Triple

T1402667
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Palenque E31619 entity
Predicate earlyExplorer P27601 FINISHED
Object John Lloyd Stephens
John Lloyd Stephens was a 19th-century American explorer and writer renowned for his pioneering documentation of ancient Maya ruins in Central America and Mexico.
E160543 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: John Lloyd Stephens | Statement: [Palenque, earlyExplorer, John Lloyd Stephens]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Lloyd Stephens
Context triple: [Palenque, earlyExplorer, John Lloyd Stephens]
  • A. Hiram Bingham
    Hiram Bingham was an American explorer and academic best known for bringing international attention to the Incan citadel of Machu Picchu in the early 20th century.
  • B. Percy Fawcett
    Percy Fawcett was a British explorer and archaeologist famed for his expeditions into the Amazon rainforest and his mysterious disappearance while searching for a lost ancient city.
  • C. David Livingstone
    David Livingstone was a 19th-century Scottish missionary and explorer renowned for his extensive travels in Africa and his influential role in mapping and documenting the continent for Europeans.
  • D. Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
    Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier was a Swiss-American archaeologist and ethnologist known for his pioneering studies of Indigenous cultures and ancient ruins in the American Southwest and Mexico.
  • E. Johann Ludwig Burckhardt
    Johann Ludwig Burckhardt was a Swiss explorer and orientalist best known for rediscovering the ancient city of Petra and other significant archaeological sites in the Middle East in the early 19th century.
  • 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: John Lloyd Stephens
Triple: [Palenque, earlyExplorer, John Lloyd Stephens]
Generated description
John Lloyd Stephens was a 19th-century American explorer and writer renowned for his pioneering documentation of ancient Maya ruins in Central America and Mexico.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Lloyd Stephens
Target entity description: John Lloyd Stephens was a 19th-century American explorer and writer renowned for his pioneering documentation of ancient Maya ruins in Central America and Mexico.
  • A. Hiram Bingham
    Hiram Bingham was an American explorer and academic best known for bringing international attention to the Incan citadel of Machu Picchu in the early 20th century.
  • B. Percy Fawcett
    Percy Fawcett was a British explorer and archaeologist famed for his expeditions into the Amazon rainforest and his mysterious disappearance while searching for a lost ancient city.
  • C. David Livingstone
    David Livingstone was a 19th-century Scottish missionary and explorer renowned for his extensive travels in Africa and his influential role in mapping and documenting the continent for Europeans.
  • D. Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
    Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier was a Swiss-American archaeologist and ethnologist known for his pioneering studies of Indigenous cultures and ancient ruins in the American Southwest and Mexico.
  • E. Johann Ludwig Burckhardt
    Johann Ludwig Burckhardt was a Swiss explorer and orientalist best known for rediscovering the ancient city of Petra and other significant archaeological sites in the Middle East in the early 19th century.
  • 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_69a49918e1f88190ba610f9dc8114578 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c48ff58c8190aeaf09d3e7cad7c7 completed March 1, 2026, 10:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acde39d14c81909a76704c8e16c744 completed March 8, 2026, 2:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acdfc287648190b9a7313a074ceea5 completed March 8, 2026, 2:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ace0b0c14481909559f926c190c146 completed March 8, 2026, 2:36 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:59 p.m.