Triple
T11295427
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Temple Hornaday |
E267438
|
entity |
| Predicate | name |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Temple Hornaday |
E267438
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 Temple Hornaday | Statement: [William Temple Hornaday, name, William Temple Hornaday]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Temple Hornaday Context triple: [William Temple Hornaday, name, William Temple Hornaday]
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A.
William Temple Hornaday
chosen
William Temple Hornaday was an American zoologist and conservationist known for pioneering wildlife protection efforts and helping to save the American bison from extinction.
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B.
Clinton Hart Merriam
Clinton Hart Merriam was an American zoologist and ethnographer known for his pioneering work in North American mammalogy and biogeography.
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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.
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D.
Ernest Baird
Ernest Baird is a Northern Irish unionist politician best known for his role in founding and leading the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party during the Troubles.
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E.
Kurt Akeley
Kurt Akeley is a pioneering computer graphics engineer and co-founder of Silicon Graphics (SGI), known for his influential work on high-performance 3D graphics hardware and APIs.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d6aac993a08190a6f36445ebaf9a43 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d7e9a262e08190a7c1eacbc6019496 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 6:02 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69e50a32ac308190828e1138522527fb |
completed | April 19, 2026, 5 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:32 p.m.