Triple

T1382982
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Saunders Mac Lane E29380 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Saunders
Saunders is a given name most notably borne by Saunders Mac Lane, a prominent American mathematician and co-founder of category theory.
 E157403 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: Saunders | Statement: [Saunders Mac Lane, givenName, Saunders]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Saunders
Context triple: [Saunders Mac Lane, givenName, Saunders]
  • A. Sauer
    Sauer is a German surname borne by various notable individuals in fields such as science, politics, and the arts.
  • B. Sandiacre
    Sandiacre is a village and civil parish in the Erewash district of Derbyshire, England, situated near the border with Nottinghamshire.
  • C. Souter
    Souter is a surname most prominently associated with David H. Souter, a former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
  • D. Barnes
    Barnes is a riverside district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames known for its village-like atmosphere, green spaces, and historic architecture.
  • E. Sau
    Sau is an ancient city historically known as Sais, a prominent religious and political center in the western Nile Delta of ancient Egypt.
  • 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: Saunders
Triple: [Saunders Mac Lane, givenName, Saunders]
Generated description
Saunders is a given name most notably borne by Saunders Mac Lane, a prominent American mathematician and co-founder of category theory.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Saunders
Target entity description: Saunders is a given name most notably borne by Saunders Mac Lane, a prominent American mathematician and co-founder of category theory.
  • A. Sauer
    Sauer is a German surname borne by various notable individuals in fields such as science, politics, and the arts.
  • B. Sandiacre
    Sandiacre is a village and civil parish in the Erewash district of Derbyshire, England, situated near the border with Nottinghamshire.
  • C. Souter
    Souter is a surname most prominently associated with David H. Souter, a former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
  • D. Barnes
    Barnes is a riverside district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames known for its village-like atmosphere, green spaces, and historic architecture.
  • E. Sau
    Sau is an ancient city historically known as Sais, a prominent religious and political center in the western Nile Delta of ancient Egypt.
  • 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_69a498d883a48190bfdca525296ef7ee completed March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c3361bf08190b3f6bbf82e17685b completed March 1, 2026, 10:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acd48c41f4819092f7e1302d803662 completed March 8, 2026, 1:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acd543a0ac8190b9fd5e921b5ad9ea completed March 8, 2026, 1:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acd5b8fa2481908fd52d94e55b6377 completed March 8, 2026, 1:49 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:59 p.m.