Triple

T11295429
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Temple Hornaday E267438 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Hornaday
Hornaday is a surname most notably associated with William Temple Hornaday, an American zoologist and pioneering conservationist known for his efforts to save the American bison from extinction.
E917727 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: Hornaday | Statement: [William Temple Hornaday, familyName, Hornaday]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hornaday
Context triple: [William Temple Hornaday, familyName, Hornaday]
  • A. Gentle Ben
    Gentle Ben is a 1960s American family television series centered on the friendship between a young boy and a tame black bear in the Florida Everglades.
  • B. Mule Suttles
    Mule Suttles was a legendary power-hitting first baseman and outfielder in Negro league baseball, renowned for his prodigious home runs and status as one of the era’s greatest sluggers.
  • C. The Hucklebuck
    The Hucklebuck is a popular mid-20th-century rhythm and blues dance tune that became a standard in the jump blues and early rock and roll repertoire.
  • D. Bull Montana
    Bull Montana was an Italian-born American character actor and former professional wrestler known for his villainous and comedic roles in silent and early sound films.
  • E. Bucky the Bison
    Bucky the Bison is the costumed bison mascot representing Bucknell University's athletic teams, especially its football program.
  • 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: Hornaday
Triple: [William Temple Hornaday, familyName, Hornaday]
Generated description
Hornaday is a surname most notably associated with William Temple Hornaday, an American zoologist and pioneering conservationist known for his efforts to save the American bison from extinction.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hornaday
Target entity description: Hornaday is a surname most notably associated with William Temple Hornaday, an American zoologist and pioneering conservationist known for his efforts to save the American bison from extinction.
  • A. Gentle Ben
    Gentle Ben is a 1960s American family television series centered on the friendship between a young boy and a tame black bear in the Florida Everglades.
  • B. Mule Suttles
    Mule Suttles was a legendary power-hitting first baseman and outfielder in Negro league baseball, renowned for his prodigious home runs and status as one of the era’s greatest sluggers.
  • C. The Hucklebuck
    The Hucklebuck is a popular mid-20th-century rhythm and blues dance tune that became a standard in the jump blues and early rock and roll repertoire.
  • D. Bull Montana
    Bull Montana was an Italian-born American character actor and former professional wrestler known for his villainous and comedic roles in silent and early sound films.
  • E. Bucky the Bison
    Bucky the Bison is the costumed bison mascot representing Bucknell University's athletic teams, especially its football program.
  • 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_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.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e510f9edb4819097e9fa1ce85504ed completed April 19, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e516ac8dec81909c9c1eece372189e completed April 19, 2026, 5:53 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:32 p.m.