Triple

T9636120
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ursinus College E232936 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object Robert Yerkes
Robert Yerkes was an American psychologist and primatologist best known for pioneering intelligence testing and comparative psychology, including organizing World War I Army mental tests.
E811552 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: Robert Yerkes | Statement: [Ursinus College, hasNotableAlumnus, Robert Yerkes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Yerkes
Context triple: [Ursinus College, hasNotableAlumnus, Robert Yerkes]
  • A. James McKeen Cattell
    James McKeen Cattell was an influential American psychologist and early psychometrician who helped establish experimental psychology and mental testing in the United States.
  • B. Alexander G. Cattell
    Alexander G. Cattell was a 19th-century American politician who served as a United States Senator from New Jersey.
  • C. Jacques Cattell
    Jacques Cattell was an American musicologist and publisher best known for founding and editing the reference work "The Musician’s Handbook" and contributing to music education and scholarship.
  • D. Eugene W. Hilgard
    Eugene W. Hilgard was a prominent 19th-century soil scientist and geologist known as a pioneer of modern soil science in the United States.
  • E. Psyche Cattell
    Psyche Cattell was an American psychologist known for her work in child intelligence testing and the development of the Cattell Infant Intelligence Scale.
  • 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: Robert Yerkes
Triple: [Ursinus College, hasNotableAlumnus, Robert Yerkes]
Generated description
Robert Yerkes was an American psychologist and primatologist best known for pioneering intelligence testing and comparative psychology, including organizing World War I Army mental tests.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Yerkes
Target entity description: Robert Yerkes was an American psychologist and primatologist best known for pioneering intelligence testing and comparative psychology, including organizing World War I Army mental tests.
  • A. James McKeen Cattell
    James McKeen Cattell was an influential American psychologist and early psychometrician who helped establish experimental psychology and mental testing in the United States.
  • B. Alexander G. Cattell
    Alexander G. Cattell was a 19th-century American politician who served as a United States Senator from New Jersey.
  • C. Jacques Cattell
    Jacques Cattell was an American musicologist and publisher best known for founding and editing the reference work "The Musician’s Handbook" and contributing to music education and scholarship.
  • D. Eugene W. Hilgard
    Eugene W. Hilgard was a prominent 19th-century soil scientist and geologist known as a pioneer of modern soil science in the United States.
  • E. Psyche Cattell
    Psyche Cattell was an American psychologist known for her work in child intelligence testing and the development of the Cattell Infant Intelligence Scale.
  • 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_69ca848940cc8190b97cec654cb3bb4a completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9b2ba0308190931993c0321f6051 completed April 1, 2026, 10:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d18237e2608190a3e7d45231a35efd completed April 4, 2026, 9:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d18333b5c4819090152a2da5e51e87 completed April 4, 2026, 9:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d183c8da2c8190a655c49994b94698 completed April 4, 2026, 9:34 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:11 p.m.