Triple

T12703907

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	U.S. Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel	`E303529`	entity
Predicate	notableWork	`P4`	FINISHED
Object	Botany (Fortieth Parallel Survey report) Botany (Fortieth Parallel Survey report) is a 19th-century scientific volume documenting and classifying the plant life encountered during the U.S. Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel in the American West.	`E997301`	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: Botany (Fortieth Parallel Survey report) | Statement: [U.S. Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, notableWork, Botany (Fortieth Parallel Survey report)]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Botany (Fortieth Parallel Survey report)
Context triple: [U.S. Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, notableWork, Botany (Fortieth Parallel Survey report)]

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. 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.
C. Géographie botanique raisonnée
Géographie botanique raisonnée is a foundational 19th-century work on plant geography and the distribution of vegetation by Swiss botanist Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle.
D. Critica Botanica
Critica Botanica is a 1737 botanical treatise by Carl Linnaeus in which he sets out principles and rules for the scientific naming and classification of plants.
E. 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.
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: Botany (Fortieth Parallel Survey report)
Triple: [U.S. Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, notableWork, Botany (Fortieth Parallel Survey report)]

Generated description

Botany (Fortieth Parallel Survey report) is a 19th-century scientific volume documenting and classifying the plant life encountered during the U.S. Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel in the American West.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Botany (Fortieth Parallel Survey report)
Target entity description: Botany (Fortieth Parallel Survey report) is a 19th-century scientific volume documenting and classifying the plant life encountered during the U.S. Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel in the American West.

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. 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.
C. Géographie botanique raisonnée
Géographie botanique raisonnée is a foundational 19th-century work on plant geography and the distribution of vegetation by Swiss botanist Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle.
D. Critica Botanica
Critica Botanica is a 1737 botanical treatise by Carl Linnaeus in which he sets out principles and rules for the scientific naming and classification of plants.
E. 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.
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_69d7bdef90d48190b46b88270e780946`	completed	April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69d961f1adec8190a53c80e9556b3fe0`	completed	April 10, 2026, 8:47 p.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_69f671b4832c8190abc17f5f33b3552a`	completed	May 2, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_69f67286f1b8819081db3da2f5c16daf`	completed	May 2, 2026, 9:54 p.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_69f67323a724819092425cdb3a070b96`	completed	May 2, 2026, 9:56 p.m.

Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:23 p.m.