Triple
T5459958
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ruins of Desert Cathay |
E122571
|
entity |
| Predicate | authorName |
P15941
|
FINISHED |
| Object | M. Aurel Stein |
E22082
|
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: M. Aurel Stein | Statement: [Ruins of Desert Cathay, authorName, M. Aurel Stein]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: M. Aurel Stein Context triple: [Ruins of Desert Cathay, authorName, M. Aurel Stein]
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A.
Aurel Stein
chosen
Aurel Stein was a Hungarian-British archaeologist and explorer renowned for his pioneering expeditions in Central Asia, during which he uncovered important Silk Road manuscripts and archaeological sites.
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B.
Alexander Cunningham
Alexander Cunningham was a 19th-century British archaeologist and army engineer renowned as the pioneering figure of Indian archaeology and the first Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India.
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C.
Sven Hedin
Sven Hedin was a Swedish geographer, topographer, and explorer renowned for his expeditions in Central Asia and his detailed mapping of previously uncharted regions.
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D.
Richard William Howard Vyse
Richard William Howard Vyse was a 19th-century British army officer and Egyptologist best known for his controversial excavations and investigations of the Giza pyramids.
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E.
Brian Houghton Hodgson
Brian Houghton Hodgson was a 19th-century British naturalist and ethnologist known for his pioneering studies of the wildlife, languages, and cultures of Nepal and the Himalayas.
- 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_69bd46424248819085282ddf50a565f3 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd9200a3988190a06f253f99e68224 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 6:29 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69bf7fda8a5c81908832c2d59886d824 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 5:36 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:08 p.m.