Triple
T792379
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Melville J. Herskovits |
E16942
|
entity |
| Predicate | birthName |
P65
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Melville Jean Herskovits |
E16942
|
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: Melville Jean Herskovits | Statement: [Melville J. Herskovits, birthName, Melville Jean Herskovits]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Melville Jean Herskovits Context triple: [Melville J. Herskovits, birthName, Melville Jean Herskovits]
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A.
Melville J. Herskovits
chosen
Melville J. Herskovits was an American anthropologist known for pioneering African and African diaspora studies and for challenging racial and cultural biases in social science.
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B.
Robert H. Lowie
Robert H. Lowie was a prominent early 20th-century American anthropologist known for his influential studies of Native American cultures and his contributions to cultural anthropology theory.
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C.
Franz Boas
Franz Boas was a pioneering German-American anthropologist often regarded as the "father of American anthropology" for his foundational work in cultural relativism and field-based ethnographic research.
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D.
Ashley Montagu
Ashley Montagu was a British-American anthropologist and humanist known for his influential writings on race, gender, and the biological basis of human behavior.
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E.
Paul Radin
Paul Radin was an American anthropologist and folklorist known for his pioneering work on Native American cultures, languages, and religions, particularly among the Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) people.
- 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_69a4936cb7448190914f5fe4b8d81607 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4a798c7608190b9c79c52a1fe0859 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:54 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac16f56bc0819094085d61f1f29f70 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 12:15 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.