Triple

T11281993
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bartram’s Garden E267085 entity
Predicate significantPerson P643 FINISHED
Object William Bartram
William Bartram was an 18th-century American naturalist, explorer, and botanical illustrator renowned for his influential travels and writings on the flora, fauna, and Indigenous peoples of the southeastern United States.
E919726 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: William Bartram | Statement: [Bartram’s Garden, significantPerson, William Bartram]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Bartram
Context triple: [Bartram’s Garden, significantPerson, William Bartram]
  • A. John Bartram
    John Bartram was an 18th-century American botanist and explorer, often regarded as the "father of American botany" for his extensive plant collection and contributions to natural science.
  • B. Charles Waterton
    Charles Waterton was a 19th-century English naturalist and explorer renowned for his pioneering work in conservation and wildlife observation.
  • C. Caspar F. Goodrich
    Caspar F. Goodrich was a United States Navy rear admiral known for his service in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including roles in the Spanish–American War and as an influential naval strategist and writer.
  • D. John Torrey
    John Torrey was a prominent 19th-century American botanist known for his foundational work in North American plant taxonomy and for having several plant species named in his honor.
  • E. Philip Miller
    Philip Miller was an 18th-century Scottish botanist and chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden, renowned for his influential horticultural reference work "The Gardener's Dictionary."
  • 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: William Bartram
Triple: [Bartram’s Garden, significantPerson, William Bartram]
Generated description
William Bartram was an 18th-century American naturalist, explorer, and botanical illustrator renowned for his influential travels and writings on the flora, fauna, and Indigenous peoples of the southeastern United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Bartram
Target entity description: William Bartram was an 18th-century American naturalist, explorer, and botanical illustrator renowned for his influential travels and writings on the flora, fauna, and Indigenous peoples of the southeastern United States.
  • A. John Bartram
    John Bartram was an 18th-century American botanist and explorer, often regarded as the "father of American botany" for his extensive plant collection and contributions to natural science.
  • B. Charles Waterton
    Charles Waterton was a 19th-century English naturalist and explorer renowned for his pioneering work in conservation and wildlife observation.
  • C. Caspar F. Goodrich
    Caspar F. Goodrich was a United States Navy rear admiral known for his service in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including roles in the Spanish–American War and as an influential naval strategist and writer.
  • D. John Torrey
    John Torrey was a prominent 19th-century American botanist known for his foundational work in North American plant taxonomy and for having several plant species named in his honor.
  • E. Philip Miller
    Philip Miller was an 18th-century Scottish botanist and chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden, renowned for his influential horticultural reference work "The Gardener's Dictionary."
  • 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_69d6aac8c2f48190ad0596f1f89f0470 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7e96e15708190b3a1cccfbbe65882 completed April 9, 2026, 6:01 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e542c5fdb88190968831279eaeea49 completed April 19, 2026, 9:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e5474879088190990468d960b26739 completed April 19, 2026, 9:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e54eccdd3881908536ee3f9f4ef516 completed April 19, 2026, 9:53 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:31 p.m.