Triple

T1239048
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wollaston Medal E26615 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Roderick Murchison
Roderick Murchison was a prominent 19th-century Scottish geologist best known for his work on the Silurian system and for helping establish modern stratigraphy.
E145169 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: Roderick Murchison | Statement: [Wollaston Medal, notableRecipient, Roderick Murchison]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roderick Murchison
Context triple: [Wollaston Medal, notableRecipient, Roderick Murchison]
  • A. Joseph Prestwich
    Joseph Prestwich was a 19th-century British geologist renowned for his pioneering work in stratigraphy and the study of Tertiary and Quaternary deposits.
  • B. Hugh Miller
    Hugh Miller was a 19th-century Scottish geologist, writer, and self-taught fossil collector renowned for his influential works on the geology and paleontology of Scotland.
  • C. Charles Lapworth
    Charles Lapworth was a pioneering British geologist best known for his work on Ordovician stratigraphy and the use of graptolites to establish detailed rock sequences.
  • D. John Stevens Henslow
    John Stevens Henslow was a 19th-century English clergyman, botanist, and geologist best known as Charles Darwin’s mentor and a pioneering botanical educator.
  • E. Nicholas Aylward Vigors
    Nicholas Aylward Vigors was a 19th-century Irish zoologist and politician known for his influential work in ornithology and the classification of birds.
  • 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: Roderick Murchison
Triple: [Wollaston Medal, notableRecipient, Roderick Murchison]
Generated description
Roderick Murchison was a prominent 19th-century Scottish geologist best known for his work on the Silurian system and for helping establish modern stratigraphy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roderick Murchison
Target entity description: Roderick Murchison was a prominent 19th-century Scottish geologist best known for his work on the Silurian system and for helping establish modern stratigraphy.
  • A. Joseph Prestwich
    Joseph Prestwich was a 19th-century British geologist renowned for his pioneering work in stratigraphy and the study of Tertiary and Quaternary deposits.
  • B. Hugh Miller
    Hugh Miller was a 19th-century Scottish geologist, writer, and self-taught fossil collector renowned for his influential works on the geology and paleontology of Scotland.
  • C. Charles Lapworth
    Charles Lapworth was a pioneering British geologist best known for his work on Ordovician stratigraphy and the use of graptolites to establish detailed rock sequences.
  • D. John Stevens Henslow
    John Stevens Henslow was a 19th-century English clergyman, botanist, and geologist best known as Charles Darwin’s mentor and a pioneering botanical educator.
  • E. Nicholas Aylward Vigors
    Nicholas Aylward Vigors was a 19th-century Irish zoologist and politician known for his influential work in ornithology and the classification of birds.
  • 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_69a4948689d08190b3a4a3f388c02148 completed March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bf406b988190a12aa26bbcb88d6a completed March 1, 2026, 10:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac997c6acc819099b1ae6e9ef47a8e completed March 7, 2026, 9:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac99ef5e308190858cf45c0707aa74 completed March 7, 2026, 9:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac9ac980f48190a23da8b222ec7601 completed March 7, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:47 p.m.