Triple

T6737092
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Wilderness Society E153982 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Robert Sterling Yard
Robert Sterling Yard was an American conservationist and writer who played a key role in the early 20th-century movement to protect wilderness areas in the United States.
 E617395 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: Robert Sterling Yard | Statement: [The Wilderness Society, founder, Robert Sterling Yard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert Sterling Yard
Context triple: [The Wilderness Society, founder, Robert Sterling Yard]
  • A. John Gurney
    John Gurney was a prominent English Quaker banker and member of the influential Gurney family of Norwich.
  • B. Robert Livermore
    Robert Livermore was a 19th-century Californian rancher and early settler whose name was later given to the city of Livermore, California.
  • C. Lewis G. Stevenson
    Lewis G. Stevenson was an American politician and public official from Illinois, known for his role in the prominent Stevenson political family.
  • D. Vernon Shaw
    Vernon Shaw was a Dominican politician who served as the fifth President of the Commonwealth of Dominica from 1998 to 2003.
  • E. Charles Stillman
    Charles Stillman was an American labor leader and educator best known for helping to establish the American Federation of Teachers as a national teachers’ union.
  • 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: Robert Sterling Yard
Triple: [The Wilderness Society, founder, Robert Sterling Yard]
Generated description
Robert Sterling Yard was an American conservationist and writer who played a key role in the early 20th-century movement to protect wilderness areas in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert Sterling Yard
Target entity description: Robert Sterling Yard was an American conservationist and writer who played a key role in the early 20th-century movement to protect wilderness areas in the United States.
  • A. John Gurney
    John Gurney was a prominent English Quaker banker and member of the influential Gurney family of Norwich.
  • B. Robert Livermore
    Robert Livermore was a 19th-century Californian rancher and early settler whose name was later given to the city of Livermore, California.
  • C. Lewis G. Stevenson
    Lewis G. Stevenson was an American politician and public official from Illinois, known for his role in the prominent Stevenson political family.
  • D. Vernon Shaw
    Vernon Shaw was a Dominican politician who served as the fifth President of the Commonwealth of Dominica from 1998 to 2003.
  • E. Charles Stillman
    Charles Stillman was an American labor leader and educator best known for helping to establish the American Federation of Teachers as a national teachers’ union.
  • 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_69c6880d84d8819095d19de2295f26ac completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d1850a288190aa7e647fefbb0ede completed March 27, 2026, 6:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c712a1aa948190b3e191c7be48ac0e completed March 27, 2026, 11:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c713842b9c8190ae31eba0bd449968 completed March 27, 2026, 11:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c71444e9ec8190a68531ed29fd9377 completed March 27, 2026, 11:35 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:10 p.m.