Triple

T11295441
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Temple Hornaday E267438 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation
"Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation" is an early 20th-century conservation book that documents the rapid decline of North American wildlife and advocates for stronger legal protections and public action to prevent species extinction.
E917729 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: Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation | Statement: [William Temple Hornaday, notableWork, Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation
Context triple: [William Temple Hornaday, notableWork, Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation]
  • A. The Conservationist
    The Conservationist is a 1974 novel by South African writer Nadine Gordimer that explores race, land ownership, and apartheid-era power dynamics through the story of a wealthy white industrialist who buys a farm as a status symbol.
  • B. The Fight for Conservation
    The Fight for Conservation is a seminal early 20th-century book advocating scientific forest management and the sustainable use of natural resources in the United States.
  • C. The Geographical Distribution of Animals
    The Geographical Distribution of Animals is a foundational 19th-century biogeography work by Alfred Russel Wallace that systematically analyzes how and why animal species are distributed across different regions of the world.
  • D. SAFE: Saving Animals From Extinction
    SAFE: Saving Animals From Extinction is a conservation initiative that coordinates zoos, aquariums, and partners to protect and recover threatened and endangered species worldwide.
  • E. Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature
    Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature is an 1863 scientific work by Thomas Henry Huxley that presents early, influential arguments for human evolution and humanity’s close relationship to other primates.
  • 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: Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation
Triple: [William Temple Hornaday, notableWork, Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation]
Generated description
"Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation" is an early 20th-century conservation book that documents the rapid decline of North American wildlife and advocates for stronger legal protections and public action to prevent species extinction.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation
Target entity description: "Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation" is an early 20th-century conservation book that documents the rapid decline of North American wildlife and advocates for stronger legal protections and public action to prevent species extinction.
  • A. The Conservationist
    The Conservationist is a 1974 novel by South African writer Nadine Gordimer that explores race, land ownership, and apartheid-era power dynamics through the story of a wealthy white industrialist who buys a farm as a status symbol.
  • B. The Fight for Conservation
    The Fight for Conservation is a seminal early 20th-century book advocating scientific forest management and the sustainable use of natural resources in the United States.
  • C. The Geographical Distribution of Animals
    The Geographical Distribution of Animals is a foundational 19th-century biogeography work by Alfred Russel Wallace that systematically analyzes how and why animal species are distributed across different regions of the world.
  • D. SAFE: Saving Animals From Extinction
    SAFE: Saving Animals From Extinction is a conservation initiative that coordinates zoos, aquariums, and partners to protect and recover threatened and endangered species worldwide.
  • E. Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature
    Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature is an 1863 scientific work by Thomas Henry Huxley that presents early, influential arguments for human evolution and humanity’s close relationship to other primates.
  • 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.