Triple

T7748074
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edward Drinker Cope E175681 entity
Predicate describedTaxa P20721 FINISHED
Object Edaphosaurus
Edaphosaurus was a large, sail-backed, herbivorous synapsid from the Late Carboniferous to Early Permian period, notable for its distinctive spiny neural sail and importance in early amniote evolution.
 E687930 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: Edaphosaurus | Statement: [Edward Drinker Cope, describedTaxa, Edaphosaurus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Edaphosaurus
Context triple: [Edward Drinker Cope, describedTaxa, Edaphosaurus]
  • A. Dimetrodon
    Dimetrodon is an extinct sail-backed synapsid from the Early Permian period, often mistaken for a dinosaur but more closely related to mammals.
  • B. Othnielosaurus
    Othnielosaurus is a small, bipedal ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of North America, known for its lightly built body and herbivorous diet.
  • C. Futalognkosaurus
    Futalognkosaurus is a gigantic Late Cretaceous titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from Patagonia, known from exceptionally complete fossil remains that make it one of the best-understood giant dinosaurs.
  • D. Camarasaurus
    Camarasaurus was a large, long-necked herbivorous sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period of North America.
  • E. Daspletosaurus
    Daspletosaurus was a large, carnivorous tyrannosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America, known as a powerful apex predator with a massive skull and robust teeth.
  • 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: Edaphosaurus
Triple: [Edward Drinker Cope, describedTaxa, Edaphosaurus]
Generated description
Edaphosaurus was a large, sail-backed, herbivorous synapsid from the Late Carboniferous to Early Permian period, notable for its distinctive spiny neural sail and importance in early amniote evolution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Edaphosaurus
Target entity description: Edaphosaurus was a large, sail-backed, herbivorous synapsid from the Late Carboniferous to Early Permian period, notable for its distinctive spiny neural sail and importance in early amniote evolution.
  • A. Dimetrodon
    Dimetrodon is an extinct sail-backed synapsid from the Early Permian period, often mistaken for a dinosaur but more closely related to mammals.
  • B. Othnielosaurus
    Othnielosaurus is a small, bipedal ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of North America, known for its lightly built body and herbivorous diet.
  • C. Futalognkosaurus
    Futalognkosaurus is a gigantic Late Cretaceous titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from Patagonia, known from exceptionally complete fossil remains that make it one of the best-understood giant dinosaurs.
  • D. Camarasaurus
    Camarasaurus was a large, long-necked herbivorous sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period of North America.
  • E. Daspletosaurus
    Daspletosaurus was a large, carnivorous tyrannosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America, known as a powerful apex predator with a massive skull and robust teeth.
  • 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_69c69960b3588190a53aa590d31d9544 completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c703affb6c8190adf4723dc1139edf completed March 27, 2026, 10:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8c7c89e4c81909196638c159605b8 completed March 29, 2026, 6:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8c87bca908190a44e839824c23e95 completed March 29, 2026, 6:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8c8e5e9f081908288b38ea25e81d2 completed March 29, 2026, 6:38 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 4:08 p.m.