Triple
T9287191
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Protoceratidae |
E223421
|
entity |
| Predicate | taxonAuthor |
P7386
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Othniel Charles Marsh |
E309495
|
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: Othniel Charles Marsh | Statement: [Protoceratidae, taxonAuthor, Othniel Charles Marsh]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Othniel Charles Marsh Context triple: [Protoceratidae, taxonAuthor, Othniel Charles Marsh]
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A.
Othniel Charles Marsh
chosen
Othniel Charles Marsh was a pioneering 19th-century American paleontologist known for his extensive dinosaur discoveries and his central role in the “Bone Wars” fossil-hunting rivalry.
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B.
Edward Drinker Cope
Edward Drinker Cope was a prominent 19th-century American paleontologist and comparative anatomist known for his extensive fossil discoveries and his role in the "Bone Wars" rivalry with Othniel Charles Marsh.
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C.
Ernest Baird
Ernest Baird is a Northern Irish unionist politician best known for his role in founding and leading the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party during the Troubles.
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D.
Barnum Brown
Barnum Brown was an American paleontologist best known for discovering the first documented remains of Tyrannosaurus rex and for his extensive fossil-collecting work in the early 20th century.
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E.
William Shepard Wetmore
William Shepard Wetmore was a 19th-century American China trade merchant and prominent Newport, Rhode Island businessman and philanthropist.
- 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_69ca8422ddf881908a3f8f876c9f53aa |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cd0861425c81909e3ab11e19cc2f65 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 11:58 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d0b22753e481908bf19c7da13556d6 |
completed | April 4, 2026, 6:39 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:35 p.m.