Triple
T8357438
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Whittaker five-kingdom system |
E196714
|
entity |
| Predicate | proposedBy |
P32
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Robert H. Whittaker |
E196715
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Robert H. Whittaker | Statement: [Whittaker five-kingdom system, proposedBy, Robert H. Whittaker]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert H. Whittaker Context triple: [Whittaker five-kingdom system, proposedBy, Robert H. Whittaker]
-
A.
R. H. Whittaker
chosen
R. H. Whittaker was an American ecologist best known for proposing the five-kingdom classification system of life, which significantly reshaped modern biological taxonomy.
-
B.
Richard H. Truly
Richard H. Truly is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy rear admiral who later served as the eighth Administrator of NASA.
-
C.
William L Whittaker
William L. "Red" Whittaker is a pioneering roboticist and Carnegie Mellon University professor known for his groundbreaking work in field robotics and autonomous vehicles.
-
D.
Charles E. Whittaker
Charles E. Whittaker was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 1950s and early 1960s, known for his often moderate and sometimes conflicted positions on key constitutional issues.
-
E.
G. Evelyn Hutchinson
G. Evelyn Hutchinson was a pioneering 20th-century ecologist often called the "father of modern ecology" for his influential work on ecological niches, limnology, and the theoretical foundations of population and community ecology.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca82f08b348190bfb7881944bbff6f |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cb804b57f88190907a4e4e389caf5f |
completed | March 31, 2026, 8:05 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cdc76d49c881909e8e93b8f7d940df |
completed | April 2, 2026, 1:33 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:59 p.m.