Triple

T6235718
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Geological Survey of California E139472 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object James Terry Gardiner
James Terry Gardiner was a 19th-century American geologist and surveyor known for his work on major geological and topographical surveys in the western United States.
E597965 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: James Terry Gardiner | Statement: [Geological Survey of California, employer, James Terry Gardiner]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Terry Gardiner
Context triple: [Geological Survey of California, employer, James Terry Gardiner]
  • A. Roy Gardner
    Roy Gardner was an American economist and game theorist known for his work on strategic behavior, common-pool resources, and the application of game theory to environmental and resource economics.
  • B. William Wellington Cairns
    William Wellington Cairns was a 19th-century British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Queensland, after whom the Australian city of Cairns is named.
  • C. George Daniel Weaver
    George Daniel Weaver, better known as Buck Weaver, was an American third baseman for the Chicago White Sox and one of the players banned from Major League Baseball for life following the 1919 Black Sox scandal.
  • D. James Gardner March
    James Gardner March was an influential American organizational theorist and political scientist known for his work on decision-making, organizational behavior, and the "garbage can" model of organizational choice.
  • E. Dale A. Gardner
    Dale A. Gardner was a U.S. Navy officer and NASA astronaut who flew on two Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s, notably helping to retrieve malfunctioning satellites during STS-51-A.
  • 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: James Terry Gardiner
Triple: [Geological Survey of California, employer, James Terry Gardiner]
Generated description
James Terry Gardiner was a 19th-century American geologist and surveyor known for his work on major geological and topographical surveys in the western United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Terry Gardiner
Target entity description: James Terry Gardiner was a 19th-century American geologist and surveyor known for his work on major geological and topographical surveys in the western United States.
  • A. Roy Gardner
    Roy Gardner was an American economist and game theorist known for his work on strategic behavior, common-pool resources, and the application of game theory to environmental and resource economics.
  • B. William Wellington Cairns
    William Wellington Cairns was a 19th-century British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Queensland, after whom the Australian city of Cairns is named.
  • C. George Daniel Weaver
    George Daniel Weaver, better known as Buck Weaver, was an American third baseman for the Chicago White Sox and one of the players banned from Major League Baseball for life following the 1919 Black Sox scandal.
  • D. James Gardner March
    James Gardner March was an influential American organizational theorist and political scientist known for his work on decision-making, organizational behavior, and the "garbage can" model of organizational choice.
  • E. Dale A. Gardner
    Dale A. Gardner was a U.S. Navy officer and NASA astronaut who flew on two Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s, notably helping to retrieve malfunctioning satellites during STS-51-A.
  • 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_69c008b0e7ac8190808a59573ee646f3 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c062f236608190997e77b41095883f completed March 22, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c66373add88190b5fad625c4284c55 completed March 27, 2026, 11:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6641f712481908215fd281cd8abf7 completed March 27, 2026, 11:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c66494b114819095a29ab6b699c2ad completed March 27, 2026, 11:05 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:23 p.m.