Triple

T16749171
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William John Swainson E407028 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Zoological Illustrations
Zoological Illustrations is a 19th-century series of finely detailed, hand-colored zoological plates that helped popularize and document animal species during the early development of modern natural history.
E1232538 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: Zoological Illustrations | Statement: [William John Swainson, notableWork, Zoological Illustrations]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zoological Illustrations
Context triple: [William John Swainson, notableWork, Zoological Illustrations]
  • A. Spicilegia Zoologica
    Spicilegia Zoologica is an 18th-century zoological work by Peter Simon Pallas that introduced and described numerous new animal species.
  • B. zoology gallery
    The zoology gallery is a section of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History that showcases animal specimens and exhibits on animal biology and diversity.
  • C. Grzimek
    Grzimek is a German surname most prominently associated with zoologist and conservationist Bernhard Grzimek and his family.
  • D. Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America
    Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America is a 19th-century ornithological work by John Cassin featuring detailed descriptions and plates of bird species from the western and northwestern regions of North America.
  • E. Impey Album of bird and animal paintings
    The Impey Album of bird and animal paintings is an 18th-century collection of natural history illustrations commissioned in India that showcases detailed depictions of local fauna by artists of the Company painting tradition.
  • 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: Zoological Illustrations
Triple: [William John Swainson, notableWork, Zoological Illustrations]
Generated description
Zoological Illustrations is a 19th-century series of finely detailed, hand-colored zoological plates that helped popularize and document animal species during the early development of modern natural history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zoological Illustrations
Target entity description: Zoological Illustrations is a 19th-century series of finely detailed, hand-colored zoological plates that helped popularize and document animal species during the early development of modern natural history.
  • A. Spicilegia Zoologica
    Spicilegia Zoologica is an 18th-century zoological work by Peter Simon Pallas that introduced and described numerous new animal species.
  • B. zoology gallery
    The zoology gallery is a section of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History that showcases animal specimens and exhibits on animal biology and diversity.
  • C. Grzimek
    Grzimek is a German surname most prominently associated with zoologist and conservationist Bernhard Grzimek and his family.
  • D. Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America
    Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America is a 19th-century ornithological work by John Cassin featuring detailed descriptions and plates of bird species from the western and northwestern regions of North America.
  • E. Impey Album of bird and animal paintings
    The Impey Album of bird and animal paintings is an 18th-century collection of natural history illustrations commissioned in India that showcases detailed depictions of local fauna by artists of the Company painting tradition.
  • 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_69d8838ffb088190a0b11149929006bf completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3aa2532ac81908e5ee5148e35f92e completed April 18, 2026, 3:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00a522255c8190ab16d7ad233fcd3b completed May 10, 2026, 3:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00a6b2d7b08190841de0e849eac604 completed May 10, 2026, 3:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00a761530481909b27b6844d2324f0 completed May 10, 2026, 3:42 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:21 a.m.