Triple

T5794841
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Swartkrans E128483 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object Oldowan stone tools
Oldowan stone tools are some of the earliest known human-made stone implements, characterized by simple flaking techniques used by early hominins for cutting and processing tasks.
E546562 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: Oldowan stone tools | Statement: [Swartkrans, knownFor, Oldowan stone tools]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oldowan stone tools
Context triple: [Swartkrans, knownFor, Oldowan stone tools]
  • A. Stone Age
    The Stone Age is the earliest known period of human prehistory, characterized by the creation and use of stone tools before the advent of metalworking.
  • B. Gravettian
    Gravettian is an Upper Paleolithic archaeological culture in Europe, known for its distinctive stone tools, cave art, and Venus figurines dating roughly from 33,000 to 21,000 years ago.
  • C. Natufian culture
    The Natufian culture was a Late Epipaleolithic Near Eastern society known for its semi-sedentary hunter-gatherer communities that prefigured the development of agriculture and the first permanent villages.
  • D. Krzemionki prehistoric flint mines
    Krzemionki prehistoric flint mines are an extensive Neolithic and early Bronze Age mining complex in Poland, renowned for its exceptionally well-preserved underground galleries and evidence of prehistoric flint extraction and tool production.
  • E. Prehistoric Collection
    The Prehistoric Collection is a major department of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens that showcases artifacts from Greece’s prehistoric civilizations, including Neolithic, Cycladic, and Mycenaean cultures.
  • 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: Oldowan stone tools
Triple: [Swartkrans, knownFor, Oldowan stone tools]
Generated description
Oldowan stone tools are some of the earliest known human-made stone implements, characterized by simple flaking techniques used by early hominins for cutting and processing tasks.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oldowan stone tools
Target entity description: Oldowan stone tools are some of the earliest known human-made stone implements, characterized by simple flaking techniques used by early hominins for cutting and processing tasks.
  • A. Stone Age
    The Stone Age is the earliest known period of human prehistory, characterized by the creation and use of stone tools before the advent of metalworking.
  • B. Gravettian
    Gravettian is an Upper Paleolithic archaeological culture in Europe, known for its distinctive stone tools, cave art, and Venus figurines dating roughly from 33,000 to 21,000 years ago.
  • C. Natufian culture
    The Natufian culture was a Late Epipaleolithic Near Eastern society known for its semi-sedentary hunter-gatherer communities that prefigured the development of agriculture and the first permanent villages.
  • D. Krzemionki prehistoric flint mines
    Krzemionki prehistoric flint mines are an extensive Neolithic and early Bronze Age mining complex in Poland, renowned for its exceptionally well-preserved underground galleries and evidence of prehistoric flint extraction and tool production.
  • E. Prehistoric Collection
    The Prehistoric Collection is a major department of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens that showcases artifacts from Greece’s prehistoric civilizations, including Neolithic, Cycladic, and Mycenaean cultures.
  • 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_69c00845ca68819081a2ce3ecca577f7 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c02a91c7788190936671bf816d3772 completed March 22, 2026, 5:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c098286c1c8190b77cbaeda327dba4 completed March 23, 2026, 1:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c098a0325c81909a1326b94e40ed50 completed March 23, 2026, 1:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c09943deec819085992c4e44050a34 completed March 23, 2026, 1:37 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:51 p.m.