Triple

T6869709
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Huxley Memorial Medal E158508 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Marshall Sahlins
Marshall Sahlins was a prominent American cultural anthropologist known for his influential work on kinship, exchange, and the critique of economic and evolutionary theories in anthropology.
E627515 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: Marshall Sahlins | Statement: [Huxley Memorial Medal, notableRecipient, Marshall Sahlins]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marshall Sahlins
Context triple: [Huxley Memorial Medal, notableRecipient, Marshall Sahlins]
  • A. Clifford Geertz
    Clifford Geertz was an influential American anthropologist known for his interpretive approach to culture and his concept of "thick description" in the study of symbols and meaning.
  • B. Kirkpatrick Durham
    Kirkpatrick Durham is a village and civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, historically associated with the parish of Kirkpatrick.
  • C. Raymond Firth
    Raymond Firth was a prominent New Zealand-born social anthropologist best known for his influential work on economic anthropology and his studies of Tikopia society.
  • D. Robert Redfield
    Robert Redfield is an American virologist and public health official who served as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 2018 to 2021.
  • E. Julian Steward
    Julian Steward was an American anthropologist best known for developing the theory of cultural ecology, which examined how cultures adapt to their environments.
  • 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: Marshall Sahlins
Triple: [Huxley Memorial Medal, notableRecipient, Marshall Sahlins]
Generated description
Marshall Sahlins was a prominent American cultural anthropologist known for his influential work on kinship, exchange, and the critique of economic and evolutionary theories in anthropology.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marshall Sahlins
Target entity description: Marshall Sahlins was a prominent American cultural anthropologist known for his influential work on kinship, exchange, and the critique of economic and evolutionary theories in anthropology.
  • A. Clifford Geertz
    Clifford Geertz was an influential American anthropologist known for his interpretive approach to culture and his concept of "thick description" in the study of symbols and meaning.
  • B. Kirkpatrick Durham
    Kirkpatrick Durham is a village and civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, historically associated with the parish of Kirkpatrick.
  • C. Raymond Firth
    Raymond Firth was a prominent New Zealand-born social anthropologist best known for his influential work on economic anthropology and his studies of Tikopia society.
  • D. Robert Redfield
    Robert Redfield is an American virologist and public health official who served as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 2018 to 2021.
  • E. Julian Steward
    Julian Steward was an American anthropologist best known for developing the theory of cultural ecology, which examined how cultures adapt to their environments.
  • 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_69c68831e3648190a643c328122e4d43 completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d8a916a88190b81551731dff2898 completed March 27, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c748c0689081908d37d1530ed0f6a0 completed March 28, 2026, 3:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c749741dd08190b268303a12c17b66 completed March 28, 2026, 3:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c74a1935b88190a9bed6e73f730459 completed March 28, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:22 p.m.