Triple
T1272517
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Clinton Hart Merriam |
E15740
|
entity |
| Predicate | name |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Clinton Hart Merriam |
E15740
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Clinton Hart Merriam | Statement: [Clinton Hart Merriam, name, Clinton Hart Merriam]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clinton Hart Merriam Context triple: [Clinton Hart Merriam, name, Clinton Hart Merriam]
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A.
Clinton Hart Merriam
chosen
Clinton Hart Merriam was an American zoologist and ethnographer known for his pioneering work in North American mammalogy and biogeography.
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B.
John Galen Howard
John Galen Howard was an influential American architect best known for shaping the early 20th-century architectural landscape of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
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C.
Henry Chandler Cowles
Henry Chandler Cowles was an American botanist and pioneering ecologist whose work on plant succession helped establish ecology as a scientific discipline.
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D.
Victor E. Shelford
Victor E. Shelford was an American ecologist and pioneer in animal ecology who helped establish ecology as a scientific discipline in the United States.
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E.
Charles D. Michener
Charles D. Michener was an American entomologist renowned for his pioneering and comprehensive research on bees and their taxonomy.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a4935a94308190bb92555b79032824 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4c06c033081909bc594157abaf5bb |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:40 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac998e56488190ac3cf51563335e30 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 9:33 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.