Triple

T9128514
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Snowball Earth glaciations E219023 entity
Predicate popularizedBy P4586 FINISHED
Object Paul F. Hoffman
Paul F. Hoffman is a Canadian geologist renowned for developing and championing the Snowball Earth hypothesis, which proposes that Earth was once almost entirely covered in ice.
 E849074 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: Paul F. Hoffman | Statement: [Snowball Earth glaciations, popularizedBy, Paul F. Hoffman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Paul F. Hoffman
Context triple: [Snowball Earth glaciations, popularizedBy, Paul F. Hoffman]
  • A. Paul G. Hoffman
    Paul G. Hoffman was an American automobile executive and public administrator best known for leading post–World War II European recovery efforts and later serving in prominent roles at the United Nations.
  • B. Paul Hoffman
    Paul Hoffman is a common name shared by several notable individuals, including authors, journalists, and public figures across various fields.
  • C. Thomas F. Hofmann
    Thomas F. Hofmann is a German food chemist and academic leader who serves as president of the Technical University of Munich.
  • D. Lawrence Hauben
    Lawrence Hauben was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed film adaptation of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," for which he received an Academy Award nomination.
  • E. Peter T. Grauer
    Peter T. Grauer is an American business executive best known as the longtime chairman of Bloomberg L.P.
  • 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: Paul F. Hoffman
Triple: [Snowball Earth glaciations, popularizedBy, Paul F. Hoffman]
Generated description
Paul F. Hoffman is a Canadian geologist renowned for developing and championing the Snowball Earth hypothesis, which proposes that Earth was once almost entirely covered in ice.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Paul F. Hoffman
Target entity description: Paul F. Hoffman is a Canadian geologist renowned for developing and championing the Snowball Earth hypothesis, which proposes that Earth was once almost entirely covered in ice.
  • A. Paul G. Hoffman
    Paul G. Hoffman was an American automobile executive and public administrator best known for leading post–World War II European recovery efforts and later serving in prominent roles at the United Nations.
  • B. Paul Hoffman
    Paul Hoffman is a common name shared by several notable individuals, including authors, journalists, and public figures across various fields.
  • C. Thomas F. Hofmann
    Thomas F. Hofmann is a German food chemist and academic leader who serves as president of the Technical University of Munich.
  • D. Lawrence Hauben
    Lawrence Hauben was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed film adaptation of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," for which he received an Academy Award nomination.
  • E. Peter T. Grauer
    Peter T. Grauer is an American business executive best known as the longtime chairman of Bloomberg L.P.
  • 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_69ca83debfc0819095800583e97ab10f completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cca8cc85b081908ee80db0e3b7df15 completed April 1, 2026, 5:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d58af368788190a4b020cc46cc30d5 completed April 7, 2026, 10:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d58d72b5d88190989416f030cdde73 completed April 7, 2026, 11:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d58e0f929481908023a47e9188a35d completed April 7, 2026, 11:06 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:18 p.m.