Triple

T6235722
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Geological Survey of California E139472 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object F. B. Meek
F. B. Meek was a 19th-century American paleontologist known for his extensive work on fossil invertebrates and contributions to early geological surveys in the United States.
E825171 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: F. B. Meek | Statement: [Geological Survey of California, employer, F. B. Meek]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: F. B. Meek
Context triple: [Geological Survey of California, employer, F. B. Meek]
  • A. H. A. Fagan
    H. A. Fagan was a South African playwright, poet, and politician associated with the Afrikaans literary movement known as the Dertigers.
  • B. G. W. Bailey
    G. W. Bailey is an American character actor best known for his gruff, comedic roles in film and television, including prominent parts in the Police Academy series and the crime drama The Closer.
  • C. R. R. Grovey
    R. R. Grovey was the African American plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Grovey v. Townsend, which challenged racially discriminatory primary election practices in Texas.
  • D. Walter R. Farmer
    Walter R. Farmer was an American Army officer and museum professional best known for leading efforts to protect and repatriate European artworks looted during World War II as part of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program.
  • E. J. A. L. Waddell
    J. A. L. Waddell was a prominent American civil engineer and bridge designer renowned for his innovative movable bridge designs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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: F. B. Meek
Triple: [Geological Survey of California, employer, F. B. Meek]
Generated description
F. B. Meek was a 19th-century American paleontologist known for his extensive work on fossil invertebrates and contributions to early geological surveys in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: F. B. Meek
Target entity description: F. B. Meek was a 19th-century American paleontologist known for his extensive work on fossil invertebrates and contributions to early geological surveys in the United States.
  • A. H. A. Fagan
    H. A. Fagan was a South African playwright, poet, and politician associated with the Afrikaans literary movement known as the Dertigers.
  • B. G. W. Bailey
    G. W. Bailey is an American character actor best known for his gruff, comedic roles in film and television, including prominent parts in the Police Academy series and the crime drama The Closer.
  • C. R. R. Grovey
    R. R. Grovey was the African American plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Grovey v. Townsend, which challenged racially discriminatory primary election practices in Texas.
  • D. Walter R. Farmer
    Walter R. Farmer was an American Army officer and museum professional best known for leading efforts to protect and repatriate European artworks looted during World War II as part of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program.
  • E. J. A. L. Waddell
    J. A. L. Waddell was a prominent American civil engineer and bridge designer renowned for his innovative movable bridge designs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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_69d1d583f75c819083cb0dcdf265d735 completed April 5, 2026, 3:22 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1d6ccad6881909ca9e0c579297758 completed April 5, 2026, 3:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1d74e7a148190a9470745bfd7ad42 completed April 5, 2026, 3:30 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:23 p.m.