Triple

T4934403
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Julian Steward E110776 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object Robert Lowie E112695 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Robert Lowie | Statement: [Julian Steward, influencedBy, Robert Lowie]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert Lowie
Context triple: [Julian Steward, influencedBy, Robert Lowie]
  • A. Robert H. Lowie chosen
    Robert H. Lowie was a prominent early 20th-century American anthropologist known for his influential studies of Native American cultures and his contributions to cultural anthropology theory.
  • B. Ralph Linton
    Ralph Linton was an American anthropologist known for his work on culture and personality and for helping popularize key concepts such as status and role in social anthropology.
  • C. Julian Steward
    Julian Steward was an American anthropologist best known for developing the theory of cultural ecology, which examined how cultures adapt to their environments.
  • D. Lewis H. Morgan
    Lewis H. Morgan was a pioneering 19th-century American anthropologist and social theorist whose studies of kinship and social evolution profoundly shaped later Marxist and anthropological thought.
  • E. Alfred L. Kroeber
    Alfred L. Kroeber was a pioneering American anthropologist known for his influential work on Native American cultures, linguistic anthropology, and the development of cultural anthropology in the United States.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69bd4415190c8190817bee7ec9f9f944 elicitation completed
NER batch_69bd7066ed548190a76a9559f90e3869 ner completed
NED1 batch_69beb0daa53481908c705ca3698ab777 ned_source_triple completed
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:30 p.m.