Triple
T21985881
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Henry Lang |
E542959
|
entity |
| Predicate | studied |
P778
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Devonian flora |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Devonian flora | Statement: [William Henry Lang, studied, Devonian flora]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Devonian flora Context triple: [William Henry Lang, studied, Devonian flora]
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A.
Devonian fossil forests
chosen
Devonian fossil forests are some of the oldest known forest ecosystems on Earth, preserving early tree-like plants that reveal how terrestrial forests first evolved and transformed the planet’s environment.
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B.
Rhynia
Rhynia is an extinct genus of simple, leafless vascular plants from the Early Devonian period that represents one of the earliest well-preserved examples of land plant evolution.
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C.
Gondwanan flora
Gondwanan flora comprises ancient plant lineages that originated on the prehistoric supercontinent Gondwana and today are characteristically found in Southern Hemisphere regions such as parts of South America, Australasia, and Antarctica.
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D.
Dryophytes
Dryophytes is a genus of small arboreal treefrogs in the family Hylidae, native to North America and parts of Asia.
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E.
Sigillaria
Sigillaria is an extinct genus of tall, spore-bearing lycopsid trees that dominated Carboniferous coal swamp forests.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69e0c48136b081908831fa907cc02e18 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f12709cb288190a2620e337fea364c |
completed | April 28, 2026, 9:30 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:04 p.m.