Triple

T1838323
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject National Geographic Society E41116 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object John Wesley Powell
John Wesley Powell was a 19th-century American geologist, explorer, and ethnologist best known for leading the first documented expedition through the Grand Canyon and for his influential work in Western land and water policy.
E206777 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: John Wesley Powell | Statement: [National Geographic Society, foundedBy, John Wesley Powell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Wesley Powell
Context triple: [National Geographic Society, foundedBy, John Wesley Powell]
  • A. John W. Gunnison
    John W. Gunnison was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for surveying routes in the American West before his death during an expedition in Utah.
  • B. Grove Karl Gilbert
    Grove Karl Gilbert was a pioneering American geologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned for his foundational work in geomorphology and studies of the western United States.
  • C. Sanford Robinson Gifford
    Sanford Robinson Gifford was a 19th-century American landscape painter renowned for his luminous, atmospheric scenes that made him a leading figure in the Hudson River School.
  • D. William A. Clark
    William A. Clark was a wealthy 19th-century American copper magnate and U.S. senator from Montana, often cited as an archetype of the Gilded Age industrialist and political power broker.
  • E. Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter
    Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter was an American philanthropist and arts patron whose support and legacy are commemorated by the naming of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.
  • 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: John Wesley Powell
Triple: [National Geographic Society, foundedBy, John Wesley Powell]
Generated description
John Wesley Powell was a 19th-century American geologist, explorer, and ethnologist best known for leading the first documented expedition through the Grand Canyon and for his influential work in Western land and water policy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Wesley Powell
Target entity description: John Wesley Powell was a 19th-century American geologist, explorer, and ethnologist best known for leading the first documented expedition through the Grand Canyon and for his influential work in Western land and water policy.
  • A. John W. Gunnison
    John W. Gunnison was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for surveying routes in the American West before his death during an expedition in Utah.
  • B. Grove Karl Gilbert
    Grove Karl Gilbert was a pioneering American geologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned for his foundational work in geomorphology and studies of the western United States.
  • C. Sanford Robinson Gifford
    Sanford Robinson Gifford was a 19th-century American landscape painter renowned for his luminous, atmospheric scenes that made him a leading figure in the Hudson River School.
  • D. William A. Clark
    William A. Clark was a wealthy 19th-century American copper magnate and U.S. senator from Montana, often cited as an archetype of the Gilded Age industrialist and political power broker.
  • E. Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter
    Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter was an American philanthropist and arts patron whose support and legacy are commemorated by the naming of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.
  • 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_69a88647f9388190909bc36e795bdaec completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb039cb588190b2626245a7f0bd67 completed March 7, 2026, 4:57 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adc9b93cd08190a467b56a0c0bd957 completed March 8, 2026, 7:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adcaf078a0819082c4bb48a3820ada completed March 8, 2026, 7:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adce8a68848190ab56f5df7311dbca completed March 8, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.