Triple

T617741
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Enlightenment science E14442 entity
Predicate hasKeyFigure P810 FINISHED
Object Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was an influential 18th-century French naturalist and writer whose multi-volume "Histoire naturelle" helped shape Enlightenment thought on biology, geology, and the history of the Earth.
E79280 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: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | Statement: [Enlightenment science, hasKeyFigure, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Context triple: [Enlightenment science, hasKeyFigure, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon]
  • A. Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
    Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis was an 18th-century French mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer best known for formulating the principle of least action and helping introduce Newtonian physics to continental Europe.
  • B. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
    Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was a pioneering French naturalist best known for proposing an early theory of evolution based on the inheritance of acquired characteristics.
  • C. Georges Cuvier
    Georges Cuvier was a pioneering French naturalist and zoologist regarded as the founder of comparative anatomy and paleontology, known for establishing extinction as a scientific fact.
  • D. Pierre-Simon Laplace
    Pierre-Simon Laplace was a French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer whose work laid the foundations of celestial mechanics, probability theory, and statistics.
  • E. Pierre André Latreille
    Pierre André Latreille was a prominent French entomologist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for his foundational work in insect classification and taxonomy.
  • 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: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Triple: [Enlightenment science, hasKeyFigure, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon]
Generated description
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was an influential 18th-century French naturalist and writer whose multi-volume "Histoire naturelle" helped shape Enlightenment thought on biology, geology, and the history of the Earth.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Target entity description: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was an influential 18th-century French naturalist and writer whose multi-volume "Histoire naturelle" helped shape Enlightenment thought on biology, geology, and the history of the Earth.
  • A. Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
    Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis was an 18th-century French mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer best known for formulating the principle of least action and helping introduce Newtonian physics to continental Europe.
  • B. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
    Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was a pioneering French naturalist best known for proposing an early theory of evolution based on the inheritance of acquired characteristics.
  • C. Georges Cuvier
    Georges Cuvier was a pioneering French naturalist and zoologist regarded as the founder of comparative anatomy and paleontology, known for establishing extinction as a scientific fact.
  • D. Pierre-Simon Laplace
    Pierre-Simon Laplace was a French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer whose work laid the foundations of celestial mechanics, probability theory, and statistics.
  • E. Pierre André Latreille
    Pierre André Latreille was a prominent French entomologist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for his foundational work in insect classification and taxonomy.
  • 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_69a4934b17c881909ace8270e8ddd202 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49e2418c881908552d2c4a5006e97 completed March 1, 2026, 8:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a56c4973c88190a7d234f480ecade5 completed March 2, 2026, 10:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a56cdb8bd08190ac98f36a134d78d5 completed March 2, 2026, 10:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a56d8713a88190ba3ad6585e64db23 completed March 2, 2026, 10:59 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:35 p.m.