Triple

T10985549
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ellery Channing E259619 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Thoreau, the Poet-Naturalist (1873)
Thoreau, the Poet-Naturalist (1873) is a biographical work by Ellery Channing that portrays the life, character, and philosophy of American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.
E898178 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: Thoreau, the Poet-Naturalist (1873) | Statement: [Ellery Channing, notableWork, Thoreau, the Poet-Naturalist (1873)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thoreau, the Poet-Naturalist (1873)
Context triple: [Ellery Channing, notableWork, Thoreau, the Poet-Naturalist (1873)]
  • A. Nature (Emerson essay)
    "Nature" is Ralph Waldo Emerson’s foundational 1836 essay that articulates the core principles of Transcendentalism by exploring the spiritual and philosophical relationship between humans and the natural world.
  • B. Lectures on Ralph Waldo Emerson and transcendentalism
    "Lectures on Ralph Waldo Emerson and transcendentalism" is a series of talks by Edward Waldo Emerson that interpret and contextualize his father Ralph Waldo Emerson’s philosophy and the broader American Transcendentalist movement.
  • C. “Nature and Man in America”
    “Nature and Man in America” is a late-19th-century work of natural history and geography in which geologist Nathaniel Shaler examines the interaction between the North American environment and human society.
  • D. Emerson’s collected essays
    Emerson’s collected essays is a volume gathering Ralph Waldo Emerson’s influential philosophical and literary writings, including key transcendentalist works such as “Self-Reliance.”
  • E. Walden (Diaries, Notes and Sketches)
    Walden (Diaries, Notes and Sketches) is an influential 1969 avant-garde diary film by Jonas Mekas that weaves together personal footage, reflections, and everyday moments into a lyrical meditation on life and memory.
  • 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: Thoreau, the Poet-Naturalist (1873)
Triple: [Ellery Channing, notableWork, Thoreau, the Poet-Naturalist (1873)]
Generated description
Thoreau, the Poet-Naturalist (1873) is a biographical work by Ellery Channing that portrays the life, character, and philosophy of American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thoreau, the Poet-Naturalist (1873)
Target entity description: Thoreau, the Poet-Naturalist (1873) is a biographical work by Ellery Channing that portrays the life, character, and philosophy of American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.
  • A. Nature (Emerson essay)
    "Nature" is Ralph Waldo Emerson’s foundational 1836 essay that articulates the core principles of Transcendentalism by exploring the spiritual and philosophical relationship between humans and the natural world.
  • B. Lectures on Ralph Waldo Emerson and transcendentalism
    "Lectures on Ralph Waldo Emerson and transcendentalism" is a series of talks by Edward Waldo Emerson that interpret and contextualize his father Ralph Waldo Emerson’s philosophy and the broader American Transcendentalist movement.
  • C. “Nature and Man in America”
    “Nature and Man in America” is a late-19th-century work of natural history and geography in which geologist Nathaniel Shaler examines the interaction between the North American environment and human society.
  • D. Emerson’s collected essays
    Emerson’s collected essays is a volume gathering Ralph Waldo Emerson’s influential philosophical and literary writings, including key transcendentalist works such as “Self-Reliance.”
  • E. Walden (Diaries, Notes and Sketches)
    Walden (Diaries, Notes and Sketches) is an influential 1969 avant-garde diary film by Jonas Mekas that weaves together personal footage, reflections, and everyday moments into a lyrical meditation on life and memory.
  • 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_69d6aa895f4c8190887a15460ef622f4 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d787b2e4a88190a81504eee77e2298 completed April 9, 2026, 11:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e344d860b08190a035570191c54d7c completed April 18, 2026, 8:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e3556e8b408190a02a1fe194ae5750 completed April 18, 2026, 9:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e3591ecd548190b049ce95fe3f86d9 completed April 18, 2026, 10:12 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:24 p.m.