Triple

T3502436
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hell Creek Formation E73998 entity
Predicate namedBy P63 FINISHED
Object Barnum Brown
Barnum Brown was an American paleontologist best known for discovering the first documented remains of Tyrannosaurus rex and for his extensive fossil-collecting work in the early 20th century.
E364942 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: Barnum Brown | Statement: [Hell Creek Formation, namedBy, Barnum Brown]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Barnum Brown
Context triple: [Hell Creek Formation, namedBy, Barnum Brown]
  • A. Ernest S. Marsh
    Ernest S. Marsh is a historic steam locomotive that operates as one of the primary trains on the Disneyland Railroad at Disneyland in California.
  • B. Othniel Charles Marsh
    Othniel Charles Marsh was a pioneering 19th-century American paleontologist known for his extensive dinosaur discoveries and his central role in the “Bone Wars” fossil-hunting rivalry.
  • C. Frank Hamilton Cushing
    Frank Hamilton Cushing was a pioneering American anthropologist and ethnologist best known for his immersive fieldwork among the Zuni people in the late 19th century.
  • D. Kurt Akeley
    Kurt Akeley is a pioneering computer graphics engineer and co-founder of Silicon Graphics (SGI), known for his influential work on high-performance 3D graphics hardware and APIs.
  • E. Edward Drinker Cope
    Edward Drinker Cope was a prominent 19th-century American paleontologist and comparative anatomist known for his extensive fossil discoveries and his role in the "Bone Wars" rivalry with Othniel Charles Marsh.
  • 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: Barnum Brown
Triple: [Hell Creek Formation, namedBy, Barnum Brown]
Generated description
Barnum Brown was an American paleontologist best known for discovering the first documented remains of Tyrannosaurus rex and for his extensive fossil-collecting work in the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Barnum Brown
Target entity description: Barnum Brown was an American paleontologist best known for discovering the first documented remains of Tyrannosaurus rex and for his extensive fossil-collecting work in the early 20th century.
  • A. Ernest S. Marsh
    Ernest S. Marsh is a historic steam locomotive that operates as one of the primary trains on the Disneyland Railroad at Disneyland in California.
  • B. Othniel Charles Marsh
    Othniel Charles Marsh was a pioneering 19th-century American paleontologist known for his extensive dinosaur discoveries and his central role in the “Bone Wars” fossil-hunting rivalry.
  • C. Frank Hamilton Cushing
    Frank Hamilton Cushing was a pioneering American anthropologist and ethnologist best known for his immersive fieldwork among the Zuni people in the late 19th century.
  • D. Kurt Akeley
    Kurt Akeley is a pioneering computer graphics engineer and co-founder of Silicon Graphics (SGI), known for his influential work on high-performance 3D graphics hardware and APIs.
  • E. Edward Drinker Cope
    Edward Drinker Cope was a prominent 19th-century American paleontologist and comparative anatomist known for his extensive fossil discoveries and his role in the "Bone Wars" rivalry with Othniel Charles Marsh.
  • 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_69ad85ce7a9c81909ddc5cf0cb67a6e3 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbbef47988190b5b3fe2e452b9ac8 completed March 8, 2026, 6:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b37e6aea8c81908dbe4748dd8a9d9c completed March 13, 2026, 3:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b37f52d9188190a37d06ff220ffdb3 completed March 13, 2026, 3:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b37fbec2ec81909228716c70ffa2bd completed March 13, 2026, 3:08 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:18 p.m.