Triple

T11295440
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Temple Hornaday E267438 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Extermination of the American Bison
The Extermination of the American Bison is an 1889 work by zoologist and conservationist William Temple Hornaday that documents the near-destruction of the American bison and helped galvanize early wildlife conservation efforts in the United States.
E917728 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: The Extermination of the American Bison | Statement: [William Temple Hornaday, notableWork, The Extermination of the American Bison]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Extermination of the American Bison
Context triple: [William Temple Hornaday, notableWork, The Extermination of the American Bison]
  • A. The Last of the Buffalo
    The Last of the Buffalo is a late 19th-century painting by Albert Bierstadt that dramatically depicts the near-extinction of American bison on the Great Plains, symbolizing the end of the American frontier.
  • B. On Bison
    "On Bison" is the traditional fight song associated with the North Dakota State University Bison athletic teams, especially its football program.
  • C. The Time of the Buffalo
    The Time of the Buffalo is a nonfiction book by Robert Paul Smith that explores the history, ecology, and cultural significance of the American buffalo.
  • D. The Vanishing Prairie
    The Vanishing Prairie is a 1954 Walt Disney nature documentary film that explores the wildlife and ecology of the American Great Plains.
  • E. The Plainsmen of the Yellowstone
    The Plainsmen of the Yellowstone is a historical work by Dale Van Every that chronicles the lives, conflicts, and frontier experiences of settlers and Native Americans in the Yellowstone region.
  • 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: The Extermination of the American Bison
Triple: [William Temple Hornaday, notableWork, The Extermination of the American Bison]
Generated description
The Extermination of the American Bison is an 1889 work by zoologist and conservationist William Temple Hornaday that documents the near-destruction of the American bison and helped galvanize early wildlife conservation efforts in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Extermination of the American Bison
Target entity description: The Extermination of the American Bison is an 1889 work by zoologist and conservationist William Temple Hornaday that documents the near-destruction of the American bison and helped galvanize early wildlife conservation efforts in the United States.
  • A. The Last of the Buffalo
    The Last of the Buffalo is a late 19th-century painting by Albert Bierstadt that dramatically depicts the near-extinction of American bison on the Great Plains, symbolizing the end of the American frontier.
  • B. On Bison
    "On Bison" is the traditional fight song associated with the North Dakota State University Bison athletic teams, especially its football program.
  • C. The Time of the Buffalo
    The Time of the Buffalo is a nonfiction book by Robert Paul Smith that explores the history, ecology, and cultural significance of the American buffalo.
  • D. The Vanishing Prairie
    The Vanishing Prairie is a 1954 Walt Disney nature documentary film that explores the wildlife and ecology of the American Great Plains.
  • E. The Plainsmen of the Yellowstone
    The Plainsmen of the Yellowstone is a historical work by Dale Van Every that chronicles the lives, conflicts, and frontier experiences of settlers and Native Americans in the Yellowstone region.
  • 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.