Triple

T6181628
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Glaucus E137953 entity
Predicate sourceText P409 FINISHED
Object Aelian's On the Nature of Animals
Aelian's "On the Nature of Animals" is an ancient Greek miscellany that compiles curious anecdotes, moralizing stories, and observations about animal behavior drawn from earlier writers and folklore.
E573902 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: Aelian's On the Nature of Animals | Statement: [Glaucus, sourceText, Aelian's On the Nature of Animals]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aelian's On the Nature of Animals
Context triple: [Glaucus, sourceText, Aelian's On the Nature of Animals]
  • A. De animalibus
    De animalibus is a comprehensive 13th-century zoological treatise by Albert the Great that systematically compiles and expands upon Aristotelian and medieval knowledge about animals.
  • B. History of Animals
    History of Animals is an influential zoological treatise by Aristotle that systematically examines the anatomy, behavior, and classification of animals in one of the earliest scientific studies of living creatures.
  • C. Pliny the Elder’s Natural History
    Pliny the Elder’s *Natural History* is a vast first-century Roman encyclopedia that compiles contemporary knowledge on subjects ranging from geography and zoology to art and mineralogy.
  • D. Naturalis Historia
    Naturalis Historia is an encyclopedic work of ancient Rome that compiles extensive knowledge on subjects such as natural science, geography, art, and anthropology.
  • E. Book I of Parts of Animals
    Book I of *Parts of Animals* is the opening section of Aristotle’s biological treatise, where he lays out the methodological and philosophical foundations for his study of animal anatomy and functions.
  • 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: Aelian's On the Nature of Animals
Triple: [Glaucus, sourceText, Aelian's On the Nature of Animals]
Generated description
Aelian's "On the Nature of Animals" is an ancient Greek miscellany that compiles curious anecdotes, moralizing stories, and observations about animal behavior drawn from earlier writers and folklore.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aelian's On the Nature of Animals
Target entity description: Aelian's "On the Nature of Animals" is an ancient Greek miscellany that compiles curious anecdotes, moralizing stories, and observations about animal behavior drawn from earlier writers and folklore.
  • A. De animalibus
    De animalibus is a comprehensive 13th-century zoological treatise by Albert the Great that systematically compiles and expands upon Aristotelian and medieval knowledge about animals.
  • B. History of Animals
    History of Animals is an influential zoological treatise by Aristotle that systematically examines the anatomy, behavior, and classification of animals in one of the earliest scientific studies of living creatures.
  • C. Pliny the Elder’s Natural History
    Pliny the Elder’s *Natural History* is a vast first-century Roman encyclopedia that compiles contemporary knowledge on subjects ranging from geography and zoology to art and mineralogy.
  • D. Naturalis Historia
    Naturalis Historia is an encyclopedic work of ancient Rome that compiles extensive knowledge on subjects such as natural science, geography, art, and anthropology.
  • E. Book I of Parts of Animals
    Book I of *Parts of Animals* is the opening section of Aristotle’s biological treatise, where he lays out the methodological and philosophical foundations for his study of animal anatomy and functions.
  • 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_69c008a80f748190ba3d07ffc81acb29 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c060ff9e488190b79957dfaefcca54 completed March 22, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c141c30d28819095d719adc421b02d completed March 23, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c14426f414819084bd3bafa81d6c00 completed March 23, 2026, 1:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c144b45a148190a95095d7141ddeb0 completed March 23, 2026, 1:48 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:18 p.m.