Triple

T3254833
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Stray Feathers E68270 entity
Predicate hasContributor P4244 FINISHED
Object William Thomas Blanford
William Thomas Blanford was a 19th-century English geologist and naturalist known for his extensive work in India, including significant contributions to zoology and ornithology.
 E344817 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 Thomas Blanford | Statement: [Stray Feathers, hasContributor, William Thomas Blanford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Thomas Blanford
Context triple: [Stray Feathers, hasContributor, William Thomas Blanford]
  • A. J. W. Barlow
    J. W. Barlow was an American settler and community founder credited with establishing the city of Richland Center in Wisconsin.
  • B. James Dwight Dana
    James Dwight Dana was a prominent 19th-century American geologist, mineralogist, and zoologist known for his influential works on volcanic activity, mountain-building, and systematic mineral classification.
  • C. Sylvanus G. Morley
    Sylvanus G. Morley was an American archaeologist and epigrapher renowned for his pioneering research on Maya civilization and hieroglyphic writing.
  • D. Grove Karl Gilbert
    Grove Karl Gilbert was a pioneering American geologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned for his foundational work in geomorphology and studies of the western United States.
  • E. 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.
  • 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 Thomas Blanford
Triple: [Stray Feathers, hasContributor, William Thomas Blanford]
Generated description
William Thomas Blanford was a 19th-century English geologist and naturalist known for his extensive work in India, including significant contributions to zoology and ornithology.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Thomas Blanford
Target entity description: William Thomas Blanford was a 19th-century English geologist and naturalist known for his extensive work in India, including significant contributions to zoology and ornithology.
  • A. J. W. Barlow
    J. W. Barlow was an American settler and community founder credited with establishing the city of Richland Center in Wisconsin.
  • B. James Dwight Dana
    James Dwight Dana was a prominent 19th-century American geologist, mineralogist, and zoologist known for his influential works on volcanic activity, mountain-building, and systematic mineral classification.
  • C. Sylvanus G. Morley
    Sylvanus G. Morley was an American archaeologist and epigrapher renowned for his pioneering research on Maya civilization and hieroglyphic writing.
  • D. Grove Karl Gilbert
    Grove Karl Gilbert was a pioneering American geologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned for his foundational work in geomorphology and studies of the western United States.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69ad858f74408190bcbd07f967cd7bd0 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adaf65c9388190a0d74d6365ce631e completed March 8, 2026, 5:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b2e8330720819091548d7f9652003a completed March 12, 2026, 4:22 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b2e8d04e508190916455fa2f4702b5 completed March 12, 2026, 4:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b2ed0f862c81909d9a279bea549339 completed March 12, 2026, 4:42 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:09 p.m.