Triple

T8490669
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nikolaas Tinbergen E200959 entity
Predicate notableFor P22 FINISHED
Object Tinbergen’s four questions in ethology
Tinbergen’s four questions in ethology are a foundational framework for understanding animal behavior by analyzing its causation, development, function, and evolutionary history.
E735835 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: Tinbergen’s four questions in ethology | Statement: [Nikolaas Tinbergen, notableFor, Tinbergen’s four questions in ethology]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tinbergen’s four questions in ethology
Context triple: [Nikolaas Tinbergen, notableFor, Tinbergen’s four questions in ethology]
  • A. The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Behaviour
    The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Behaviour is a landmark 1990 BBC nature documentary series presented by David Attenborough that explores the complex behaviors and life cycles of animals in the wild.
  • B. The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour
    The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour is William D. Hamilton’s landmark 1964 paper that founded modern kin selection theory and transformed the study of social evolution in biology.
  • C. Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
    Sociobiology: The New Synthesis is a landmark 1975 book by biologist Edward O. Wilson that founded the modern field of sociobiology by applying evolutionary theory to the study of social behavior in animals and humans.
  • D. Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals
    "Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals" is Edward L. Thorndike’s landmark early work in comparative psychology that introduced experimental methods to study learning and problem-solving in animals.
  • E. Animal Behavior: An Introduction
    "Animal Behavior: An Introduction" is a widely used textbook by evolutionary biologist Mark Ridley that provides a comprehensive overview of the mechanisms and evolutionary foundations of animal behavior.
  • 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: Tinbergen’s four questions in ethology
Triple: [Nikolaas Tinbergen, notableFor, Tinbergen’s four questions in ethology]
Generated description
Tinbergen’s four questions in ethology are a foundational framework for understanding animal behavior by analyzing its causation, development, function, and evolutionary history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tinbergen’s four questions in ethology
Target entity description: Tinbergen’s four questions in ethology are a foundational framework for understanding animal behavior by analyzing its causation, development, function, and evolutionary history.
  • A. The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Behaviour
    The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Behaviour is a landmark 1990 BBC nature documentary series presented by David Attenborough that explores the complex behaviors and life cycles of animals in the wild.
  • B. The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour
    The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour is William D. Hamilton’s landmark 1964 paper that founded modern kin selection theory and transformed the study of social evolution in biology.
  • C. Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
    Sociobiology: The New Synthesis is a landmark 1975 book by biologist Edward O. Wilson that founded the modern field of sociobiology by applying evolutionary theory to the study of social behavior in animals and humans.
  • D. Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals
    "Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals" is Edward L. Thorndike’s landmark early work in comparative psychology that introduced experimental methods to study learning and problem-solving in animals.
  • E. Animal Behavior: An Introduction
    "Animal Behavior: An Introduction" is a widely used textbook by evolutionary biologist Mark Ridley that provides a comprehensive overview of the mechanisms and evolutionary foundations of animal behavior.
  • 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_69ca831d7b148190a6e32c1de43ab13b completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe55af3f48190a8cd64cdce0ebd4c completed March 31, 2026, 3:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce3a54c3888190b11b7e9909abe518 completed April 2, 2026, 9:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce3b2015748190abc70b25c36aa819 completed April 2, 2026, 9:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce3c1042e48190a0f340e771cdd00a completed April 2, 2026, 9:51 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:13 p.m.