Triple

T5309150
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Environmental Defense Fund E120177 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Charles F. Wurster
Charles F. Wurster is an American environmental scientist and activist best known as a co-founder of the Environmental Defense Fund and an early leader in efforts to regulate DDT and other harmful pollutants.
 E511279 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: Charles F. Wurster | Statement: [Environmental Defense Fund, founder, Charles F. Wurster]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Charles F. Wurster
Context triple: [Environmental Defense Fund, founder, Charles F. Wurster]
  • A. W. Burton Wescott
    W. Burton Wescott was an early film industry figure best known as one of the founders of the pioneering color motion picture company Technicolor.
  • B. Harold A. Wheeler
    Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
  • C. George A. Tuck
    George A. Tuck was a Canadian businessman known for being one of the original owners involved in early professional basketball in Toronto.
  • D. Walter L. Huber
    Walter L. Huber was a prominent American civil engineer and researcher recognized for his significant contributions to the field, commemorated by the ASCE’s Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize.
  • E. Charles E. Clark
    Charles E. Clark was a prominent American jurist and legal scholar who served as dean of Yale Law School and as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
  • 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: Charles F. Wurster
Triple: [Environmental Defense Fund, founder, Charles F. Wurster]
Generated description
Charles F. Wurster is an American environmental scientist and activist best known as a co-founder of the Environmental Defense Fund and an early leader in efforts to regulate DDT and other harmful pollutants.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Charles F. Wurster
Target entity description: Charles F. Wurster is an American environmental scientist and activist best known as a co-founder of the Environmental Defense Fund and an early leader in efforts to regulate DDT and other harmful pollutants.
  • A. W. Burton Wescott
    W. Burton Wescott was an early film industry figure best known as one of the founders of the pioneering color motion picture company Technicolor.
  • B. Harold A. Wheeler
    Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
  • C. George A. Tuck
    George A. Tuck was a Canadian businessman known for being one of the original owners involved in early professional basketball in Toronto.
  • D. Walter L. Huber
    Walter L. Huber was a prominent American civil engineer and researcher recognized for his significant contributions to the field, commemorated by the ASCE’s Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize.
  • E. Charles E. Clark
    Charles E. Clark was a prominent American jurist and legal scholar who served as dean of Yale Law School and as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
  • 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_69bd44704be88190acdb2ac481b0ff55 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd8532c26c819084f5b8de542cd309 completed March 20, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf18869a188190a0588783244c9964 completed March 21, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf193b28f48190a05ffe35496fe2a7 completed March 21, 2026, 10:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf198795d48190a554d83758c6b781 completed March 21, 2026, 10:19 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:53 p.m.