Triple

T8342221
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Charadriidae E195945 entity
Predicate describedBy P264 FINISHED
Object William Elford Leach
William Elford Leach was a British zoologist and marine biologist of the early 19th century known for his influential work in classifying a wide range of animal groups, including birds and crustaceans.
E737004 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: William Elford Leach | Statement: [Charadriidae, describedBy, William Elford Leach]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Elford Leach
Context triple: [Charadriidae, describedBy, William Elford Leach]
  • A. William Leishman
    William Leishman was a British physician and pathologist best known for his work on tropical diseases, including the identification of the parasite causing leishmaniasis.
  • B. Frederick Etchells
    Frederick Etchells was a British artist, architect, and translator best known for his involvement in the early 20th-century avant-garde, particularly the Vorticist movement.
  • C. George Giffard
    George Giffard was a British Army general who held senior command roles during World War II, particularly in the Southeast Asian theatre.
  • D. Archibald Alexander Leach
    Archibald Alexander Leach was the birth name of Cary Grant, the iconic British-American film actor renowned for his debonair charm and roles in classic Hollywood cinema.
  • E. Arthur Whitten Brown
    Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • 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: William Elford Leach
Triple: [Charadriidae, describedBy, William Elford Leach]
Generated description
William Elford Leach was a British zoologist and marine biologist of the early 19th century known for his influential work in classifying a wide range of animal groups, including birds and crustaceans.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Elford Leach
Target entity description: William Elford Leach was a British zoologist and marine biologist of the early 19th century known for his influential work in classifying a wide range of animal groups, including birds and crustaceans.
  • A. William Leishman
    William Leishman was a British physician and pathologist best known for his work on tropical diseases, including the identification of the parasite causing leishmaniasis.
  • B. Frederick Etchells
    Frederick Etchells was a British artist, architect, and translator best known for his involvement in the early 20th-century avant-garde, particularly the Vorticist movement.
  • C. George Giffard
    George Giffard was a British Army general who held senior command roles during World War II, particularly in the Southeast Asian theatre.
  • D. Archibald Alexander Leach
    Archibald Alexander Leach was the birth name of Cary Grant, the iconic British-American film actor renowned for his debonair charm and roles in classic Hollywood cinema.
  • E. Arthur Whitten Brown
    Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • 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_69ca82ecbdc481908a55cad8ca062d88 completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb7fe9efec81908e0c9ded3963bac5 completed March 31, 2026, 8:03 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce394f782881908310d7ca1b7dc36c completed April 2, 2026, 9:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce3ad9a3a88190929a6c6ae7ee58cf completed April 2, 2026, 9:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce3cc54d888190ae86b787afc38f7b completed April 2, 2026, 9:54 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:58 p.m.