Triple

T13409676
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chromista E320054 entity
Predicate proposedBy P32 FINISHED
Object Thomas Cavalier-Smith
Thomas Cavalier-Smith was a British evolutionary biologist and taxonomist known for his influential and often controversial revisions of the tree of life, including the proposal of several high-level groups of organisms.
E1039898 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: Thomas Cavalier-Smith | Statement: [Chromista, proposedBy, Thomas Cavalier-Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Cavalier-Smith
Context triple: [Chromista, proposedBy, Thomas Cavalier-Smith]
  • A. Richard H. Truly
    Richard H. Truly is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy rear admiral who later served as the eighth Administrator of NASA.
  • B. R. H. Whittaker
    R. H. Whittaker was an American ecologist best known for proposing the five-kingdom classification system of life, which significantly reshaped modern biological taxonomy.
  • C. Peter H. Raven
    Peter H. Raven is an influential American botanist and environmentalist renowned for his work in plant systematics, biodiversity conservation, and leadership of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • D. Geoffrey Simpson
    Geoffrey Simpson is an Australian cinematographer known for his work on feature films including the 1994 adaptation of "Little Women."
  • E. Richard Huelsenbeck
    Richard Huelsenbeck was a German poet, writer, and psychoanalyst who was a leading founding member and theorist of the Dada movement in Zurich and Berlin.
  • 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: Thomas Cavalier-Smith
Triple: [Chromista, proposedBy, Thomas Cavalier-Smith]
Generated description
Thomas Cavalier-Smith was a British evolutionary biologist and taxonomist known for his influential and often controversial revisions of the tree of life, including the proposal of several high-level groups of organisms.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Cavalier-Smith
Target entity description: Thomas Cavalier-Smith was a British evolutionary biologist and taxonomist known for his influential and often controversial revisions of the tree of life, including the proposal of several high-level groups of organisms.
  • A. Richard H. Truly
    Richard H. Truly is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy rear admiral who later served as the eighth Administrator of NASA.
  • B. R. H. Whittaker
    R. H. Whittaker was an American ecologist best known for proposing the five-kingdom classification system of life, which significantly reshaped modern biological taxonomy.
  • C. Peter H. Raven
    Peter H. Raven is an influential American botanist and environmentalist renowned for his work in plant systematics, biodiversity conservation, and leadership of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • D. Geoffrey Simpson
    Geoffrey Simpson is an Australian cinematographer known for his work on feature films including the 1994 adaptation of "Little Women."
  • E. Richard Huelsenbeck
    Richard Huelsenbeck was a German poet, writer, and psychoanalyst who was a leading founding member and theorist of the Dada movement in Zurich and Berlin.
  • 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_69d806b943cc8190b6af624d385d7e12 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbae4d2c5481908facfaaa1501e344 completed April 12, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7307ccff08190aa4037aa5a48f7d0 completed May 3, 2026, 11:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7313c6bcc8190a848cf8945a0ae2a completed May 3, 2026, 11:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f736f2f6a081908d532dba6f34ed97 completed May 3, 2026, 11:52 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:35 p.m.