Triple

T1327213
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Darwin–Wallace Medal E28355 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object George C. Williams
George C. Williams was an influential evolutionary biologist best known for his work on adaptation, natural selection, and the gene-centered view of evolution.
E166159 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: George C. Williams | Statement: [Darwin–Wallace Medal, notableRecipient, George C. Williams]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George C. Williams
Context triple: [Darwin–Wallace Medal, notableRecipient, George C. Williams]
  • A. William D. Hamilton
    William D. Hamilton was a pioneering British evolutionary biologist best known for his work on kin selection and the genetic basis of social behavior.
  • B. Ernst Mayr
    Ernst Mayr was a pioneering 20th-century evolutionary biologist and systematist whose work on species concepts and population thinking helped shape modern evolutionary theory.
  • C. John Maynard Smith
    John Maynard Smith was a British evolutionary biologist and geneticist renowned for applying game theory to evolution and for his influential work on the mathematical foundations of natural selection.
  • D. Theodosius Dobzhansky
    Theodosius Dobzhansky was a pioneering 20th-century geneticist and evolutionary biologist whose work integrating genetics with natural selection helped lay the foundations of the modern evolutionary synthesis.
  • E. George Gaylord Simpson
    George Gaylord Simpson was a prominent American paleontologist whose work on fossil mammals and evolutionary theory helped shape the modern evolutionary synthesis.
  • 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: George C. Williams
Triple: [Darwin–Wallace Medal, notableRecipient, George C. Williams]
Generated description
George C. Williams was an influential evolutionary biologist best known for his work on adaptation, natural selection, and the gene-centered view of evolution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George C. Williams
Target entity description: George C. Williams was an influential evolutionary biologist best known for his work on adaptation, natural selection, and the gene-centered view of evolution.
  • A. William D. Hamilton
    William D. Hamilton was a pioneering British evolutionary biologist best known for his work on kin selection and the genetic basis of social behavior.
  • B. Ernst Mayr
    Ernst Mayr was a pioneering 20th-century evolutionary biologist and systematist whose work on species concepts and population thinking helped shape modern evolutionary theory.
  • C. John Maynard Smith
    John Maynard Smith was a British evolutionary biologist and geneticist renowned for applying game theory to evolution and for his influential work on the mathematical foundations of natural selection.
  • D. Theodosius Dobzhansky
    Theodosius Dobzhansky was a pioneering 20th-century geneticist and evolutionary biologist whose work integrating genetics with natural selection helped lay the foundations of the modern evolutionary synthesis.
  • E. George Gaylord Simpson
    George Gaylord Simpson was a prominent American paleontologist whose work on fossil mammals and evolutionary theory helped shape the modern evolutionary synthesis.
  • 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_69a498540a2481909e807a762280d3ba completed March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c1c0a22881909eff0fc6c91a5f41 completed March 1, 2026, 10:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad08a5b5fc81909b75f07b620447cd completed March 8, 2026, 5:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad09c5e774819085db9a3dd0fdf4ed completed March 8, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad0aa2a8008190aba7ae0d09619d82 completed March 8, 2026, 5:35 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:55 p.m.