Triple

T1851810
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Henry Chandler Cowles E41610 entity
Predicate doctoralAdvisor P167 FINISHED
Object John Merle Coulter
John Merle Coulter was an influential American botanist and educator known for his extensive work in plant taxonomy and for helping to establish botany as a rigorous scientific discipline in the United States.
E205001 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 Merle Coulter | Statement: [Henry Chandler Cowles, doctoralAdvisor, John Merle Coulter]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Merle Coulter
Context triple: [Henry Chandler Cowles, doctoralAdvisor, John Merle Coulter]
  • A. Sidney Blackmer
    Sidney Blackmer was an American stage, film, and television actor best known for his character roles in classic Hollywood cinema, including his memorable performance in "Rosemary's Baby."
  • B. E. D. Nixon
    E. D. Nixon was an African American civil rights leader and NAACP organizer in Montgomery, Alabama, who played a key role in initiating and organizing the Montgomery bus boycott.
  • C. William Penn Adair Rogers
    William Penn Adair Rogers, better known as Will Rogers, was a famed American humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer, and film actor renowned for his folksy wit and political satire in the early 20th century.
  • D. A. H. Johnson
    A. H. Johnson was one of the climbers credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States.
  • E. George Comstock
    George Comstock was an American astronomer and academic known for his contributions to observational astronomy and his role in shaping professional astronomical organizations in the United States.
  • 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 Merle Coulter
Triple: [Henry Chandler Cowles, doctoralAdvisor, John Merle Coulter]
Generated description
John Merle Coulter was an influential American botanist and educator known for his extensive work in plant taxonomy and for helping to establish botany as a rigorous scientific discipline in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Merle Coulter
Target entity description: John Merle Coulter was an influential American botanist and educator known for his extensive work in plant taxonomy and for helping to establish botany as a rigorous scientific discipline in the United States.
  • A. Sidney Blackmer
    Sidney Blackmer was an American stage, film, and television actor best known for his character roles in classic Hollywood cinema, including his memorable performance in "Rosemary's Baby."
  • B. E. D. Nixon
    E. D. Nixon was an African American civil rights leader and NAACP organizer in Montgomery, Alabama, who played a key role in initiating and organizing the Montgomery bus boycott.
  • C. William Penn Adair Rogers
    William Penn Adair Rogers, better known as Will Rogers, was a famed American humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer, and film actor renowned for his folksy wit and political satire in the early 20th century.
  • D. A. H. Johnson
    A. H. Johnson was one of the climbers credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States.
  • E. George Comstock
    George Comstock was an American astronomer and academic known for his contributions to observational astronomy and his role in shaping professional astronomical organizations in the United States.
  • 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_69a8864a83848190a4ec02721306c511 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb06829b081908767b3df5524c7d4 completed March 7, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adc9c81f2c81908339f6a1d1987631 completed March 8, 2026, 7:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adcb1565a881908dfc906654429e3f completed March 8, 2026, 7:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adcbbc8a108190ad77e91f2ec14b8f completed March 8, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.