Triple

T9738613
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cliff Palace E236128 entity
Predicate discoveredBy P412 FINISHED
Object Richard Wetherill
Richard Wetherill was an American rancher and amateur archaeologist best known for his pioneering exploration and excavation of Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings in the U.S. Southwest.
E818681 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: Richard Wetherill | Statement: [Cliff Palace, discoveredBy, Richard Wetherill]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Wetherill
Context triple: [Cliff Palace, discoveredBy, Richard Wetherill]
  • A. John Price Wetherill
    John Price Wetherill was an American industrialist and philanthropist known for his support of scientific and technological innovation, commemorated by the John Price Wetherill Medal.
  • B. 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.
  • 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. Carl Blegen
    Carl Blegen was an American archaeologist renowned for his influential excavations at Troy and Pylos, which significantly advanced the study of Bronze Age Greece.
  • E. Clarence King
    Clarence King was a 19th-century American geologist, explorer, and the first director of the United States Geological Survey, renowned for his pioneering surveys of the American West.
  • 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: Richard Wetherill
Triple: [Cliff Palace, discoveredBy, Richard Wetherill]
Generated description
Richard Wetherill was an American rancher and amateur archaeologist best known for his pioneering exploration and excavation of Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings in the U.S. Southwest.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Wetherill
Target entity description: Richard Wetherill was an American rancher and amateur archaeologist best known for his pioneering exploration and excavation of Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings in the U.S. Southwest.
  • A. John Price Wetherill
    John Price Wetherill was an American industrialist and philanthropist known for his support of scientific and technological innovation, commemorated by the John Price Wetherill Medal.
  • B. 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.
  • 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. Carl Blegen
    Carl Blegen was an American archaeologist renowned for his influential excavations at Troy and Pylos, which significantly advanced the study of Bronze Age Greece.
  • E. Clarence King
    Clarence King was a 19th-century American geologist, explorer, and the first director of the United States Geological Survey, renowned for his pioneering surveys of the American West.
  • 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_69ca84d313e88190983ee6ffd0ef60d2 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9ef43fec8190987628f401a27436 completed April 1, 2026, 10:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1afe0dab48190832ab77265c09d70 completed April 5, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1b08ba1f48190830852f9d60e3368 completed April 5, 2026, 12:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1b124659481909e7a2ecaf01d8a50 completed April 5, 2026, 12:47 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:22 p.m.