Triple

T748184
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Henry Huxley E15388 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature
Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature is an 1863 scientific work by Thomas Henry Huxley that presents early, influential arguments for human evolution and humanity’s close relationship to other primates.
E88943 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: Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature | Statement: [Thomas Henry Huxley, notableWork, Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature
Context triple: [Thomas Henry Huxley, notableWork, Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature]
  • A. The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man
    The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man is an 1863 scientific work by Charles Lyell that marshals geological and fossil evidence to argue for the great age of humanity and to support evolutionary ideas.
  • B. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
    The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex is Charles Darwin’s 1871 book that applies evolutionary theory to human origins and develops his influential theory of sexual selection.
  • C. The Mind of Primitive Man
    The Mind of Primitive Man is a foundational anthropological work by Franz Boas that challenged scientific racism and argued for the cultural and historical basis of human differences.
  • D. Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life
    Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life is an influential late-18th-century medical and biological treatise by Erasmus Darwin that proposed early ideas about evolution, physiology, and the organization of living beings.
  • E. On the Origin of Species
    On the Origin of Species is Charles Darwin’s groundbreaking 1859 scientific work that introduced the theory of evolution by natural selection and transformed modern biology.
  • 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: Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature
Triple: [Thomas Henry Huxley, notableWork, Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature]
Generated description
Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature is an 1863 scientific work by Thomas Henry Huxley that presents early, influential arguments for human evolution and humanity’s close relationship to other primates.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature
Target entity description: Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature is an 1863 scientific work by Thomas Henry Huxley that presents early, influential arguments for human evolution and humanity’s close relationship to other primates.
  • A. The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man
    The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man is an 1863 scientific work by Charles Lyell that marshals geological and fossil evidence to argue for the great age of humanity and to support evolutionary ideas.
  • B. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
    The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex is Charles Darwin’s 1871 book that applies evolutionary theory to human origins and develops his influential theory of sexual selection.
  • C. The Mind of Primitive Man
    The Mind of Primitive Man is a foundational anthropological work by Franz Boas that challenged scientific racism and argued for the cultural and historical basis of human differences.
  • D. Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life
    Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life is an influential late-18th-century medical and biological treatise by Erasmus Darwin that proposed early ideas about evolution, physiology, and the organization of living beings.
  • E. On the Origin of Species
    On the Origin of Species is Charles Darwin’s groundbreaking 1859 scientific work that introduced the theory of evolution by natural selection and transformed modern biology.
  • 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_69a49358aa308190adbc9b5a0a2adcf9 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a62f31888190b80cb0a7220f8d80 completed March 1, 2026, 8:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a654e664e4819081badaf0ba0d86e5 completed March 3, 2026, 3:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a655e0a2608190801fb67856bc2ac4 completed March 3, 2026, 3:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a65704a964819097ad5074e83303b4 completed March 3, 2026, 3:35 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.