Triple

T15223403
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Burgess Shale E363816 entity
Predicate discoveredBy P412 FINISHED
Object Charles Doolittle Walcott
Charles Doolittle Walcott was an American paleontologist and Smithsonian administrator best known for his pioneering early-20th-century work on Cambrian fossils, including the famous Burgess Shale fauna.
E1145870 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: Charles Doolittle Walcott | Statement: [Burgess Shale, discoveredBy, Charles Doolittle Walcott]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Doolittle Walcott
Context triple: [Burgess Shale, discoveredBy, Charles Doolittle Walcott]
  • A. Othniel Charles Marsh
    Othniel Charles Marsh was a pioneering 19th-century American paleontologist known for his extensive dinosaur discoveries and his central role in the “Bone Wars” fossil-hunting rivalry.
  • B. George Montague Wheeler
    George Montague Wheeler was a 19th-century American surveyor and army officer best known for leading the Wheeler Survey, a major U.S. government mapping and exploration project of the American West.
  • C. William Shepard Wetmore
    William Shepard Wetmore was a 19th-century American China trade merchant and prominent Newport, Rhode Island businessman and philanthropist.
  • D. Charles W. Gilmore
    Charles W. Gilmore was an American paleontologist known for his extensive work on dinosaur fossils at the Smithsonian Institution in the early 20th century.
  • E. Henry Fairfield Osborn
    Henry Fairfield Osborn was an American paleontologist and museum president best known for his influential work on dinosaur classification and the early description of iconic species like Tyrannosaurus rex.
  • 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: Charles Doolittle Walcott
Triple: [Burgess Shale, discoveredBy, Charles Doolittle Walcott]
Generated description
Charles Doolittle Walcott was an American paleontologist and Smithsonian administrator best known for his pioneering early-20th-century work on Cambrian fossils, including the famous Burgess Shale fauna.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Doolittle Walcott
Target entity description: Charles Doolittle Walcott was an American paleontologist and Smithsonian administrator best known for his pioneering early-20th-century work on Cambrian fossils, including the famous Burgess Shale fauna.
  • A. Othniel Charles Marsh
    Othniel Charles Marsh was a pioneering 19th-century American paleontologist known for his extensive dinosaur discoveries and his central role in the “Bone Wars” fossil-hunting rivalry.
  • B. George Montague Wheeler
    George Montague Wheeler was a 19th-century American surveyor and army officer best known for leading the Wheeler Survey, a major U.S. government mapping and exploration project of the American West.
  • C. William Shepard Wetmore
    William Shepard Wetmore was a 19th-century American China trade merchant and prominent Newport, Rhode Island businessman and philanthropist.
  • D. Charles W. Gilmore
    Charles W. Gilmore was an American paleontologist known for his extensive work on dinosaur fossils at the Smithsonian Institution in the early 20th century.
  • E. Henry Fairfield Osborn
    Henry Fairfield Osborn was an American paleontologist and museum president best known for his influential work on dinosaur classification and the early description of iconic species like Tyrannosaurus rex.
  • 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_69d85a0ce24c81909c4d3b6475548c95 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e0078a9318819081db3b7bcc28e04f completed April 15, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fedd3397a48190bae8b2a359ee4ae8 completed May 9, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fedf8589888190b705177fc6efdde0 completed May 9, 2026, 7:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fee0e3fc9881909f67a86d67a3f61b completed May 9, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:12 a.m.