Triple

T13075063
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Joseph LeConte E329550 entity
Predicate relative P37 FINISHED
Object John Eatton Le Conte
John Eatton Le Conte was a 19th-century American naturalist and entomologist known for his studies of insects and contributions to early American scientific exploration.
E1037035 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: John Eatton Le Conte | Statement: [Joseph LeConte, relative, John Eatton Le Conte]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Eatton Le Conte
Context triple: [Joseph LeConte, relative, John Eatton Le Conte]
  • A. George Montague Wheeler
    George Montague Wheeler was a 19th-century American surveyor and army officer best known for leading the Wheeler Survey, a major U.S. government mapping and exploration project of the American West.
  • B. Oliver Bascom
    Oliver Bascom was a 19th-century American politician who served as a New York State Canal Commissioner, helping oversee the administration and development of the state's canal system.
  • C. George M. Dawson
    George M. Dawson was a Canadian geologist and surveyor whose exploratory work in the Yukon and western Canada led to several places, including Dawson City, being named in his honor.
  • D. Edward Payson Ripley
    Edward Payson Ripley was an American railroad executive best known for serving as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway during its major period of expansion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Joseph LeConte
    Joseph LeConte was a 19th-century American geologist and naturalist known for his influential work in geology and his role as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
  • 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: John Eatton Le Conte
Triple: [Joseph LeConte, relative, John Eatton Le Conte]
Generated description
John Eatton Le Conte was a 19th-century American naturalist and entomologist known for his studies of insects and contributions to early American scientific exploration.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Eatton Le Conte
Target entity description: John Eatton Le Conte was a 19th-century American naturalist and entomologist known for his studies of insects and contributions to early American scientific exploration.
  • A. George Montague Wheeler
    George Montague Wheeler was a 19th-century American surveyor and army officer best known for leading the Wheeler Survey, a major U.S. government mapping and exploration project of the American West.
  • B. Oliver Bascom
    Oliver Bascom was a 19th-century American politician who served as a New York State Canal Commissioner, helping oversee the administration and development of the state's canal system.
  • C. George M. Dawson
    George M. Dawson was a Canadian geologist and surveyor whose exploratory work in the Yukon and western Canada led to several places, including Dawson City, being named in his honor.
  • D. Edward Payson Ripley
    Edward Payson Ripley was an American railroad executive best known for serving as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway during its major period of expansion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Joseph LeConte
    Joseph LeConte was a 19th-century American geologist and naturalist known for his influential work in geology and his role as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
  • 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_69d80771749c81909a6d9197b9504872 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98117209081908272021013df2222 completed April 10, 2026, 11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7265eba0481908417d2bb905874e5 completed May 3, 2026, 10:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f72a52e9dc8190a76c4c51d0e1cd07 completed May 3, 2026, 10:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f72ab0cb0081908090c6ebab183788 completed May 3, 2026, 11 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9 p.m.