Triple

T11874232
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Carl O. Sauer E282482 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Agricultural Origins and Dispersals
Agricultural Origins and Dispersals is a seminal work in cultural geography that examines how agriculture first developed in different world regions and spread across the globe, reshaping human societies and landscapes.
E950652 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: Agricultural Origins and Dispersals | Statement: [Carl O. Sauer, notableWork, Agricultural Origins and Dispersals]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Agricultural Origins and Dispersals
Context triple: [Carl O. Sauer, notableWork, Agricultural Origins and Dispersals]
  • A. Eastern Agricultural Complex
    The Eastern Agricultural Complex was a prehistoric North American system of plant domestication and cultivation, centered in the Eastern Woodlands and involving native seed crops such as goosefoot, sumpweed, and maygrass before the widespread adoption of maize agriculture.
  • B. Neolithic Revolution
    The Neolithic Revolution was the prehistoric transition during which human societies shifted from nomadic hunting and gathering to settled agriculture, leading to the rise of villages, population growth, and the foundations of complex civilizations.
  • C. Origine des plantes cultivées
    Origine des plantes cultivées is a seminal 19th-century botanical work that investigates the geographic origins, domestication, and early history of major cultivated plants.
  • D. Bantu expansion
    The Bantu expansion was a major series of migrations by Bantu-speaking peoples across sub-Saharan Africa that spread related languages, ironworking, and agricultural practices over much of the continent.
  • E. Late Archaic cultures of Eastern North America
    The Late Archaic cultures of Eastern North America were pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer societies marked by increasing social complexity, regional trade networks, and early experimentation with plant domestication that laid the groundwork for later Woodland traditions.
  • 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: Agricultural Origins and Dispersals
Triple: [Carl O. Sauer, notableWork, Agricultural Origins and Dispersals]
Generated description
Agricultural Origins and Dispersals is a seminal work in cultural geography that examines how agriculture first developed in different world regions and spread across the globe, reshaping human societies and landscapes.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Agricultural Origins and Dispersals
Target entity description: Agricultural Origins and Dispersals is a seminal work in cultural geography that examines how agriculture first developed in different world regions and spread across the globe, reshaping human societies and landscapes.
  • A. Eastern Agricultural Complex
    The Eastern Agricultural Complex was a prehistoric North American system of plant domestication and cultivation, centered in the Eastern Woodlands and involving native seed crops such as goosefoot, sumpweed, and maygrass before the widespread adoption of maize agriculture.
  • B. Neolithic Revolution
    The Neolithic Revolution was the prehistoric transition during which human societies shifted from nomadic hunting and gathering to settled agriculture, leading to the rise of villages, population growth, and the foundations of complex civilizations.
  • C. Origine des plantes cultivées
    Origine des plantes cultivées is a seminal 19th-century botanical work that investigates the geographic origins, domestication, and early history of major cultivated plants.
  • D. Bantu expansion
    The Bantu expansion was a major series of migrations by Bantu-speaking peoples across sub-Saharan Africa that spread related languages, ironworking, and agricultural practices over much of the continent.
  • E. Late Archaic cultures of Eastern North America
    The Late Archaic cultures of Eastern North America were pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer societies marked by increasing social complexity, regional trade networks, and early experimentation with plant domestication that laid the groundwork for later Woodland traditions.
  • 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_69d6ab2945d081908a5851c916cbcfb5 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8be1a22448190bd0722188c14d7bd completed April 10, 2026, 9:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f281cac9a48190b4b0f4c53b41110f completed April 29, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f28a9378348190866e38259cc9467e completed April 29, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f28c5f7638819098aa93aa1610ca0a completed April 29, 2026, 10:55 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:43 p.m.