Triple

T1759200
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Monera E38616 entity
Predicate recognizedBy P653 FINISHED
Object R. H. Whittaker
R. H. Whittaker was an American ecologist best known for proposing the five-kingdom classification system of life, which significantly reshaped modern biological taxonomy.
E196715 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: R. H. Whittaker | Statement: [Monera, recognizedBy, R. H. Whittaker]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: R. H. Whittaker
Context triple: [Monera, recognizedBy, R. H. Whittaker]
  • A. William L Whittaker
    William L. "Red" Whittaker is a pioneering roboticist and Carnegie Mellon University professor known for his groundbreaking work in field robotics and autonomous vehicles.
  • B. G. Evelyn Hutchinson
    G. Evelyn Hutchinson was a pioneering 20th-century ecologist often called the "father of modern ecology" for his influential work on ecological niches, limnology, and the theoretical foundations of population and community ecology.
  • C. Geoffrey Simpson
    Geoffrey Simpson is an Australian cinematographer known for his work on feature films including the 1994 adaptation of "Little Women."
  • D. George Gaylord Simpson
    George Gaylord Simpson was a prominent American paleontologist whose work on fossil mammals and evolutionary theory helped shape the modern evolutionary synthesis.
  • E. G. Ledyard Stebbins
    G. Ledyard Stebbins was an American botanist and geneticist whose pioneering work on plant evolution helped shape and solidify the modern evolutionary synthesis.
  • 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: R. H. Whittaker
Triple: [Monera, recognizedBy, R. H. Whittaker]
Generated description
R. H. Whittaker was an American ecologist best known for proposing the five-kingdom classification system of life, which significantly reshaped modern biological taxonomy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: R. H. Whittaker
Target entity description: R. H. Whittaker was an American ecologist best known for proposing the five-kingdom classification system of life, which significantly reshaped modern biological taxonomy.
  • A. William L Whittaker
    William L. "Red" Whittaker is a pioneering roboticist and Carnegie Mellon University professor known for his groundbreaking work in field robotics and autonomous vehicles.
  • B. G. Evelyn Hutchinson
    G. Evelyn Hutchinson was a pioneering 20th-century ecologist often called the "father of modern ecology" for his influential work on ecological niches, limnology, and the theoretical foundations of population and community ecology.
  • C. Geoffrey Simpson
    Geoffrey Simpson is an Australian cinematographer known for his work on feature films including the 1994 adaptation of "Little Women."
  • D. George Gaylord Simpson
    George Gaylord Simpson was a prominent American paleontologist whose work on fossil mammals and evolutionary theory helped shape the modern evolutionary synthesis.
  • E. G. Ledyard Stebbins
    G. Ledyard Stebbins was an American botanist and geneticist whose pioneering work on plant evolution helped shape and solidify the modern evolutionary synthesis.
  • 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_69a8862d562481908d7025a1c1f67c0d completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa643f6a188190a250d5982badcce5 completed March 6, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ada0ec80f48190bcdc92e5ed4e44e6 completed March 8, 2026, 4:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ada1e3587c8190bca329c68ff31c41 completed March 8, 2026, 4:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ada2977bfc8190ad028e17184fccaa completed March 8, 2026, 4:23 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:31 p.m.