Triple

T5631819
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rhynia E147849 entity
Predicate firstDescribedBy P7386 FINISHED
Object William Henry Lang
William Henry Lang was a British botanist and paleobotanist known for his pioneering studies of early land plants, including the Devonian fossil plant Rhynia.
E542959 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: William Henry Lang | Statement: [Rhynia, firstDescribedBy, William Henry Lang]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Lang
Context triple: [Rhynia, firstDescribedBy, William Henry Lang]
  • A. George Ambrose Lloyd
    George Ambrose Lloyd was a British colonial administrator and politician who served as Governor of Bombay and later as Governor of Bengal during the early 20th century.
  • B. George Newbold Lawrence
    George Newbold Lawrence was a 19th-century American ornithologist known for describing numerous bird species and contributing extensively to North American avian taxonomy.
  • C. William Leishman
    William Leishman was a British physician and pathologist best known for his work on tropical diseases, including the identification of the parasite causing leishmaniasis.
  • D. William Lamberton
    William Lamberton was a prominent early 14th-century Scottish bishop and staunch supporter of Scottish independence, closely associated with figures like Robert the Bruce.
  • E. Arthur Whitten Brown
    Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • 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: William Henry Lang
Triple: [Rhynia, firstDescribedBy, William Henry Lang]
Generated description
William Henry Lang was a British botanist and paleobotanist known for his pioneering studies of early land plants, including the Devonian fossil plant Rhynia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Lang
Target entity description: William Henry Lang was a British botanist and paleobotanist known for his pioneering studies of early land plants, including the Devonian fossil plant Rhynia.
  • A. George Ambrose Lloyd
    George Ambrose Lloyd was a British colonial administrator and politician who served as Governor of Bombay and later as Governor of Bengal during the early 20th century.
  • B. George Newbold Lawrence
    George Newbold Lawrence was a 19th-century American ornithologist known for describing numerous bird species and contributing extensively to North American avian taxonomy.
  • C. William Leishman
    William Leishman was a British physician and pathologist best known for his work on tropical diseases, including the identification of the parasite causing leishmaniasis.
  • D. William Lamberton
    William Lamberton was a prominent early 14th-century Scottish bishop and staunch supporter of Scottish independence, closely associated with figures like Robert the Bruce.
  • E. Arthur Whitten Brown
    Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • 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_69c00907bc8881909ed760d3ed73ef35 completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0225e8e848190a9ccd48fc0d74e5c completed March 22, 2026, 5:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c07da656f8819083fa9fc63f2ec4a5 completed March 22, 2026, 11:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c08bb824988190902e422b7c468c8f completed March 23, 2026, 12:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c08c6d1a788190acb7651a1f144d9d completed March 23, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:40 p.m.