadows was an American environmental scientist, systems thinker, and author best known for co-writing "The Limits to Growth" and pioneering work in sustainability and systems dynamics.
  • A. Gretchen C. Daily
    Gretchen C. Daily is an American ecologist and conservation biologist renowned for pioneering the concept of ecosystem services and integrating biodiversity conservation with economic and policy decision-making.
  • B. Anne H. Ehrlich
    Anne H. Ehrlich is an American environmentalist and author known for her collaborative work on population, ecology, and conservation issues, often co-writing influential books and articles with her husband, biologist Paul R. Ehrlich.
  • C. Joanna Macy
    Joanna Macy is an American Buddhist scholar, environmental activist, and systems theorist known for pioneering socially engaged Buddhism and developing "The Work That Reconnects," a framework for personal and ecological transformation.
  • D. Thomas E. Lovejoy
    Thomas E. Lovejoy was an influential American ecologist and conservation biologist known for pioneering work on biodiversity, tropical forest conservation, and the concept of "debt of extinction."
  • E. Johan Rockström
    Johan Rockström is a Swedish environmental scientist best known for developing the planetary boundaries framework and leading global research on sustainability and climate resilience.
  • 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_69bd444426bc819099ccd23f141e22aa completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd784ca5ac81909f1ec7544f5bbd26 completed March 20, 2026, 4:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bec4cd5e188190b1404cefc887e0b3 completed March 21, 2026, 4:18 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bec571d5948190b659a7b5038f8bdd completed March 21, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bec973e71c8190a9c043389d627156 completed March 21, 2026, 4:38 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:43 p.m.