Triple

T14230453
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bureau of American Ethnology E352735 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Matthew W. Stirling
Matthew W. Stirling was an American archaeologist and ethnologist best known for his pioneering excavations of Olmec sites in Mexico and his influential leadership in U.S. government-sponsored anthropological research.
E1183033 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: Matthew W. Stirling | Statement: [Bureau of American Ethnology, director, Matthew W. Stirling]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Matthew W. Stirling
Context triple: [Bureau of American Ethnology, director, Matthew W. Stirling]
  • A. William J. McAlpine
    William J. McAlpine was a 19th-century American civil engineer and public official known for his leadership in the development and administration of New York’s canal system.
  • B. Donald C. MacPherson
    Donald C. MacPherson was the injured consumer whose landmark lawsuit against Buick Motor Company helped establish modern product liability law in the United States.
  • C. Angus G. Wynne
    Angus G. Wynne was an American real estate developer and entrepreneur best known for creating the Six Flags chain of amusement parks.
  • D. James C. Adamson
    James C. Adamson is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Army colonel who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and contributed to both spaceflight operations and aerospace management.
  • E. William Ross
    William Ross is an American composer, orchestrator, and conductor known for his work on numerous film scores and collaborations with major Hollywood productions.
  • 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: Matthew W. Stirling
Triple: [Bureau of American Ethnology, director, Matthew W. Stirling]
Generated description
Matthew W. Stirling was an American archaeologist and ethnologist best known for his pioneering excavations of Olmec sites in Mexico and his influential leadership in U.S. government-sponsored anthropological research.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Matthew W. Stirling
Target entity description: Matthew W. Stirling was an American archaeologist and ethnologist best known for his pioneering excavations of Olmec sites in Mexico and his influential leadership in U.S. government-sponsored anthropological research.
  • A. William J. McAlpine
    William J. McAlpine was a 19th-century American civil engineer and public official known for his leadership in the development and administration of New York’s canal system.
  • B. Donald C. MacPherson
    Donald C. MacPherson was the injured consumer whose landmark lawsuit against Buick Motor Company helped establish modern product liability law in the United States.
  • C. Angus G. Wynne
    Angus G. Wynne was an American real estate developer and entrepreneur best known for creating the Six Flags chain of amusement parks.
  • D. James C. Adamson
    James C. Adamson is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Army colonel who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and contributed to both spaceflight operations and aerospace management.
  • E. William Ross
    William Ross is an American composer, orchestrator, and conductor known for his work on numerous film scores and collaborations with major Hollywood productions.
  • 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_69d8278adc7c8190a9218d69bce3c4e6 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de622b89fc8190af08dab9e1976759 completed April 14, 2026, 3:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffb02d84d881909aa8a1a3653d37bf completed May 9, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffb25001d08190abcabfb6ce0e1029 completed May 9, 2026, 10:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffb2ab22dc8190b8cb0403ec0a09c4 completed May 9, 2026, 10:18 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:07 a.m.