Triple
T22117083
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Taung Child |
E546570
|
entity |
| Predicate | associatedWithResearcher |
P28320
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Phillip V. Tobias |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Phillip V. Tobias | Statement: [Taung Child, associatedWithResearcher, Phillip V. Tobias]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Phillip V. Tobias Context triple: [Taung Child, associatedWithResearcher, Phillip V. Tobias]
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A.
Rainer M. Blair
Rainer M. Blair is an American business executive best known for serving as president and chief executive officer of the global science and technology company Danaher Corporation.
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B.
Russell Merrill
Russell Merrill was an early Alaskan aviation pioneer and pilot after whom Anchorage’s Merrill Field airport is named.
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C.
Arthur Marks
Arthur Marks was an American film and television director and producer best known for his work on 1970s blaxploitation films and numerous episodes of the series "Perry Mason."
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D.
Philip Siler
Philip Siler is a notable member of the Siler family, recognized for his significance within that lineage.
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E.
Paul S. Morton
Paul S. Morton is an American Baptist pastor, gospel singer, and founding bishop of the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Phillip V. Tobias Target entity description: Phillip V. Tobias was a prominent South African paleoanthropologist renowned for his influential research on early hominins and human evolution.
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A.
Rainer M. Blair
Rainer M. Blair is an American business executive best known for serving as president and chief executive officer of the global science and technology company Danaher Corporation.
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B.
Russell Merrill
Russell Merrill was an early Alaskan aviation pioneer and pilot after whom Anchorage’s Merrill Field airport is named.
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C.
Arthur Marks
Arthur Marks was an American film and television director and producer best known for his work on 1970s blaxploitation films and numerous episodes of the series "Perry Mason."
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D.
Philip Siler
Philip Siler is a notable member of the Siler family, recognized for his significance within that lineage.
-
E.
Paul S. Morton
Paul S. Morton is an American Baptist pastor, gospel singer, and founding bishop of the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship.
- F. None of above. chosen
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_69e11e38b3848190ac3a4fa97d56e65a |
completed | April 16, 2026, 5:36 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f1294e85708190b455846bacbdfd03 |
completed | April 28, 2026, 9:40 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:31 p.m.