Triple
T7959640
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Soul of the White Ant |
E184828
|
entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Eugène Marais |
E5800
|
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: Eugène Marais | Statement: [The Soul of the White Ant, author, Eugène Marais]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eugène Marais Context triple: [The Soul of the White Ant, author, Eugène Marais]
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A.
Eugène Marais
chosen
Eugène Marais was a pioneering South African poet, journalist, and naturalist whose Afrikaans writings and groundbreaking studies of termites and baboons made him a key figure in Afrikaner cultural and scientific history.
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B.
Gaston de Lacaze-Duthiers
Gaston de Lacaze-Duthiers was a 19th-century French zoologist and anatomist renowned for his pioneering research in marine invertebrates and for founding important marine biology laboratories.
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C.
Fritz Müller
Fritz Müller was a Swiss mountaineer known for participating in the 1956 Swiss expedition that made the first successful ascent of Lhotse and notable ascents on Mount Everest.
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D.
Louis Pierre Vieillot
Louis Pierre Vieillot was a French ornithologist known for his pioneering work in classifying and describing numerous bird species in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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E.
Henry Blyth
Henry Blyth was a screenwriter known for his work on the film "The Early Bird."
- 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_69ca8293a2388190aace944d7ed9c0c0 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cb3b8136448190890f007fb4fb7625 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 3:12 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cbe07d31a881909e891fdd73c4467b |
completed | March 31, 2026, 2:55 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:12 p.m.