Triple

T16252150
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Doc E394535 entity
Predicate basedOn P98 FINISHED
Object Ed Ricketts
Ed Ricketts was an American marine biologist and ecologist best known as John Steinbeck’s close friend and the inspiration for several of his literary characters, as well as for coauthoring the influential work "Sea of Cortez."
E1203166 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: Ed Ricketts | Statement: [Doc, basedOn, Ed Ricketts]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ed Ricketts
Context triple: [Doc, basedOn, Ed Ricketts]
  • A. Charles F. Muntz
    Charles F. Muntz is the obsessed and disgraced explorer villain from Pixar's animated film "Up," known for his ruthless quest to capture a rare bird.
  • B. Robert Francis Goldthwait
    Robert Francis Goldthwait, better known as Bobcat Goldthwait, is an American comedian, actor, and filmmaker recognized for his high-pitched, energetic stand-up style and roles in films like the Police Academy series.
  • C. Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell
    Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell was a prolific British-American zoologist, entomologist, and taxonomist known for describing thousands of species, especially bees and fossil insects, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. George E. Merrick
    George E. Merrick was an American real estate developer and city planner best known for creating the planned community of Coral Gables, Florida.
  • E. William Morton Wheeler
    William Morton Wheeler was an American entomologist and myrmecologist renowned for his pioneering studies of ants and their social behavior.
  • 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: Ed Ricketts
Triple: [Doc, basedOn, Ed Ricketts]
Generated description
Ed Ricketts was an American marine biologist and ecologist best known as John Steinbeck’s close friend and the inspiration for several of his literary characters, as well as for coauthoring the influential work "Sea of Cortez."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ed Ricketts
Target entity description: Ed Ricketts was an American marine biologist and ecologist best known as John Steinbeck’s close friend and the inspiration for several of his literary characters, as well as for coauthoring the influential work "Sea of Cortez."
  • A. Charles F. Muntz
    Charles F. Muntz is the obsessed and disgraced explorer villain from Pixar's animated film "Up," known for his ruthless quest to capture a rare bird.
  • B. Robert Francis Goldthwait
    Robert Francis Goldthwait, better known as Bobcat Goldthwait, is an American comedian, actor, and filmmaker recognized for his high-pitched, energetic stand-up style and roles in films like the Police Academy series.
  • C. Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell
    Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell was a prolific British-American zoologist, entomologist, and taxonomist known for describing thousands of species, especially bees and fossil insects, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. George E. Merrick
    George E. Merrick was an American real estate developer and city planner best known for creating the planned community of Coral Gables, Florida.
  • E. William Morton Wheeler
    William Morton Wheeler was an American entomologist and myrmecologist renowned for his pioneering studies of ants and their social behavior.
  • 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_69d87f2171208190951025e526947816 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e24597b74481908fdb8175628a57a1 completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0017b1e22c8190bddca67661121c2d completed May 10, 2026, 5:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a001884e88881908713eef769f075d2 completed May 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00191cabf48190872fdeb88b92aefc completed May 10, 2026, 5:35 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:04 a.m.