Triple

T10156969
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wilfred Thesiger E233798 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object crossing of the Rub' al Khali
The crossing of the Rub' al Khali refers to Wilfred Thesiger’s legendary mid-20th-century explorations across the vast Empty Quarter desert of the Arabian Peninsula, documented in his classic travel book "Arabian Sands."
E845048 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: crossing of the Rub' al Khali | Statement: [Wilfred Thesiger, knownFor, crossing of the Rub' al Khali]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: crossing of the Rub' al Khali
Context triple: [Wilfred Thesiger, knownFor, crossing of the Rub' al Khali]
  • A. The Desert
    "The Desert" is a luminous 19th-century landscape painting by American artist Sanford Robinson Gifford, exemplifying the Hudson River School’s atmospheric treatment of light and expansive natural vistas.
  • B. Scetes desert
    The Scetes desert is an early Christian monastic center in Egypt’s Western Desert, renowned as one of the birthplaces of Christian monasticism and home to several ancient monasteries.
  • C. Marathon des Sables
    The Marathon des Sables is an ultramarathon held in the Sahara Desert, renowned as one of the toughest foot races on Earth due to its multi-day, self-supported format in extreme heat and terrain.
  • D. Wilderness of Beersheba
    The Wilderness of Beersheba is a desert region in the southern part of ancient Israel, associated in the Bible with Hagar and Ishmael’s wandering and divine encounter.
  • E. Moreh–Tamu crossing
    The Moreh–Tamu crossing is a key land border checkpoint between India and Myanmar that serves as a major hub for bilateral trade and regional connectivity in Southeast Asia.
  • 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: crossing of the Rub' al Khali
Triple: [Wilfred Thesiger, knownFor, crossing of the Rub' al Khali]
Generated description
The crossing of the Rub' al Khali refers to Wilfred Thesiger’s legendary mid-20th-century explorations across the vast Empty Quarter desert of the Arabian Peninsula, documented in his classic travel book "Arabian Sands."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: crossing of the Rub' al Khali
Target entity description: The crossing of the Rub' al Khali refers to Wilfred Thesiger’s legendary mid-20th-century explorations across the vast Empty Quarter desert of the Arabian Peninsula, documented in his classic travel book "Arabian Sands."
  • A. The Desert
    "The Desert" is a luminous 19th-century landscape painting by American artist Sanford Robinson Gifford, exemplifying the Hudson River School’s atmospheric treatment of light and expansive natural vistas.
  • B. Scetes desert
    The Scetes desert is an early Christian monastic center in Egypt’s Western Desert, renowned as one of the birthplaces of Christian monasticism and home to several ancient monasteries.
  • C. Marathon des Sables
    The Marathon des Sables is an ultramarathon held in the Sahara Desert, renowned as one of the toughest foot races on Earth due to its multi-day, self-supported format in extreme heat and terrain.
  • D. Wilderness of Beersheba
    The Wilderness of Beersheba is a desert region in the southern part of ancient Israel, associated in the Bible with Hagar and Ishmael’s wandering and divine encounter.
  • E. Moreh–Tamu crossing
    The Moreh–Tamu crossing is a key land border checkpoint between India and Myanmar that serves as a major hub for bilateral trade and regional connectivity in Southeast Asia.
  • 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_69ca848e80748190b91d1e04d35512c7 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdec3c47dc81909679903e6024eb49 completed April 2, 2026, 4:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d300acae608190891d8f55c3d5102b completed April 6, 2026, 12:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d302537a548190b211727dd124cba6 completed April 6, 2026, 12:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d3033245448190bcc802b7dbd274fc completed April 6, 2026, 12:49 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:09 p.m.