Triple

T8519825
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Castorimorpha E201666 entity
Predicate firstDescribedBy P7386 FINISHED
Object William Diller Matthew
William Diller Matthew was an influential early 20th-century American paleontologist known for his work on mammalian evolution and fossil classification.
 E748085 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: William Diller Matthew | Statement: [Castorimorpha, firstDescribedBy, William Diller Matthew]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Diller Matthew
Context triple: [Castorimorpha, firstDescribedBy, William Diller Matthew]
  • A. G. Allan Hancock
    G. Allan Hancock was an American oil magnate, philanthropist, and real estate developer known for his influential role in shaping parts of Los Angeles, including the creation of Hancock Park.
  • B. George E. Merrick
    George E. Merrick was an American real estate developer and city planner best known for creating the planned community of Coral Gables, Florida.
  • C. John Galen Howard
    John Galen Howard was an influential American architect best known for shaping the early 20th-century architectural landscape of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
  • D. Albert Guilbert
    Albert Guilbert was an architect known for designing the Municipal Theatre of Rio de Janeiro, one of Brazil’s most iconic and historically significant opera houses.
  • E. William Whiting Boardman
    William Whiting Boardman was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician from Connecticut who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and held various state and local offices.
  • 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: William Diller Matthew
Triple: [Castorimorpha, firstDescribedBy, William Diller Matthew]
Generated description
William Diller Matthew was an influential early 20th-century American paleontologist known for his work on mammalian evolution and fossil classification.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Diller Matthew
Target entity description: William Diller Matthew was an influential early 20th-century American paleontologist known for his work on mammalian evolution and fossil classification.
  • A. G. Allan Hancock
    G. Allan Hancock was an American oil magnate, philanthropist, and real estate developer known for his influential role in shaping parts of Los Angeles, including the creation of Hancock Park.
  • B. George E. Merrick
    George E. Merrick was an American real estate developer and city planner best known for creating the planned community of Coral Gables, Florida.
  • C. John Galen Howard
    John Galen Howard was an influential American architect best known for shaping the early 20th-century architectural landscape of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
  • D. Albert Guilbert
    Albert Guilbert was an architect known for designing the Municipal Theatre of Rio de Janeiro, one of Brazil’s most iconic and historically significant opera houses.
  • E. William Whiting Boardman
    William Whiting Boardman was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician from Connecticut who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and held various state and local offices.
  • 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_69ca8321bb44819081b74df0b710276d completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe628f8c48190a35201f9fde605cc completed March 31, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cebb6855ec8190a85e5afeb656ee7d completed April 2, 2026, 6:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cebc9d4ca88190942c333806181b55 completed April 2, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cec0a9c39c8190a7bcecc6927b98f0 completed April 2, 2026, 7:16 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:16 p.m.