Triple

T16948320
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Çatalhöyük E411120 entity
Predicate excavatedBy P7650 FINISHED
Object James Mellaart
James Mellaart was a British archaeologist best known for his pioneering and controversial excavations of Neolithic sites in Anatolia, particularly in modern-day Turkey.
E1241636 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: James Mellaart | Statement: [Çatalhöyük, excavatedBy, James Mellaart]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Mellaart
Context triple: [Çatalhöyük, excavatedBy, James Mellaart]
  • A. Colin Renfrew
    Colin Renfrew is a prominent British archaeologist and prehistorian known for his influential work on the prehistory of the Aegean and for reshaping theories about the origins of European civilization.
  • B. Stuart Piggott
    Stuart Piggott was a prominent 20th-century British archaeologist and prehistorian known for his influential excavations and scholarship on Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain.
  • C. Alfred Ernest Shennan
    Alfred Ernest Shennan was a British architect known for designing notable civic buildings in the early 20th century.
  • D. Kathleen Kenyon
    Kathleen Kenyon was a pioneering British archaeologist renowned for her influential excavations in the Levant, especially at Jericho and Jerusalem.
  • E. Vere Gordon Childe
    Vere Gordon Childe was an influential Australian archaeologist and prehistorian best known for his theories on the Neolithic and Urban Revolutions and his excavations of key prehistoric sites in Europe.
  • 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: James Mellaart
Triple: [Çatalhöyük, excavatedBy, James Mellaart]
Generated description
James Mellaart was a British archaeologist best known for his pioneering and controversial excavations of Neolithic sites in Anatolia, particularly in modern-day Turkey.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Mellaart
Target entity description: James Mellaart was a British archaeologist best known for his pioneering and controversial excavations of Neolithic sites in Anatolia, particularly in modern-day Turkey.
  • A. Colin Renfrew
    Colin Renfrew is a prominent British archaeologist and prehistorian known for his influential work on the prehistory of the Aegean and for reshaping theories about the origins of European civilization.
  • B. Stuart Piggott
    Stuart Piggott was a prominent 20th-century British archaeologist and prehistorian known for his influential excavations and scholarship on Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain.
  • C. Alfred Ernest Shennan
    Alfred Ernest Shennan was a British architect known for designing notable civic buildings in the early 20th century.
  • D. Kathleen Kenyon
    Kathleen Kenyon was a pioneering British archaeologist renowned for her influential excavations in the Levant, especially at Jericho and Jerusalem.
  • E. Vere Gordon Childe
    Vere Gordon Childe was an influential Australian archaeologist and prehistorian best known for his theories on the Neolithic and Urban Revolutions and his excavations of key prehistoric sites in Europe.
  • 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_69d886c886688190967be07322597ac9 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3cfb4b1b08190b608d36a209ed6bd completed April 18, 2026, 6:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00cfeeee948190a5c8904d1f559a28 completed May 10, 2026, 6:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00d0c0ecc48190b88dcb170926bf16 completed May 10, 2026, 6:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00d194e9e08190bf0c4c0fe3921978 completed May 10, 2026, 6:42 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.