Triple

T2936451
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon E79280 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière
Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière is an influential multi-volume 18th-century natural history work by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon that sought to systematically describe the natural world and shaped the development of biology and natural science in Europe.
E311536 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: Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière | Statement: [Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, notableWork, Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière
Context triple: [Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, notableWork, Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière]
  • A. Nouveau dictionnaire d’histoire naturelle
    Nouveau dictionnaire d’histoire naturelle is a comprehensive early 19th-century French natural history reference work, particularly significant for its detailed descriptions and classifications of birds.
  • B. Handbuch der Naturgeschichte
    Handbuch der Naturgeschichte is an influential 18th-century natural history textbook by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach that helped shape early modern zoology and anthropology.
  • C. Le Règne Animal
    Le Règne Animal is a foundational 19th-century zoological work by Georges Cuvier that systematically classifies the animal kingdom and helped establish modern comparative anatomy.
  • D. Systema Naturae
    Systema Naturae is Carl Linnaeus’s landmark 18th-century work that established the modern hierarchical system for classifying and naming organisms.
  • E. De animalibus
    De animalibus is a comprehensive 13th-century zoological treatise by Albert the Great that systematically compiles and expands upon Aristotelian and medieval knowledge about animals.
  • 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: Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière
Triple: [Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, notableWork, Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière]
Generated description
Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière is an influential multi-volume 18th-century natural history work by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon that sought to systematically describe the natural world and shaped the development of biology and natural science in Europe.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière
Target entity description: Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière is an influential multi-volume 18th-century natural history work by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon that sought to systematically describe the natural world and shaped the development of biology and natural science in Europe.
  • A. Nouveau dictionnaire d’histoire naturelle
    Nouveau dictionnaire d’histoire naturelle is a comprehensive early 19th-century French natural history reference work, particularly significant for its detailed descriptions and classifications of birds.
  • B. Handbuch der Naturgeschichte
    Handbuch der Naturgeschichte is an influential 18th-century natural history textbook by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach that helped shape early modern zoology and anthropology.
  • C. Le Règne Animal
    Le Règne Animal is a foundational 19th-century zoological work by Georges Cuvier that systematically classifies the animal kingdom and helped establish modern comparative anatomy.
  • D. Systema Naturae
    Systema Naturae is Carl Linnaeus’s landmark 18th-century work that established the modern hierarchical system for classifying and naming organisms.
  • E. De animalibus
    De animalibus is a comprehensive 13th-century zoological treatise by Albert the Great that systematically compiles and expands upon Aristotelian and medieval knowledge about animals.
  • 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_69ad8b0fbab081908f6a61567c045d8d completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad983df5e08190939cd8acf8ad5b55 completed March 8, 2026, 3:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b0867edf3481909c5fa9d02c5f11b3 completed March 10, 2026, 9 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b0d66e4c188190a6f41593884080e8 completed March 11, 2026, 2:41 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b0d6abef8c81908d593c39e3824c77 completed March 11, 2026, 2:42 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:56 p.m.