Triple

T5684307
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Selous Game Reserve E125273 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Frederick Selous
Frederick Selous was a famed British explorer, big-game hunter, and conservationist in southern Africa during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
E540648 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: Frederick Selous | Statement: [Selous Game Reserve, namedAfter, Frederick Selous]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederick Selous
Context triple: [Selous Game Reserve, namedAfter, Frederick Selous]
  • A. Samuel Baker
    Samuel Baker was an 18th-century British bookseller and auctioneer best known for establishing the auction house that became Sotheby’s.
  • B. William John Burchell
    William John Burchell was a 19th-century English explorer, naturalist, and illustrator known for his extensive travels and scientific collections in Africa and South America.
  • C. Kurt Akeley
    Kurt Akeley is a pioneering computer graphics engineer and co-founder of Silicon Graphics (SGI), known for his influential work on high-performance 3D graphics hardware and APIs.
  • D. Cecil Rhodes
    Cecil Rhodes was a British imperialist, businessman, and politician in southern Africa whose wealth and will established the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Oxford.
  • E. Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza
    Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza was an Italian-French explorer and colonial administrator known for leading French expeditions in Central Africa and playing a key role in establishing French Congo.
  • 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: Frederick Selous
Triple: [Selous Game Reserve, namedAfter, Frederick Selous]
Generated description
Frederick Selous was a famed British explorer, big-game hunter, and conservationist in southern Africa during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederick Selous
Target entity description: Frederick Selous was a famed British explorer, big-game hunter, and conservationist in southern Africa during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. Samuel Baker
    Samuel Baker was an 18th-century British bookseller and auctioneer best known for establishing the auction house that became Sotheby’s.
  • B. William John Burchell
    William John Burchell was a 19th-century English explorer, naturalist, and illustrator known for his extensive travels and scientific collections in Africa and South America.
  • C. Kurt Akeley
    Kurt Akeley is a pioneering computer graphics engineer and co-founder of Silicon Graphics (SGI), known for his influential work on high-performance 3D graphics hardware and APIs.
  • D. Cecil Rhodes
    Cecil Rhodes was a British imperialist, businessman, and politician in southern Africa whose wealth and will established the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Oxford.
  • E. Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza
    Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza was an Italian-French explorer and colonial administrator known for leading French expeditions in Central Africa and playing a key role in establishing French Congo.
  • 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_69c0082a884c8190a79001bae658941f completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c023b8efc4819085675d0d3dfb2a54 completed March 22, 2026, 5:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c05a3d2b348190b44a067f485bca70 completed March 22, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c05bb6a334819094cff84f16f5285c completed March 22, 2026, 9:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c05c7a03948190b38e2dfcb04fd93e completed March 22, 2026, 9:17 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:44 p.m.