Triple

T5370771
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Anaximander E108842 entity
Predicate sourceOfInformation P2296 FINISHED
Object Theophrastus
Theophrastus was an ancient Greek philosopher, botanist, and successor to Aristotle who is often called the "father of botany" for his influential works on plants and natural science.
E101160 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: Theophrastus | Statement: [Anaximander, sourceOfInformation, Theophrastus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theophrastus
Context triple: [Anaximander, sourceOfInformation, Theophrastus]
  • A. Theophrastus
    Theophrastus was an ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle’s successor as head of the Lyceum, renowned for his influential works in logic, ethics, and especially botany.
  • B. Eudemus of Rhodes
    Eudemus of Rhodes was an ancient Greek philosopher and historian of science, best known as a prominent Peripatetic who systematically documented the early development of mathematics and astronomy.
  • C. Xenocrates
    Xenocrates was a prominent ancient Greek philosopher who led Plato’s Academy and significantly developed Platonic and early Academic thought.
  • D. Philo of Larissa
    Philo of Larissa was a Hellenistic philosopher and prominent Academic Skeptic who led Plato’s Academy in its later period and influenced Roman intellectuals such as Cicero.
  • E. Heraclides Ponticus
    Heraclides Ponticus was a 4th-century BCE Greek philosopher and astronomer known for proposing that the Earth rotates on its axis and for early heliocentric ideas.
  • 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: Theophrastus
Triple: [Anaximander, sourceOfInformation, Theophrastus]
Generated description
Theophrastus was an ancient Greek philosopher, botanist, and successor to Aristotle who is often called the "father of botany" for his influential works on plants and natural science.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theophrastus
Target entity description: Theophrastus was an ancient Greek philosopher, botanist, and successor to Aristotle who is often called the "father of botany" for his influential works on plants and natural science.
  • A. Theophrastus chosen
    Theophrastus was an ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle’s successor as head of the Lyceum, renowned for his influential works in logic, ethics, and especially botany.
  • B. Eudemus of Rhodes
    Eudemus of Rhodes was an ancient Greek philosopher and historian of science, best known as a prominent Peripatetic who systematically documented the early development of mathematics and astronomy.
  • C. Xenocrates
    Xenocrates was a prominent ancient Greek philosopher who led Plato’s Academy and significantly developed Platonic and early Academic thought.
  • D. Philo of Larissa
    Philo of Larissa was a Hellenistic philosopher and prominent Academic Skeptic who led Plato’s Academy in its later period and influenced Roman intellectuals such as Cicero.
  • E. Heraclides Ponticus
    Heraclides Ponticus was a 4th-century BCE Greek philosopher and astronomer known for proposing that the Earth rotates on its axis and for early heliocentric ideas.
  • F. None of above.

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_69bd440c77948190aad2a5f39b7b80f5 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd8688b7488190a57baedd52a11b1a completed March 20, 2026, 5:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf334ac2548190ad672943ac138373 completed March 22, 2026, 12:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf33cc90b48190ae84e51763d25e16 completed March 22, 2026, 12:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf340c4b708190abb9be455f6dacb2 completed March 22, 2026, 12:13 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:02 p.m.