Triple

T9523865
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Okapia johnstoni E229710 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Harry Johnston
Harry Johnston was a British explorer, colonial administrator, and naturalist known for his work in central Africa and for bringing the okapi to the attention of Western science.
E806983 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: Harry Johnston | Statement: [Okapia johnstoni, namedAfter, Harry Johnston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry Johnston
Context triple: [Okapia johnstoni, namedAfter, Harry Johnston]
  • A. Guy Johnston
    Guy Johnston is a British cellist acclaimed for winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition and for his international solo and chamber music career.
  • B. Frank Johnston
    Frank Johnston was a Canadian landscape painter best known as one of the original members of the Group of Seven, a pioneering modern art movement in early 20th-century Canada.
  • C. Francis Johnston
    Francis Johnston was a prominent early 19th-century Irish architect known for his influential public and ecclesiastical buildings in Dublin and across Ireland.
  • D. James Johnston
    James Johnston was a militia officer who played a leadership role on the Patriot side during the American Revolutionary War, notably at the Battle of Kings Mountain.
  • E. John Johnston
    John Johnston was a 19th-century distiller credited with establishing the original operation that evolved into the renowned Lagavulin whisky distillery on Islay, Scotland.
  • 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: Harry Johnston
Triple: [Okapia johnstoni, namedAfter, Harry Johnston]
Generated description
Harry Johnston was a British explorer, colonial administrator, and naturalist known for his work in central Africa and for bringing the okapi to the attention of Western science.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry Johnston
Target entity description: Harry Johnston was a British explorer, colonial administrator, and naturalist known for his work in central Africa and for bringing the okapi to the attention of Western science.
  • A. Guy Johnston
    Guy Johnston is a British cellist acclaimed for winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition and for his international solo and chamber music career.
  • B. Frank Johnston
    Frank Johnston was a Canadian landscape painter best known as one of the original members of the Group of Seven, a pioneering modern art movement in early 20th-century Canada.
  • C. Francis Johnston
    Francis Johnston was a prominent early 19th-century Irish architect known for his influential public and ecclesiastical buildings in Dublin and across Ireland.
  • D. James Johnston
    James Johnston was a militia officer who played a leadership role on the Patriot side during the American Revolutionary War, notably at the Battle of Kings Mountain.
  • E. John Johnston
    John Johnston was a 19th-century distiller credited with establishing the original operation that evolved into the renowned Lagavulin whisky distillery on Islay, Scotland.
  • 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_69ca847870a881909d8d751a7d29da39 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9898e0b48190a3e3f0f1616d5055 completed April 1, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1526fbad8819099dfae3b7226898b completed April 4, 2026, 6:03 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d154f32b28819084cfe2482e89cab0 completed April 4, 2026, 6:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1556753dc81908fbfdc7b863b1026 completed April 4, 2026, 6:16 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:59 p.m.