Triple

T12272795
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Nuttall E292511 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Genera of North American Plants
The Genera of North American Plants is a foundational 19th-century botanical work that systematically describes and classifies the plant genera of North America.
E974705 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 Genera of North American Plants | Statement: [Thomas Nuttall, notableWork, The Genera of North American Plants]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Genera of North American Plants
Context triple: [Thomas Nuttall, notableWork, The Genera of North American Plants]
  • A. Manual of Botany for the Northern States
    Manual of Botany for the Northern States is an early 19th-century botanical reference work that systematically catalogues and describes the plant species of the northern United States.
  • B. Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien
    Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien is a foundational multi-volume botanical reference work that systematically classified plant families and greatly influenced modern plant taxonomy.
  • C. Manual of Botany
    Manual of Botany is a foundational botanical textbook by John Merle Coulter that systematically describes and classifies North American plant species for scientific and educational use.
  • D. Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions
    Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions is a comprehensive multi-volume botanical reference work by Nathaniel Lord Britton that systematically documents and illustrates the vascular plants of northeastern North America.
  • E. Flora of the Western United States
    Flora of the Western United States encompasses the diverse native plant life found across the region’s varied ecosystems, from coastal forests and mountain conifers to deserts and grasslands.
  • 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 Genera of North American Plants
Triple: [Thomas Nuttall, notableWork, The Genera of North American Plants]
Generated description
The Genera of North American Plants is a foundational 19th-century botanical work that systematically describes and classifies the plant genera of North America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Genera of North American Plants
Target entity description: The Genera of North American Plants is a foundational 19th-century botanical work that systematically describes and classifies the plant genera of North America.
  • A. Manual of Botany for the Northern States
    Manual of Botany for the Northern States is an early 19th-century botanical reference work that systematically catalogues and describes the plant species of the northern United States.
  • B. Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien
    Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien is a foundational multi-volume botanical reference work that systematically classified plant families and greatly influenced modern plant taxonomy.
  • C. Manual of Botany
    Manual of Botany is a foundational botanical textbook by John Merle Coulter that systematically describes and classifies North American plant species for scientific and educational use.
  • D. Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions
    Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions is a comprehensive multi-volume botanical reference work by Nathaniel Lord Britton that systematically documents and illustrates the vascular plants of northeastern North America.
  • E. Flora of the Western United States
    Flora of the Western United States encompasses the diverse native plant life found across the region’s varied ecosystems, from coastal forests and mountain conifers to deserts and grasslands.
  • 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_69d6ab6856488190b5d31178d5015f8e completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d91cee7158819093fff74db6867896 completed April 10, 2026, 3:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f61e6b50a48190b1beabd149d5830f completed May 2, 2026, 3:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f61f9386548190a749445a404db3a2 completed May 2, 2026, 4 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6207f164c8190b663a50ee3c761d6 completed May 2, 2026, 4:04 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:52 p.m.