Triple
T11358867
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Steere Herbarium |
E269031
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
William C. Steere
William C. Steere was an American botanist and bryologist renowned for his research on mosses and his leadership at the New York Botanical Garden.
|
E987407
|
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 C. Steere | Statement: [Steere Herbarium, namedAfter, William C. Steere]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William C. Steere Context triple: [Steere Herbarium, namedAfter, William C. Steere]
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A.
Edward H. R. Lyman
Edward H. R. Lyman was a philanthropist and cultural patron known for establishing the Academy of Music Theatre in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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B.
George Houghton Gilman
George Houghton Gilman was the second husband of American writer and feminist theorist Charlotte Perkins Gilman, with whom he shared a long and supportive partnership.
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C.
Theodore B. Fernald
Theodore B. Fernald is a linguist known for his descriptive and analytical work on the Maricopa language.
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D.
Theodore Herman Jewett
Theodore Herman Jewett was a 19th-century New England physician best known as the father of American regionalist author Sarah Orne Jewett.
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E.
George H. Wyman
George H. Wyman was an American draftsman-turned-architect best known for designing Los Angeles’s iconic Bradbury Building, celebrated for its light-filled atrium, ornate ironwork, and early modernist vision.
- 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 C. Steere Triple: [Steere Herbarium, namedAfter, William C. Steere]
Generated description
William C. Steere was an American botanist and bryologist renowned for his research on mosses and his leadership at the New York Botanical Garden.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William C. Steere Target entity description: William C. Steere was an American botanist and bryologist renowned for his research on mosses and his leadership at the New York Botanical Garden.
-
A.
Edward H. R. Lyman
Edward H. R. Lyman was a philanthropist and cultural patron known for establishing the Academy of Music Theatre in Northampton, Massachusetts.
-
B.
George Houghton Gilman
George Houghton Gilman was the second husband of American writer and feminist theorist Charlotte Perkins Gilman, with whom he shared a long and supportive partnership.
-
C.
Theodore B. Fernald
Theodore B. Fernald is a linguist known for his descriptive and analytical work on the Maricopa language.
-
D.
Theodore Herman Jewett
Theodore Herman Jewett was a 19th-century New England physician best known as the father of American regionalist author Sarah Orne Jewett.
-
E.
George H. Wyman
George H. Wyman was an American draftsman-turned-architect best known for designing Los Angeles’s iconic Bradbury Building, celebrated for its light-filled atrium, ornate ironwork, and early modernist vision.
- 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_69d6aacbe18081909e5fadb50082dd96 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d7ea42fe608190b9c71dd63f8780f3 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 6:04 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f64b7aff4c8190ba879e6c5632bb97 |
completed | May 2, 2026, 7:07 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69f64f6a6c888190ad02f5f492df5d38 |
completed | May 2, 2026, 7:24 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69f6504b033c8190a31f49f2e59c6810 |
completed | May 2, 2026, 7:28 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:33 p.m.