Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle E157444 entity
Predicate hasAuthorAbbreviationInBotany P30327 FINISHED
Object A.DC.
A.DC. is the standard botanical author abbreviation for the Swiss botanist Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, known for his work in plant taxonomy and phytogeography.
E231042 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: A.DC. | Statement: [Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, hasAuthorAbbreviationInBotany, A.DC.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A.DC.
Context triple: [Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, hasAuthorAbbreviationInBotany, A.DC.]
  • A. DC.
    DC. is the standard botanical author abbreviation for Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, a prominent Swiss botanist known for his influential work in plant taxonomy.
  • B. US-DC
    US-DC is the ISO 3166-2 code representing the District of Columbia, the federal district containing the capital city of the United States, Washington, D.C.
  • C. DC3
    DC3 is a public community college in Dodge City, Kansas, offering two-year academic and technical programs.
  • D. DCU
    DCU is a modern public university in Dublin, Ireland, known for its focus on innovation, research, and industry-oriented education.
  • E. DCU
    DCU is the common abbreviation for D.C. United, a professional Major League Soccer club based in Washington, D.C.
  • 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: A.DC.
Triple: [Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, hasAuthorAbbreviationInBotany, A.DC.]
Generated description
A.DC. is the standard botanical author abbreviation for the Swiss botanist Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, known for his work in plant taxonomy and phytogeography.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A.DC.
Target entity description: A.DC. is the standard botanical author abbreviation for the Swiss botanist Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, known for his work in plant taxonomy and phytogeography.
  • A. DC. chosen
    DC. is the standard botanical author abbreviation for Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, a prominent Swiss botanist known for his influential work in plant taxonomy.
  • B. US-DC
    US-DC is the ISO 3166-2 code representing the District of Columbia, the federal district containing the capital city of the United States, Washington, D.C.
  • C. DC3
    DC3 is a public community college in Dodge City, Kansas, offering two-year academic and technical programs.
  • D. DCU
    DCU is a modern public university in Dublin, Ireland, known for its focus on innovation, research, and industry-oriented education.
  • E. DCU
    DCU is the common abbreviation for D.C. United, a professional Major League Soccer club based in Washington, D.C.
  • F. None of above.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: hasAuthorAbbreviationInBotany
Context triple: [Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, hasAuthorAbbreviationInBotany, A.DC.]
  • A. botanicalAuthorAbbreviation chosen
    Indicates the standardized abbreviated form of a botanist’s name used to cite them as the author of a plant’s scientific name.
  • B. authorAbbreviation
    Indicates that one entity is the standardized abbreviated form of an author's name used in citations or references for another entity.
  • C. taxonomicAuthority
    Indicates the entity that formally described, named, or classified another entity in a taxonomic context.
  • D. hasAuthorAlias
    Indicates that an entity (such as a person or author record) is known by an alternative name or pseudonym used as an author.
  • E. hasNameAbbreviation
    Indicates that an entity is associated with a shortened or abbreviated form of its full name.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69c6882c53608190b99aebef079b23bd completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d67a9ff88190b0d86331b3ea06aa completed March 27, 2026, 7:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c723ffce448190ac8edbaaa1517972 completed March 28, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c724b7b31081909c2bab4a3ba6e9f9 completed March 28, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7253b94f081909e7cee870a12af6b completed March 28, 2026, 12:47 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69c6d09f90648190bc0a462c7d59de1b completed March 27, 2026, 6:46 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:19 p.m.