Triple
T11389374
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Nathaniel Lord Britton |
E269793
|
entity |
| Predicate | coAuthor |
P398
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
John Adolph Shafer
John Adolph Shafer was an American botanist known for his extensive fieldwork and plant collections, particularly in the Caribbean, and for collaborating with prominent botanists such as Nathaniel Lord Britton.
|
E925144
|
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: John Adolph Shafer | Statement: [Nathaniel Lord Britton, coAuthor, John Adolph Shafer]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Adolph Shafer Context triple: [Nathaniel Lord Britton, coAuthor, John Adolph Shafer]
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A.
George Shively
George Shively was an early 20th-century Negro league outfielder known for his speed, strong defense, and key role on several prominent Black baseball teams.
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B.
Jesse B. Oldendorf
Jesse B. Oldendorf was a U.S. Navy admiral in World War II best known for orchestrating the decisive nighttime naval gunfire that helped annihilate a Japanese battleship force at the Battle of Surigao Strait.
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C.
John Swett
John Swett was a prominent 19th-century American educator and reformer often regarded as the "father of the California public school system."
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D.
Edward Walter Eberle
Edward Walter Eberle was a United States Navy admiral who served as Chief of Naval Operations in the 1920s, overseeing the fleet during a period of modernization and post–World War I transition.
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E.
Charles Rettig
Charles Rettig is an American tax attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2022.
- 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: John Adolph Shafer Triple: [Nathaniel Lord Britton, coAuthor, John Adolph Shafer]
Generated description
John Adolph Shafer was an American botanist known for his extensive fieldwork and plant collections, particularly in the Caribbean, and for collaborating with prominent botanists such as Nathaniel Lord Britton.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Adolph Shafer Target entity description: John Adolph Shafer was an American botanist known for his extensive fieldwork and plant collections, particularly in the Caribbean, and for collaborating with prominent botanists such as Nathaniel Lord Britton.
-
A.
George Shively
George Shively was an early 20th-century Negro league outfielder known for his speed, strong defense, and key role on several prominent Black baseball teams.
-
B.
Jesse B. Oldendorf
Jesse B. Oldendorf was a U.S. Navy admiral in World War II best known for orchestrating the decisive nighttime naval gunfire that helped annihilate a Japanese battleship force at the Battle of Surigao Strait.
-
C.
John Swett
John Swett was a prominent 19th-century American educator and reformer often regarded as the "father of the California public school system."
-
D.
Edward Walter Eberle
Edward Walter Eberle was a United States Navy admiral who served as Chief of Naval Operations in the 1920s, overseeing the fleet during a period of modernization and post–World War I transition.
-
E.
Charles Rettig
Charles Rettig is an American tax attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2022.
- 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_69d6aacdbc6c8190af6dc3d5f5d22836 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d7fc389d4c81909515a5c8b0099c36 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 7:21 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69e5b813cfc48190a10d9b78953112ae |
completed | April 20, 2026, 5:22 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69e5c289b5ac81909bdaec61a66f6654 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 6:07 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69e5c43f4b4c8190aeae600364d2e4ac |
completed | April 20, 2026, 6:14 a.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:34 p.m.