Triple

T987388
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Zellig Harris E21308 entity
Predicate academicAdvisor P167 FINISHED
Object Edgar H. Sturtevant
Edgar H. Sturtevant was an American linguist best known for formulating the first version of the laryngeal theory in Indo-European studies and for his influential work on Hittite and historical linguistics.
E124346 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: Edgar H. Sturtevant | Statement: [Zellig Harris, academicAdvisor, Edgar H. Sturtevant]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edgar H. Sturtevant
Context triple: [Zellig Harris, academicAdvisor, Edgar H. Sturtevant]
  • A. Thomas Hunt Morgan
    Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American geneticist and Nobel laureate whose experiments with fruit flies established the chromosome theory of heredity and laid the foundations of modern genetics.
  • B. Reginald Punnett
    Reginald Punnett was a British geneticist best known for developing the Punnett square, a fundamental tool for predicting the outcome of genetic crosses.
  • C. Theodosius Dobzhansky
    Theodosius Dobzhansky was a pioneering 20th-century geneticist and evolutionary biologist whose work integrating genetics with natural selection helped lay the foundations of the modern evolutionary synthesis.
  • D. Herman J. Muller
    Herman J. Muller was an American geneticist and Nobel laureate best known for demonstrating that X-rays can induce genetic mutations and for his outspoken advocacy on the social implications of genetics and nuclear weapons.
  • E. William Bateson
    William Bateson was a pioneering British geneticist who helped introduce and promote Mendelian genetics and even coined the term "genetics" for the field.
  • 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: Edgar H. Sturtevant
Triple: [Zellig Harris, academicAdvisor, Edgar H. Sturtevant]
Generated description
Edgar H. Sturtevant was an American linguist best known for formulating the first version of the laryngeal theory in Indo-European studies and for his influential work on Hittite and historical linguistics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edgar H. Sturtevant
Target entity description: Edgar H. Sturtevant was an American linguist best known for formulating the first version of the laryngeal theory in Indo-European studies and for his influential work on Hittite and historical linguistics.
  • A. Thomas Hunt Morgan
    Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American geneticist and Nobel laureate whose experiments with fruit flies established the chromosome theory of heredity and laid the foundations of modern genetics.
  • B. Reginald Punnett
    Reginald Punnett was a British geneticist best known for developing the Punnett square, a fundamental tool for predicting the outcome of genetic crosses.
  • C. Theodosius Dobzhansky
    Theodosius Dobzhansky was a pioneering 20th-century geneticist and evolutionary biologist whose work integrating genetics with natural selection helped lay the foundations of the modern evolutionary synthesis.
  • D. Herman J. Muller
    Herman J. Muller was an American geneticist and Nobel laureate best known for demonstrating that X-rays can induce genetic mutations and for his outspoken advocacy on the social implications of genetics and nuclear weapons.
  • E. William Bateson
    William Bateson was a pioneering British geneticist who helped introduce and promote Mendelian genetics and even coined the term "genetics" for the field.
  • 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_69a493c383dc8190a03257f22d4b4183 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b4a7754c8190a10ba0587bd8323d completed March 1, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac4289acc88190886ac8971297b1f8 completed March 7, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac4365965881909ff2cdf8eda07f91 completed March 7, 2026, 3:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac43d1cd1c8190852f8811703ebd5f completed March 7, 2026, 3:27 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:41 p.m.