Triple

T13244464
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Charles Otis Whitman E315362 entity
Predicate notableStudent P4838 FINISHED
Object Frank R. Lillie
Frank R. Lillie was an American zoologist and embryologist known for his pioneering research on sex determination and his leadership at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole.
E1028277 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: Frank R. Lillie | Statement: [Charles Otis Whitman, notableStudent, Frank R. Lillie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank R. Lillie
Context triple: [Charles Otis Whitman, notableStudent, Frank R. Lillie]
  • A. Ross Granville Harrison (biologist)
    Ross Granville Harrison was an American biologist and embryologist renowned for pioneering tissue culture techniques and advancing experimental embryology in the early 20th century.
  • B. Thomas Hunt Morgan
    Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American geneticist and Nobel laureate whose experiments with fruit flies established the chromosome theory of heredity and laid the foundations of modern genetics.
  • C. L. F. Henderson
    L. F. Henderson was an early mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Oregon volcano Broken Top.
  • D. Armand Carrel
    Armand Carrel was a prominent 19th-century French journalist and political writer known for his republican views and influential role in shaping liberal opinion during the July Monarchy.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Frank R. Lillie
Triple: [Charles Otis Whitman, notableStudent, Frank R. Lillie]
Generated description
Frank R. Lillie was an American zoologist and embryologist known for his pioneering research on sex determination and his leadership at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank R. Lillie
Target entity description: Frank R. Lillie was an American zoologist and embryologist known for his pioneering research on sex determination and his leadership at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole.
  • A. Ross Granville Harrison (biologist)
    Ross Granville Harrison was an American biologist and embryologist renowned for pioneering tissue culture techniques and advancing experimental embryology in the early 20th century.
  • B. Thomas Hunt Morgan
    Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American geneticist and Nobel laureate whose experiments with fruit flies established the chromosome theory of heredity and laid the foundations of modern genetics.
  • C. L. F. Henderson
    L. F. Henderson was an early mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Oregon volcano Broken Top.
  • D. Armand Carrel
    Armand Carrel was a prominent 19th-century French journalist and political writer known for his republican views and influential role in shaping liberal opinion during the July Monarchy.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69d806b1072881909e46bd212259c5f0 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98d5b06148190a44e698bbe5cd529 completed April 10, 2026, 11:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6ff3600388190a7f61370f54d5e63 completed May 3, 2026, 7:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6ffeec1e8819090e1917fc6449ede completed May 3, 2026, 7:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7017d8d308190bb54958764026325 completed May 3, 2026, 8:04 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:23 p.m.