Triple

T2443563
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bronx Zoo E53333 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object William Temple Hornaday
William Temple Hornaday was an American zoologist and conservationist known for pioneering wildlife protection efforts and helping to save the American bison from extinction.
E267438 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: William Temple Hornaday | Statement: [Bronx Zoo, founder, William Temple Hornaday]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Temple Hornaday
Context triple: [Bronx Zoo, founder, William Temple Hornaday]
  • A. Clinton Hart Merriam
    Clinton Hart Merriam was an American zoologist and ethnographer known for his pioneering work in North American mammalogy and biogeography.
  • B. Kurt Akeley
    Kurt Akeley is a pioneering computer graphics engineer and co-founder of Silicon Graphics (SGI), known for his influential work on high-performance 3D graphics hardware and APIs.
  • C. John Galen Howard
    John Galen Howard was an influential American architect best known for shaping the early 20th-century architectural landscape of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
  • D. William J. Schieffelin Jr.
    William J. Schieffelin Jr. was an American businessman and philanthropist notable for his leadership in public health and charitable organizations, including early cancer control efforts.
  • E. Matthew Meigs
    Matthew Meigs was an American educator and Presbyterian minister best known for establishing The Hill School, a prominent preparatory boarding school in Pennsylvania.
  • 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: William Temple Hornaday
Triple: [Bronx Zoo, founder, William Temple Hornaday]
Generated description
William Temple Hornaday was an American zoologist and conservationist known for pioneering wildlife protection efforts and helping to save the American bison from extinction.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Temple Hornaday
Target entity description: William Temple Hornaday was an American zoologist and conservationist known for pioneering wildlife protection efforts and helping to save the American bison from extinction.
  • A. Clinton Hart Merriam
    Clinton Hart Merriam was an American zoologist and ethnographer known for his pioneering work in North American mammalogy and biogeography.
  • B. Kurt Akeley
    Kurt Akeley is a pioneering computer graphics engineer and co-founder of Silicon Graphics (SGI), known for his influential work on high-performance 3D graphics hardware and APIs.
  • C. John Galen Howard
    John Galen Howard was an influential American architect best known for shaping the early 20th-century architectural landscape of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
  • D. William J. Schieffelin Jr.
    William J. Schieffelin Jr. was an American businessman and philanthropist notable for his leadership in public health and charitable organizations, including early cancer control efforts.
  • E. Matthew Meigs
    Matthew Meigs was an American educator and Presbyterian minister best known for establishing The Hill School, a prominent preparatory boarding school in Pennsylvania.
  • 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_69ab495b6dac8190ac82661aa1452222 completed March 6, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abca22aa708190a1489234373cca65 completed March 7, 2026, 6:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aef0b768f8819084fb74a3a2643cb8 completed March 9, 2026, 4:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aef5de0e4c8190af460b7e2fb2a5eb completed March 9, 2026, 4:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aef68a6a18819097876fea0120103b completed March 9, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:43 p.m.