Triple
T5516098
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | C. Hart Merriam |
E144686
|
entity |
| Predicate | sameAs |
P6530
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Clinton Hart Merriam |
E15740
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Clinton Hart Merriam | Statement: [C. Hart Merriam, sameAs, Clinton Hart Merriam]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clinton Hart Merriam Context triple: [C. Hart Merriam, sameAs, Clinton Hart Merriam]
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A.
Clinton Hart Merriam
chosen
Clinton Hart Merriam was an American zoologist and ethnographer known for his pioneering work in North American mammalogy and biogeography.
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B.
Matthew Meigs
Matthew Meigs was an American educator and Presbyterian minister best known for establishing The Hill School, a prominent preparatory boarding school in Pennsylvania.
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C.
William Temple Hornaday
William Temple Hornaday was an American zoologist and conservationist known for pioneering wildlife protection efforts and helping to save the American bison from extinction.
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D.
John Galen Howard
John Galen Howard was an influential American architect best known for shaping the early 20th-century architectural landscape of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
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E.
William J. Schieffelin Jr.
William J. Schieffelin Jr. was an American businessman and philanthropist notable for his leadership in public health and charitable organizations, including early cancer control efforts.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69c008f77ff88190b0cd50ca207295d1 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c01f5d1d188190b3a222a9ecf2a0e6 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 4:57 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c07d567cb48190839f340041f2300b |
completed | March 22, 2026, 11:37 p.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:33 p.m.