Triple

T3990340
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Delta smelt E86972 entity
Predicate describedBy P264 FINISHED
Object Carl Leavitt Hubbs
Carl Leavitt Hubbs was an influential American ichthyologist known for his extensive work on fish taxonomy and systematics in the 20th century.
E403684 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: Carl Leavitt Hubbs | Statement: [Delta smelt, describedBy, Carl Leavitt Hubbs]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Carl Leavitt Hubbs
Context triple: [Delta smelt, describedBy, Carl Leavitt Hubbs]
  • A. William Shepard Wetmore
    William Shepard Wetmore was a 19th-century American China trade merchant and prominent Newport, Rhode Island businessman and philanthropist.
  • B. Lyman Cornelius Smith
    Lyman Cornelius Smith was an American industrialist and entrepreneur best known for his role in the typewriter and firearms industries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Frank Marshall Davis
    Frank Marshall Davis was an African American poet, journalist, and political activist whose work explored race, class, and social justice in mid-20th-century America.
  • D. Thomas Hunter
    Thomas Hunter was an Irish-born American educator and reformer best known as the founding president of what became Hunter College in New York City.
  • E. Maurice Ewing
    Maurice Ewing was a pioneering American geophysicist and oceanographer whose work in marine seismology and underwater acoustics fundamentally advanced the understanding of the Earth's crust and ocean basins.
  • 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: Carl Leavitt Hubbs
Triple: [Delta smelt, describedBy, Carl Leavitt Hubbs]
Generated description
Carl Leavitt Hubbs was an influential American ichthyologist known for his extensive work on fish taxonomy and systematics in the 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Carl Leavitt Hubbs
Target entity description: Carl Leavitt Hubbs was an influential American ichthyologist known for his extensive work on fish taxonomy and systematics in the 20th century.
  • A. William Shepard Wetmore
    William Shepard Wetmore was a 19th-century American China trade merchant and prominent Newport, Rhode Island businessman and philanthropist.
  • B. Lyman Cornelius Smith
    Lyman Cornelius Smith was an American industrialist and entrepreneur best known for his role in the typewriter and firearms industries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Frank Marshall Davis
    Frank Marshall Davis was an African American poet, journalist, and political activist whose work explored race, class, and social justice in mid-20th-century America.
  • D. Thomas Hunter
    Thomas Hunter was an Irish-born American educator and reformer best known as the founding president of what became Hunter College in New York City.
  • E. Maurice Ewing
    Maurice Ewing was a pioneering American geophysicist and oceanographer whose work in marine seismology and underwater acoustics fundamentally advanced the understanding of the Earth's crust and ocean basins.
  • 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_69aed93fd9d4819085d3b2137d2346cb completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aefa01bf3c8190a6fb3bba65186ae6 completed March 9, 2026, 4:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b54035e92c81909dc2be18719b062c completed March 14, 2026, 11:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b541c668188190b5579e113149ddf5 completed March 14, 2026, 11:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b54266cf908190848a51e20739441f completed March 14, 2026, 11:11 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:33 p.m.