Triple

T12437019
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject MacLeay River E297169 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Alexander Macleay
Alexander Macleay was a 19th-century British-born colonial administrator and prominent entomologist who served as Colonial Secretary of New South Wales and was influential in Australian scientific and political life.
E984241 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: Alexander Macleay | Statement: [MacLeay River, namedAfter, Alexander Macleay]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Macleay
Context triple: [MacLeay River, namedAfter, Alexander Macleay]
  • A. Joseph Hooker
    Joseph Hooker was a Union Army major general during the American Civil War, best known for his leadership of the Army of the Potomac and his defeat at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
  • B. Stephen H. Long
    Stephen H. Long was a 19th-century American army explorer, engineer, and topographical surveyor known for his expeditions in the American West and Great Plains.
  • C. Matthew Meigs
    Matthew Meigs was an American educator and Presbyterian minister best known for establishing The Hill School, a prominent preparatory boarding school in Pennsylvania.
  • D. James Dwight Dana
    James Dwight Dana was a prominent 19th-century American geologist, mineralogist, and zoologist known for his influential works on volcanic activity, mountain-building, and systematic mineral classification.
  • E. Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
    Constantine Samuel Rafinesque was a 19th-century polymath naturalist and taxonomist known for his prolific and often controversial descriptions of new species in North America and beyond.
  • 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: Alexander Macleay
Triple: [MacLeay River, namedAfter, Alexander Macleay]
Generated description
Alexander Macleay was a 19th-century British-born colonial administrator and prominent entomologist who served as Colonial Secretary of New South Wales and was influential in Australian scientific and political life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Macleay
Target entity description: Alexander Macleay was a 19th-century British-born colonial administrator and prominent entomologist who served as Colonial Secretary of New South Wales and was influential in Australian scientific and political life.
  • A. Joseph Hooker
    Joseph Hooker was a Union Army major general during the American Civil War, best known for his leadership of the Army of the Potomac and his defeat at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
  • B. Stephen H. Long
    Stephen H. Long was a 19th-century American army explorer, engineer, and topographical surveyor known for his expeditions in the American West and Great Plains.
  • C. Matthew Meigs
    Matthew Meigs was an American educator and Presbyterian minister best known for establishing The Hill School, a prominent preparatory boarding school in Pennsylvania.
  • D. James Dwight Dana
    James Dwight Dana was a prominent 19th-century American geologist, mineralogist, and zoologist known for his influential works on volcanic activity, mountain-building, and systematic mineral classification.
  • E. Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
    Constantine Samuel Rafinesque was a 19th-century polymath naturalist and taxonomist known for his prolific and often controversial descriptions of new species in North America and beyond.
  • 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_69d6ada166c48190b902972cd2408fa3 completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d94d8c8fd481909b35ac504127a1b6 completed April 10, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f63f06d16481909ed2eb5195ebd7e4 completed May 2, 2026, 6:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f64010a1348190afaf7b95b8f146b5 completed May 2, 2026, 6:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f640c33d948190ad8f9885f90786d7 completed May 2, 2026, 6:21 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:55 p.m.