Triple

T17125093
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tapinoma sessile E415572 entity
Predicate describedBy P264 FINISHED
Object Thomas Say
Thomas Say was an early 19th-century American naturalist and entomologist, often called the "father of American entomology" for his pioneering work in describing North American insects and other animals.
E1251293 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: Thomas Say | Statement: [Tapinoma sessile, describedBy, Thomas Say]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Say
Context triple: [Tapinoma sessile, describedBy, Thomas Say]
  • A. Spencer Fullerton Baird
    Spencer Fullerton Baird was a 19th-century American naturalist and ornithologist who became the second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and made major contributions to the study and cataloging of North American wildlife.
  • B. Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
    Constantine Samuel Rafinesque was a 19th-century polymath naturalist and taxonomist known for his prolific and often controversial descriptions of new species in North America and beyond.
  • C. John Cassin
    John Cassin was a 19th-century American ornithologist known for describing numerous bird species and contributing significantly to early American bird taxonomy.
  • D. Samuel Scudder
    Samuel Scudder is a DC Comics supervillain better known as the original Mirror Master, an enemy of the Flash who uses advanced mirror technology for crime.
  • E. Caspar F. Goodrich
    Caspar F. Goodrich was a United States Navy rear admiral known for his service in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including roles in the Spanish–American War and as an influential naval strategist and writer.
  • 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: Thomas Say
Triple: [Tapinoma sessile, describedBy, Thomas Say]
Generated description
Thomas Say was an early 19th-century American naturalist and entomologist, often called the "father of American entomology" for his pioneering work in describing North American insects and other animals.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Say
Target entity description: Thomas Say was an early 19th-century American naturalist and entomologist, often called the "father of American entomology" for his pioneering work in describing North American insects and other animals.
  • A. Spencer Fullerton Baird
    Spencer Fullerton Baird was a 19th-century American naturalist and ornithologist who became the second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and made major contributions to the study and cataloging of North American wildlife.
  • B. Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
    Constantine Samuel Rafinesque was a 19th-century polymath naturalist and taxonomist known for his prolific and often controversial descriptions of new species in North America and beyond.
  • C. John Cassin
    John Cassin was a 19th-century American ornithologist known for describing numerous bird species and contributing significantly to early American bird taxonomy.
  • D. Samuel Scudder
    Samuel Scudder is a DC Comics supervillain better known as the original Mirror Master, an enemy of the Flash who uses advanced mirror technology for crime.
  • E. Caspar F. Goodrich
    Caspar F. Goodrich was a United States Navy rear admiral known for his service in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including roles in the Spanish–American War and as an influential naval strategist and writer.
  • 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_69d886d090cc8190a39cb94992586905 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3f025fce481908e261f2e363e14f9 completed April 18, 2026, 8:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a013a12a7288190911c1be2667916c0 completed May 11, 2026, 2:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a013a8e69388190b8d48d70a28e99bd completed May 11, 2026, 2:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a013b6824888190853cf36548507e1b completed May 11, 2026, 2:14 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:36 a.m.