Triple

T9108534
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Catawba language E218536 entity
Predicate documentedBy P4310 FINISHED
Object Frank G. Speck
Frank G. Speck was an American anthropologist and ethnologist known for his extensive fieldwork and documentation of Native American cultures and languages in the eastern United States.
E778729 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: Frank G. Speck | Statement: [Catawba language, documentedBy, Frank G. Speck]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank G. Speck
Context triple: [Catawba language, documentedBy, Frank G. Speck]
  • A. Alfred V. Kidder
    Alfred V. Kidder was a pioneering American archaeologist renowned for developing stratigraphic excavation methods and advancing the study of ancient Mesoamerican and Southwestern U.S. cultures.
  • B. Conrad J. Sauer
    Conrad J. Sauer was an American pharmacist and entrepreneur best known for founding The C.F. Sauer Company, a major producer of flavoring extracts and spices.
  • C. J. Walter Fewkes
    J. Walter Fewkes was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering studies of Native American cultures, particularly the Hopi and other Pueblo peoples, and for his influential work in early ethnographic field recording.
  • D. Albert Samuel Gatschet
    Albert Samuel Gatschet was a 19th-century Swiss-American linguist and ethnologist known for his pioneering documentation of Native American languages and cultures.
  • E. Alfred L. Kroeber
    Alfred L. Kroeber was a pioneering American anthropologist known for his influential work on Native American cultures, linguistic anthropology, and the development of cultural anthropology in the United States.
  • 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: Frank G. Speck
Triple: [Catawba language, documentedBy, Frank G. Speck]
Generated description
Frank G. Speck was an American anthropologist and ethnologist known for his extensive fieldwork and documentation of Native American cultures and languages in the eastern United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank G. Speck
Target entity description: Frank G. Speck was an American anthropologist and ethnologist known for his extensive fieldwork and documentation of Native American cultures and languages in the eastern United States.
  • A. Alfred V. Kidder
    Alfred V. Kidder was a pioneering American archaeologist renowned for developing stratigraphic excavation methods and advancing the study of ancient Mesoamerican and Southwestern U.S. cultures.
  • B. Conrad J. Sauer
    Conrad J. Sauer was an American pharmacist and entrepreneur best known for founding The C.F. Sauer Company, a major producer of flavoring extracts and spices.
  • C. J. Walter Fewkes
    J. Walter Fewkes was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering studies of Native American cultures, particularly the Hopi and other Pueblo peoples, and for his influential work in early ethnographic field recording.
  • D. Albert Samuel Gatschet
    Albert Samuel Gatschet was a 19th-century Swiss-American linguist and ethnologist known for his pioneering documentation of Native American languages and cultures.
  • E. Alfred L. Kroeber
    Alfred L. Kroeber was a pioneering American anthropologist known for his influential work on Native American cultures, linguistic anthropology, and the development of cultural anthropology in the United States.
  • 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_69cca57543448190829853c31e05dd8c completed April 1, 2026, 4:56 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d03038dba48190991cb76576349bc3 completed April 3, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d031a55a88819090cea52b192e9f55 completed April 3, 2026, 9:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d03252748c8190bd362f205a6fc20a completed April 3, 2026, 9:34 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:16 p.m.