Triple

T3382250
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bureau of American Ethnology E71212 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object William Henry Holmes
William Henry Holmes was an American archaeologist, anthropologist, and scientific illustrator known for his influential work on Native American cultures and his leadership in major U.S. scientific institutions.
E352727 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 Henry Holmes | Statement: [Bureau of American Ethnology, director, William Henry Holmes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Holmes
Context triple: [Bureau of American Ethnology, director, William Henry Holmes]
  • A. John Henry Patterson
    John Henry Patterson was an American industrialist and business pioneer best known for building the National Cash Register Company (NCR) into a major corporation and for innovating modern sales and management techniques.
  • B. Benjamin Franklin Loomis
    Benjamin Franklin Loomis was an early 20th-century photographer and conservationist known for documenting and helping to preserve the Lassen Peak region in California.
  • C. John Wellborn Root
    John Wellborn Root was a pioneering American architect of the late 19th century, best known for his influential role in developing early skyscraper design and shaping the Chicago School of architecture.
  • D. Alfred Borden
    Alfred Borden is a brilliant but secretive Victorian-era stage magician whose obsessive rivalry and extreme dedication to his craft drive the central mystery and tragedy of "The Prestige."
  • E. George A. Soper
    George A. Soper was an American sanitary engineer and public health official, best known for his work in epidemiology and his role in founding the American Cancer Society.
  • 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 Henry Holmes
Triple: [Bureau of American Ethnology, director, William Henry Holmes]
Generated description
William Henry Holmes was an American archaeologist, anthropologist, and scientific illustrator known for his influential work on Native American cultures and his leadership in major U.S. scientific institutions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Holmes
Target entity description: William Henry Holmes was an American archaeologist, anthropologist, and scientific illustrator known for his influential work on Native American cultures and his leadership in major U.S. scientific institutions.
  • A. John Henry Patterson
    John Henry Patterson was an American industrialist and business pioneer best known for building the National Cash Register Company (NCR) into a major corporation and for innovating modern sales and management techniques.
  • B. Benjamin Franklin Loomis
    Benjamin Franklin Loomis was an early 20th-century photographer and conservationist known for documenting and helping to preserve the Lassen Peak region in California.
  • C. John Wellborn Root
    John Wellborn Root was a pioneering American architect of the late 19th century, best known for his influential role in developing early skyscraper design and shaping the Chicago School of architecture.
  • D. Alfred Borden
    Alfred Borden is a brilliant but secretive Victorian-era stage magician whose obsessive rivalry and extreme dedication to his craft drive the central mystery and tragedy of "The Prestige."
  • E. George A. Soper
    George A. Soper was an American sanitary engineer and public health official, best known for his work in epidemiology and his role in founding the American Cancer Society.
  • 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_69ad85a8fd9c819095ecedf838d2bf1b completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb5e9af608190bfb228ef99a87bb7 completed March 8, 2026, 5:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b33452d79081909bf6955289e0dece completed March 12, 2026, 9:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b334f75e708190aed8b388c9ea55d2 completed March 12, 2026, 9:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b3359ab56881908e247ba54c7dd6c7 completed March 12, 2026, 9:52 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:14 p.m.