Triple

T7507485
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bates E177426 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object George Latimer Bates
George Latimer Bates was an American naturalist and ornithologist known for his extensive fieldwork and studies of the birds and natural history of West Africa, particularly Cameroon.
E776841 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: George Latimer Bates | Statement: [Bates, hasNotableBearer, George Latimer Bates]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Latimer Bates
Context triple: [Bates, hasNotableBearer, George Latimer Bates]
  • A. George Davenport
    George Davenport was a 19th-century American fur trader and early settler whose influence on the region led to the city of Davenport, Iowa being named in his honor.
  • B. Robert Woodley Brown
    Robert Woodley Brown was an artist associated with the Cullercoats artist colony, a noted 19th-century community of painters on the northeast coast of England.
  • C. Charles H. Mason
    Charles H. Mason was an early American politician who served as the first Secretary of Washington Territory in the mid-19th century.
  • D. George Washington Taylor
    George Washington Taylor was an American merchant best known for co-founding the historic department store chain Lord & Taylor.
  • E. George T. Brown
    George T. Brown was an American businessman best known as a founder of the Brown & Williamson tobacco company, which became one of the major U.S. cigarette manufacturers.
  • 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: George Latimer Bates
Triple: [Bates, hasNotableBearer, George Latimer Bates]
Generated description
George Latimer Bates was an American naturalist and ornithologist known for his extensive fieldwork and studies of the birds and natural history of West Africa, particularly Cameroon.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Latimer Bates
Target entity description: George Latimer Bates was an American naturalist and ornithologist known for his extensive fieldwork and studies of the birds and natural history of West Africa, particularly Cameroon.
  • A. George Davenport
    George Davenport was a 19th-century American fur trader and early settler whose influence on the region led to the city of Davenport, Iowa being named in his honor.
  • B. Robert Woodley Brown
    Robert Woodley Brown was an artist associated with the Cullercoats artist colony, a noted 19th-century community of painters on the northeast coast of England.
  • C. Charles H. Mason
    Charles H. Mason was an early American politician who served as the first Secretary of Washington Territory in the mid-19th century.
  • D. George Washington Taylor
    George Washington Taylor was an American merchant best known for co-founding the historic department store chain Lord & Taylor.
  • E. George T. Brown
    George T. Brown was an American businessman best known as a founder of the Brown & Williamson tobacco company, which became one of the major U.S. cigarette manufacturers.
  • 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_69c69f276b108190af2cc790b6554544 completed March 27, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f5b76a288190bb3608a5e3bfa212 completed March 27, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d016a0027c81908d3454447fa461b2 completed April 3, 2026, 7:36 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d019059e8481909a696575366aa0b6 completed April 3, 2026, 7:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d019a2736c8190880c8f3786cf353b completed April 3, 2026, 7:48 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:45 p.m.