Triple

T8916887
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Niffer E212314 entity
Predicate excavatedBy P7650 FINISHED
Object American expedition to Nippur
The American expedition to Nippur was a late 19th-century archaeological project, largely sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania, that conducted some of the first major scientific excavations in Mesopotamia and helped reveal the ancient Sumerian city of Nippur.
E766883 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: American expedition to Nippur | Statement: [Niffer, excavatedBy, American expedition to Nippur]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American expedition to Nippur
Context triple: [Niffer, excavatedBy, American expedition to Nippur]
  • A. expedition of Nakhla
    The expedition of Nakhla was a pivotal early Muslim raid against a Quraysh caravan near Mecca that intensified tensions and helped precipitate larger battles in the early Islamic period.
  • B. Hierakonpolis Expedition
    The Hierakonpolis Expedition is an ongoing archaeological project dedicated to excavating and studying the ancient Egyptian city of Hierakonpolis, a key center of Predynastic and early dynastic Egypt.
  • C. Sapri expedition
    The Sapri expedition was an 1857 failed insurrectionary landing in southern Italy led by Carlo Pisacane, aimed at sparking a popular uprising against the Bourbon monarchy of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
  • D. Nimrod Expedition
    The Nimrod Expedition was Ernest Shackleton’s 1907–1909 British Antarctic expedition that made record-setting southern and polar achievements and significantly advanced scientific and geographic knowledge of Antarctica.
  • E. Granma expedition
    The Granma expedition was the 1956 seaborne journey in which Fidel Castro and his followers sailed from Mexico to Cuba to launch the guerrilla war that ignited the Cuban Revolution.
  • 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: American expedition to Nippur
Triple: [Niffer, excavatedBy, American expedition to Nippur]
Generated description
The American expedition to Nippur was a late 19th-century archaeological project, largely sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania, that conducted some of the first major scientific excavations in Mesopotamia and helped reveal the ancient Sumerian city of Nippur.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American expedition to Nippur
Target entity description: The American expedition to Nippur was a late 19th-century archaeological project, largely sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania, that conducted some of the first major scientific excavations in Mesopotamia and helped reveal the ancient Sumerian city of Nippur.
  • A. expedition of Nakhla
    The expedition of Nakhla was a pivotal early Muslim raid against a Quraysh caravan near Mecca that intensified tensions and helped precipitate larger battles in the early Islamic period.
  • B. Hierakonpolis Expedition
    The Hierakonpolis Expedition is an ongoing archaeological project dedicated to excavating and studying the ancient Egyptian city of Hierakonpolis, a key center of Predynastic and early dynastic Egypt.
  • C. Sapri expedition
    The Sapri expedition was an 1857 failed insurrectionary landing in southern Italy led by Carlo Pisacane, aimed at sparking a popular uprising against the Bourbon monarchy of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
  • D. Nimrod Expedition
    The Nimrod Expedition was Ernest Shackleton’s 1907–1909 British Antarctic expedition that made record-setting southern and polar achievements and significantly advanced scientific and geographic knowledge of Antarctica.
  • E. Granma expedition
    The Granma expedition was the 1956 seaborne journey in which Fidel Castro and his followers sailed from Mexico to Cuba to launch the guerrilla war that ignited the Cuban Revolution.
  • 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_69ca8393b1808190bd4336787ffa2c40 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc6610cd48819090a184c5f9465626 completed April 1, 2026, 12:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfba4567a88190855b964bc6e3ac6f completed April 3, 2026, 1:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfbb0db6848190a375196a021d1bb9 completed April 3, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfbf7f551c819089830d16fe55599e completed April 3, 2026, 1:24 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:56 p.m.