Triple

T6235721
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Geological Survey of California E139472 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object William More Gabb
William More Gabb was a 19th-century American paleontologist and geologist known for his influential work on Cretaceous and Tertiary fossils of North America and the Caribbean.
E577949 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 More Gabb | Statement: [Geological Survey of California, employer, William More Gabb]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William More Gabb
Context triple: [Geological Survey of California, employer, William More Gabb]
  • A. William Gisborne
    William Gisborne was a 19th-century New Zealand politician and public administrator who served as Colonial Secretary and played a key role in the development of the colony’s government.
  • B. Arthur Bell Nicholls
    Arthur Bell Nicholls was an Irish clergyman best known as the husband and later literary executor of novelist Charlotte Brontë.
  • C. James Guillaume
    James Guillaume was a prominent Swiss anarchist, educator, and close associate of Mikhail Bakunin who played a leading role in the anti-authoritarian wing of the First International.
  • D. William Ball
    William Ball is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across various fields, including politics, the arts, and sports.
  • E. William Orlamond
    William Orlamond was a Danish-born American character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • 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 More Gabb
Triple: [Geological Survey of California, employer, William More Gabb]
Generated description
William More Gabb was a 19th-century American paleontologist and geologist known for his influential work on Cretaceous and Tertiary fossils of North America and the Caribbean.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William More Gabb
Target entity description: William More Gabb was a 19th-century American paleontologist and geologist known for his influential work on Cretaceous and Tertiary fossils of North America and the Caribbean.
  • A. William Gisborne
    William Gisborne was a 19th-century New Zealand politician and public administrator who served as Colonial Secretary and played a key role in the development of the colony’s government.
  • B. Arthur Bell Nicholls
    Arthur Bell Nicholls was an Irish clergyman best known as the husband and later literary executor of novelist Charlotte Brontë.
  • C. James Guillaume
    James Guillaume was a prominent Swiss anarchist, educator, and close associate of Mikhail Bakunin who played a leading role in the anti-authoritarian wing of the First International.
  • D. William Ball
    William Ball is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across various fields, including politics, the arts, and sports.
  • E. William Orlamond
    William Orlamond was a Danish-born American character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • 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_69c20df60e488190933b7fa068e96cc4 completed March 24, 2026, 4:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c2138258c88190a953345a34ba70ed completed March 24, 2026, 4:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c21434d18c81909b5921db80090e8e completed March 24, 2026, 4:33 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:23 p.m.