Triple

T3382251
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bureau of American Ethnology E71212 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object J. Walter Fewkes
J. Walter Fewkes was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering studies of Native American cultures, particularly the Hopi and other Pueblo peoples, and for his influential work in early ethnographic field recording.
 E352728 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: J. Walter Fewkes | Statement: [Bureau of American Ethnology, director, J. Walter Fewkes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: J. Walter Fewkes
Context triple: [Bureau of American Ethnology, director, J. Walter Fewkes]
  • A. Sylvanus G. Morley
    Sylvanus G. Morley was an American archaeologist and epigrapher renowned for his pioneering research on Maya civilization and hieroglyphic writing.
  • B. Alfred Marston Tozzer
    Alfred Marston Tozzer was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering work on Mayan civilization and his long association with Harvard University.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Theodore Gill
    Theodore Gill was a 19th-century American ichthyologist and zoologist known for his extensive work in fish classification and taxonomy.
  • E. George E. Merrick
    George E. Merrick was an American real estate developer and city planner best known for creating the planned community of Coral Gables, Florida.
  • 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: J. Walter Fewkes
Triple: [Bureau of American Ethnology, director, J. Walter Fewkes]
Generated description
J. Walter Fewkes was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering studies of Native American cultures, particularly the Hopi and other Pueblo peoples, and for his influential work in early ethnographic field recording.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: J. Walter Fewkes
Target entity description: J. Walter Fewkes was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering studies of Native American cultures, particularly the Hopi and other Pueblo peoples, and for his influential work in early ethnographic field recording.
  • A. Sylvanus G. Morley
    Sylvanus G. Morley was an American archaeologist and epigrapher renowned for his pioneering research on Maya civilization and hieroglyphic writing.
  • B. Alfred Marston Tozzer
    Alfred Marston Tozzer was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering work on Mayan civilization and his long association with Harvard University.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Theodore Gill
    Theodore Gill was a 19th-century American ichthyologist and zoologist known for his extensive work in fish classification and taxonomy.
  • E. George E. Merrick
    George E. Merrick was an American real estate developer and city planner best known for creating the planned community of Coral Gables, Florida.
  • 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.