Triple

T1341615
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wilderness Act of 1964 E28475 entity
Predicate principalAuthor P2002 FINISHED
Object Howard Zahniser
Howard Zahniser was an American environmental activist and writer best known for his leading role in the mid-20th-century U.S. wilderness preservation movement.
E159733 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: Howard Zahniser | Statement: [Wilderness Act of 1964, principalAuthor, Howard Zahniser]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Zahniser
Context triple: [Wilderness Act of 1964, principalAuthor, Howard Zahniser]
  • A. Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
    Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. was a prominent American landscape architect and urban planner known for advancing his father's legacy through major park, conservation, and planning projects in the early 20th century.
  • B. Edward Larrabee Barnes
    Edward Larrabee Barnes was an American modernist architect known for his refined, minimalist designs for major cultural and educational institutions.
  • C. John Charles Olmsted
    John Charles Olmsted was a prominent American landscape architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for helping shape major urban parks and park systems across the United States.
  • D. Arthur Erickson
    Arthur Erickson was a renowned Canadian architect celebrated for his modernist designs that harmonize buildings with their surrounding landscapes.
  • E. William Pereira
    William Pereira was a prominent 20th-century American architect and urban planner known for his futuristic, modernist designs across major cultural, educational, and commercial projects.
  • 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: Howard Zahniser
Triple: [Wilderness Act of 1964, principalAuthor, Howard Zahniser]
Generated description
Howard Zahniser was an American environmental activist and writer best known for his leading role in the mid-20th-century U.S. wilderness preservation movement.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Zahniser
Target entity description: Howard Zahniser was an American environmental activist and writer best known for his leading role in the mid-20th-century U.S. wilderness preservation movement.
  • A. Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
    Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. was a prominent American landscape architect and urban planner known for advancing his father's legacy through major park, conservation, and planning projects in the early 20th century.
  • B. Edward Larrabee Barnes
    Edward Larrabee Barnes was an American modernist architect known for his refined, minimalist designs for major cultural and educational institutions.
  • C. John Charles Olmsted
    John Charles Olmsted was a prominent American landscape architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for helping shape major urban parks and park systems across the United States.
  • D. Arthur Erickson
    Arthur Erickson was a renowned Canadian architect celebrated for his modernist designs that harmonize buildings with their surrounding landscapes.
  • E. William Pereira
    William Pereira was a prominent 20th-century American architect and urban planner known for his futuristic, modernist designs across major cultural, educational, and commercial projects.
  • 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_69a49854eb3481908c7d56b2e449a290 completed March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c215fc008190b01fd8150b9f3b2a completed March 1, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acde12d0dc81908a09c0221b8db3f6 completed March 8, 2026, 2:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acde7990b4819082a1bcb50215d4f1 completed March 8, 2026, 2:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acdee2d71481908a735d5685693ca8 completed March 8, 2026, 2:28 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:56 p.m.