Triple

T1119800
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Robert May E11183 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Robert McCredie May
Robert McCredie May was a prominent Australian scientist and theoretical ecologist renowned for his influential work on population dynamics, chaos theory, and the mathematical modeling of ecosystems.
E132275 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: Robert McCredie May | Statement: [Robert May, fullName, Robert McCredie May]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert McCredie May
Context triple: [Robert May, fullName, Robert McCredie May]
  • A. Robert Paul Smith
    Robert Paul Smith was an American author and playwright best known for his humorous novels and plays, including the work that inspired the romantic comedy "The Tender Trap."
  • B. Phil Woolpert
    Phil Woolpert was a prominent American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of San Francisco to multiple national championships in the 1950s.
  • C. Hugh Williamson
    Hugh Williamson was an American Founding Father, physician, and statesman who represented North Carolina at the Constitutional Convention and signed the U.S. Constitution.
  • D. Garth Stevenson
    Garth Stevenson is a Canadian-born double bassist and composer known for his atmospheric, nature-inspired film scores and solo work.
  • E. Douglas Clifton Brown
    Douglas Clifton Brown was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during the Second World War and the early postwar period.
  • 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: Robert McCredie May
Triple: [Robert May, fullName, Robert McCredie May]
Generated description
Robert McCredie May was a prominent Australian scientist and theoretical ecologist renowned for his influential work on population dynamics, chaos theory, and the mathematical modeling of ecosystems.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert McCredie May
Target entity description: Robert McCredie May was a prominent Australian scientist and theoretical ecologist renowned for his influential work on population dynamics, chaos theory, and the mathematical modeling of ecosystems.
  • A. Robert Paul Smith
    Robert Paul Smith was an American author and playwright best known for his humorous novels and plays, including the work that inspired the romantic comedy "The Tender Trap."
  • B. Phil Woolpert
    Phil Woolpert was a prominent American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of San Francisco to multiple national championships in the 1950s.
  • C. Hugh Williamson
    Hugh Williamson was an American Founding Father, physician, and statesman who represented North Carolina at the Constitutional Convention and signed the U.S. Constitution.
  • D. Garth Stevenson
    Garth Stevenson is a Canadian-born double bassist and composer known for his atmospheric, nature-inspired film scores and solo work.
  • E. Douglas Clifton Brown
    Douglas Clifton Brown was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during the Second World War and the early postwar period.
  • 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_69a493252a648190ac48f8742474a5e8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bbbca3348190a607ce147b2ae70e completed March 1, 2026, 10:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac5eab1e6481908c175e175ae4743a completed March 7, 2026, 5:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac5f6ced108190bf635a0d8b3b22a5 completed March 7, 2026, 5:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac5feabffc819082f5d28f9628558f completed March 7, 2026, 5:27 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.