Triple

T1815557
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sciurinae E40427 entity
Predicate firstDescribedBy P7386 FINISHED
Object Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger
Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger was a German zoologist and entomologist known for his influential early 19th-century work in animal classification and taxonomy.
E204426 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: Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger | Statement: [Sciurinae, firstDescribedBy, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger
Context triple: [Sciurinae, firstDescribedBy, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger]
  • A. Leopold Fitzinger
    Leopold Fitzinger was a 19th-century Austrian zoologist and herpetologist known for his influential taxonomic work on reptiles and amphibians.
  • B. Johann Friedrich Gmelin
    Johann Friedrich Gmelin was an 18th-century German naturalist and chemist known for his contributions to taxonomy and for publishing an expanded edition of Linnaeus’s Systema Naturae.
  • C. Pierre André Latreille
    Pierre André Latreille was a prominent French entomologist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for his foundational work in insect classification and taxonomy.
  • D. Louis Pierre Vieillot
    Louis Pierre Vieillot was a French ornithologist known for his pioneering work in classifying and describing numerous bird species in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • E. Nicholas Aylward Vigors
    Nicholas Aylward Vigors was a 19th-century Irish zoologist and politician known for his influential work in ornithology and the classification of birds.
  • 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: Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger
Triple: [Sciurinae, firstDescribedBy, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger]
Generated description
Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger was a German zoologist and entomologist known for his influential early 19th-century work in animal classification and taxonomy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger
Target entity description: Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger was a German zoologist and entomologist known for his influential early 19th-century work in animal classification and taxonomy.
  • A. Leopold Fitzinger
    Leopold Fitzinger was a 19th-century Austrian zoologist and herpetologist known for his influential taxonomic work on reptiles and amphibians.
  • B. Johann Friedrich Gmelin
    Johann Friedrich Gmelin was an 18th-century German naturalist and chemist known for his contributions to taxonomy and for publishing an expanded edition of Linnaeus’s Systema Naturae.
  • C. Pierre André Latreille
    Pierre André Latreille was a prominent French entomologist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for his foundational work in insect classification and taxonomy.
  • D. Louis Pierre Vieillot
    Louis Pierre Vieillot was a French ornithologist known for his pioneering work in classifying and describing numerous bird species in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • E. Nicholas Aylward Vigors
    Nicholas Aylward Vigors was a 19th-century Irish zoologist and politician known for his influential work in ornithology and the classification of birds.
  • 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_69a8864526c081908a3a4d74f689e2c5 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa65f4628481909ca8e4c2302752ac completed March 6, 2026, 5:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adbf5de46c8190817f67d692e98803 completed March 8, 2026, 6:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adc2b4d8a0819080ff41cf73417276 completed March 8, 2026, 6:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adc38732d8819092e0ac76354f08c1 completed March 8, 2026, 6:44 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.