Triple

T16768181
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Austro-Brazilian expedition (1817–1820) E407522 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object Martius and Spix’s journey through Brazil
"Martius and Spix’s journey through Brazil" was a major early 19th-century scientific expedition across Brazil by German naturalists Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius and Johann Baptist von Spix, renowned for its extensive contributions to botany, zoology, and ethnography.
E1232193 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: Martius and Spix’s journey through Brazil | Statement: [Austro-Brazilian expedition (1817–1820), hasPart, Martius and Spix’s journey through Brazil]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Martius and Spix’s journey through Brazil
Context triple: [Austro-Brazilian expedition (1817–1820), hasPart, Martius and Spix’s journey through Brazil]
  • A. The Discovery of Brazil
    The Discovery of Brazil is a monumental painting by Brazilian modernist artist Cândido Portinari that depicts the arrival of the Portuguese in Brazil with dramatic, historically themed imagery.
  • B. Brazilian Adventure
    Brazilian Adventure is a 1933 travel book by British writer Peter Fleming recounting his ill-fated expedition into the Brazilian jungle in search of the missing explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett.
  • C. Brazilian Wilderness (with Theodore Roosevelt)
    "Brazilian Wilderness (with Theodore Roosevelt)" is a travel and exploration narrative recounting Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt’s 1913–1914 expedition through the Brazilian rainforest and down the River of Doubt.
  • D. 1924–1925 Amazon and Rio Branco expedition
    The 1924–1925 Amazon and Rio Branco expedition was a major exploratory and scientific journey led by Alexander Hamilton Rice Jr. that mapped remote regions of the Amazon Basin and advanced geographic and ethnographic knowledge of the area.
  • E. 1916–1917 Amazon Basin expedition
    The 1916–1917 Amazon Basin expedition was an early 20th-century exploratory journey through the Amazon led by American geographer and physician Alexander Hamilton Rice Jr., aimed at mapping remote regions and studying the river system and its surrounding environment.
  • 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: Martius and Spix’s journey through Brazil
Triple: [Austro-Brazilian expedition (1817–1820), hasPart, Martius and Spix’s journey through Brazil]
Generated description
"Martius and Spix’s journey through Brazil" was a major early 19th-century scientific expedition across Brazil by German naturalists Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius and Johann Baptist von Spix, renowned for its extensive contributions to botany, zoology, and ethnography.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Martius and Spix’s journey through Brazil
Target entity description: "Martius and Spix’s journey through Brazil" was a major early 19th-century scientific expedition across Brazil by German naturalists Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius and Johann Baptist von Spix, renowned for its extensive contributions to botany, zoology, and ethnography.
  • A. The Discovery of Brazil
    The Discovery of Brazil is a monumental painting by Brazilian modernist artist Cândido Portinari that depicts the arrival of the Portuguese in Brazil with dramatic, historically themed imagery.
  • B. Brazilian Adventure
    Brazilian Adventure is a 1933 travel book by British writer Peter Fleming recounting his ill-fated expedition into the Brazilian jungle in search of the missing explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett.
  • C. Brazilian Wilderness (with Theodore Roosevelt)
    "Brazilian Wilderness (with Theodore Roosevelt)" is a travel and exploration narrative recounting Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt’s 1913–1914 expedition through the Brazilian rainforest and down the River of Doubt.
  • D. 1924–1925 Amazon and Rio Branco expedition
    The 1924–1925 Amazon and Rio Branco expedition was a major exploratory and scientific journey led by Alexander Hamilton Rice Jr. that mapped remote regions of the Amazon Basin and advanced geographic and ethnographic knowledge of the area.
  • E. 1916–1917 Amazon Basin expedition
    The 1916–1917 Amazon Basin expedition was an early 20th-century exploratory journey through the Amazon led by American geographer and physician Alexander Hamilton Rice Jr., aimed at mapping remote regions and studying the river system and its surrounding environment.
  • 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_69d8839174188190909f190097207065 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3b0349bc88190938750f1e5af192a completed April 18, 2026, 4:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00a533e83481909966a7b86c8c8e64 completed May 10, 2026, 3:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00a6d6a6d08190b103c2dfd30f0e28 completed May 10, 2026, 3:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00a749f2688190af57bd13b9dedeb1 completed May 10, 2026, 3:42 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:21 a.m.