Triple

T12447065
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wistar E297428 entity
Predicate notableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Caspar Wistar
Caspar Wistar was an American physician and anatomist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for his influential medical teaching and for Wistar Institute’s later naming in his honor.
E985154 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: Caspar Wistar | Statement: [Wistar, notableBearer, Caspar Wistar]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Caspar Wistar
Context triple: [Wistar, notableBearer, Caspar Wistar]
  • A. Isaac Jones Wistar
    Isaac Jones Wistar was an American lawyer, Civil War general, and philanthropist best known for founding the Wistar Institute, a leading biomedical research center.
  • B. Benjamin Silliman
    Benjamin Silliman was a pioneering American chemist and geologist, one of Yale College’s first science professors, and a key figure in the early development of scientific education in the United States.
  • C. Dr. Emlen Physick Jr.
    Dr. Emlen Physick Jr. was a 19th-century physician and member of a prominent Philadelphia family who became known as the original owner and resident of the now-historic Victorian Emlen Physick Estate in Cape May, New Jersey.
  • D. John Cassin
    John Cassin was a 19th-century American ornithologist known for describing numerous bird species and contributing significantly to early American bird taxonomy.
  • E. A. H. B. Whipple
    A. H. B. Whipple was an astronomer known for his role in the discovery of the trans-Neptunian object Varuna.
  • 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: Caspar Wistar
Triple: [Wistar, notableBearer, Caspar Wistar]
Generated description
Caspar Wistar was an American physician and anatomist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for his influential medical teaching and for Wistar Institute’s later naming in his honor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Caspar Wistar
Target entity description: Caspar Wistar was an American physician and anatomist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for his influential medical teaching and for Wistar Institute’s later naming in his honor.
  • A. Isaac Jones Wistar
    Isaac Jones Wistar was an American lawyer, Civil War general, and philanthropist best known for founding the Wistar Institute, a leading biomedical research center.
  • B. Benjamin Silliman
    Benjamin Silliman was a pioneering American chemist and geologist, one of Yale College’s first science professors, and a key figure in the early development of scientific education in the United States.
  • C. Dr. Emlen Physick Jr.
    Dr. Emlen Physick Jr. was a 19th-century physician and member of a prominent Philadelphia family who became known as the original owner and resident of the now-historic Victorian Emlen Physick Estate in Cape May, New Jersey.
  • D. John Cassin
    John Cassin was a 19th-century American ornithologist known for describing numerous bird species and contributing significantly to early American bird taxonomy.
  • E. A. H. B. Whipple
    A. H. B. Whipple was an astronomer known for his role in the discovery of the trans-Neptunian object Varuna.
  • 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_69d94d90f18c819083a36ff4b9be4a20 completed April 10, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f63f132d048190b58a8381bdc74cad completed May 2, 2026, 6:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6415f11d88190a9f77eb1890f76ef completed May 2, 2026, 6:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f64231606481909b8dd9d878670a6c completed May 2, 2026, 6:28 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:56 p.m.