Triple

T2727091
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Physocarpus E60219 entity
Predicate genusAuthor P7386 FINISHED
Object Thomas Nuttall
Thomas Nuttall was a 19th-century English-born American botanist and zoologist known for his extensive exploration and classification of North American flora and fauna.
E292511 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Thomas Nuttall | Statement: [Physocarpus, genusAuthor, Thomas Nuttall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Nuttall
Context triple: [Physocarpus, genusAuthor, Thomas Nuttall]
  • A. Joseph Dalton Hooker
    Joseph Dalton Hooker was a prominent 19th-century British botanist and explorer who served as director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and was a close collaborator of Charles Darwin.
  • B. George Bentham
    George Bentham was a prominent 19th-century British botanist renowned for his extensive work in plant taxonomy and for co-authoring the influential "Genera Plantarum."
  • C. Philip Miller
    Philip Miller was an 18th-century Scottish botanist and chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden, renowned for his influential horticultural reference work "The Gardener's Dictionary."
  • D. Ferdinand von Mueller
    Ferdinand von Mueller was a prominent 19th-century German-Australian botanist and explorer who made major contributions to the study and classification of Australian flora.
  • E. John Stevens Henslow
    John Stevens Henslow was a 19th-century English clergyman, botanist, and geologist best known as Charles Darwin’s mentor and a pioneering botanical educator.
  • 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: Thomas Nuttall
Triple: [Physocarpus, genusAuthor, Thomas Nuttall]
Generated description
Thomas Nuttall was a 19th-century English-born American botanist and zoologist known for his extensive exploration and classification of North American flora and fauna.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Nuttall
Target entity description: Thomas Nuttall was a 19th-century English-born American botanist and zoologist known for his extensive exploration and classification of North American flora and fauna.
  • A. Joseph Dalton Hooker
    Joseph Dalton Hooker was a prominent 19th-century British botanist and explorer who served as director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and was a close collaborator of Charles Darwin.
  • B. George Bentham
    George Bentham was a prominent 19th-century British botanist renowned for his extensive work in plant taxonomy and for co-authoring the influential "Genera Plantarum."
  • C. Philip Miller
    Philip Miller was an 18th-century Scottish botanist and chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden, renowned for his influential horticultural reference work "The Gardener's Dictionary."
  • D. Ferdinand von Mueller
    Ferdinand von Mueller was a prominent 19th-century German-Australian botanist and explorer who made major contributions to the study and classification of Australian flora.
  • E. John Stevens Henslow
    John Stevens Henslow was a 19th-century English clergyman, botanist, and geologist best known as Charles Darwin’s mentor and a pioneering botanical educator.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: genusAuthor
Context triple: [Physocarpus, genusAuthor, Thomas Nuttall]
  • A. hasGenus
    Indicates that one entity belongs to, or is classified under, the biological genus represented by the other entity.
  • B. genusIncludes
    Indicates that a particular genus contains or encompasses the specified subordinate taxonomic entities (such as species or subspecies).
  • C. notableGenus
    Indicates that one entity is a genus that is especially prominent, well-known, or significant in relation to the other entity.
  • D. taxonomicAuthority chosen
    Indicates the entity that formally described, named, or classified another entity in a taxonomic context.
  • E. botanicalAuthorAbbreviation
    Indicates the standardized abbreviated form of a botanist’s name used to cite them as the author of a plant’s scientific name.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69ab4b75cd908190b691ef0d1801acda completed March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdace9f308190964a064859612cd6 completed March 7, 2026, 7:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afb6982974819089d0ef4a59cc4085 completed March 10, 2026, 6:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afb7166d788190ac219fe3c3e164fe completed March 10, 2026, 6:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afb7acf3588190813bde4428dfe5f4 completed March 10, 2026, 6:18 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69abd82586f88190a98f60d3247fe2d3 completed March 7, 2026, 7:47 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:56 p.m.