Triple

T9104048
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gray E218431 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Asa Gray
Asa Gray was a pioneering 19th-century American botanist whose influential works helped establish botany as a rigorous scientific discipline in the United States.
E777111 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: Asa Gray | Statement: [Gray, hasNotableBearer, Asa Gray]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Asa Gray
Context triple: [Gray, hasNotableBearer, Asa Gray]
  • A. Joseph Dalton Hooker
    Joseph Dalton Hooker was a prominent 19th-century British botanist and explorer who served as director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and was a close collaborator of Charles Darwin.
  • B. Frederic Clements
    Frederic Clements was an American plant ecologist best known for developing the influential theory of ecological succession, viewing plant communities as integrated “superorganisms” that progress through predictable stages.
  • C. Louis Agassiz
    Louis Agassiz was a 19th-century Swiss-American naturalist and geologist known for his pioneering work on glaciation and influential but controversial views on biology and race.
  • D. James Dwight Dana
    James Dwight Dana was a prominent 19th-century American geologist, mineralogist, and zoologist known for his influential works on volcanic activity, mountain-building, and systematic mineral classification.
  • E. Augustus Brandegee
    Augustus Brandegee was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician from Connecticut who served in the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • 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: Asa Gray
Triple: [Gray, hasNotableBearer, Asa Gray]
Generated description
Asa Gray was a pioneering 19th-century American botanist whose influential works helped establish botany as a rigorous scientific discipline in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Asa Gray
Target entity description: Asa Gray was a pioneering 19th-century American botanist whose influential works helped establish botany as a rigorous scientific discipline in the United States.
  • A. Joseph Dalton Hooker
    Joseph Dalton Hooker was a prominent 19th-century British botanist and explorer who served as director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and was a close collaborator of Charles Darwin.
  • B. Frederic Clements
    Frederic Clements was an American plant ecologist best known for developing the influential theory of ecological succession, viewing plant communities as integrated “superorganisms” that progress through predictable stages.
  • C. Louis Agassiz
    Louis Agassiz was a 19th-century Swiss-American naturalist and geologist known for his pioneering work on glaciation and influential but controversial views on biology and race.
  • D. James Dwight Dana
    James Dwight Dana was a prominent 19th-century American geologist, mineralogist, and zoologist known for his influential works on volcanic activity, mountain-building, and systematic mineral classification.
  • E. Augustus Brandegee
    Augustus Brandegee was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician from Connecticut who served in the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • 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_69ca83db7448819090d0a5de842ef2ac completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cca56f1f10819091abadf7cd06c3a6 completed April 1, 2026, 4:56 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d0183677cc8190b3140278f4c6de9c completed April 3, 2026, 7:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d0196766248190aebda80cbd7d1eef completed April 3, 2026, 7:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d019d76d2481909118b163ce5713f2 completed April 3, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:15 p.m.