Triple

T975768
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Behavior of Organisms E21048 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object Edward L. Thorndike
Edward L. Thorndike was an American psychologist and pioneer in educational psychology and learning theory, best known for his work on animal intelligence and the formulation of the law of effect.
E127054 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: Edward L. Thorndike | Statement: [The Behavior of Organisms, influencedBy, Edward L. Thorndike]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward L. Thorndike
Context triple: [The Behavior of Organisms, influencedBy, Edward L. Thorndike]
  • A. John B. Watson
    John B. Watson was an American psychologist who founded the school of behaviorism, emphasizing the study of observable behavior over introspection.
  • B. Ivan Pavlov
    Ivan Pavlov was a Russian physiologist best known for his pioneering research on classical conditioning, which profoundly shaped the fields of psychology and behaviorism.
  • C. Wilhelm Wundt
    Wilhelm Wundt was a German physician, physiologist, and philosopher widely regarded as the founder of experimental psychology and the first psychological laboratory.
  • D. Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson
    Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson is the daughter of Canadian author Margaret Atwood and her partner, novelist Graeme Gibson.
  • E. Hermann Ebbinghaus
    Hermann Ebbinghaus was a pioneering German psychologist best known for his experimental studies of memory and the formulation of the forgetting curve and spacing effect.
  • 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: Edward L. Thorndike
Triple: [The Behavior of Organisms, influencedBy, Edward L. Thorndike]
Generated description
Edward L. Thorndike was an American psychologist and pioneer in educational psychology and learning theory, best known for his work on animal intelligence and the formulation of the law of effect.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward L. Thorndike
Target entity description: Edward L. Thorndike was an American psychologist and pioneer in educational psychology and learning theory, best known for his work on animal intelligence and the formulation of the law of effect.
  • A. John B. Watson
    John B. Watson was an American psychologist who founded the school of behaviorism, emphasizing the study of observable behavior over introspection.
  • B. Ivan Pavlov
    Ivan Pavlov was a Russian physiologist best known for his pioneering research on classical conditioning, which profoundly shaped the fields of psychology and behaviorism.
  • C. Wilhelm Wundt
    Wilhelm Wundt was a German physician, physiologist, and philosopher widely regarded as the founder of experimental psychology and the first psychological laboratory.
  • D. Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson
    Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson is the daughter of Canadian author Margaret Atwood and her partner, novelist Graeme Gibson.
  • E. Hermann Ebbinghaus
    Hermann Ebbinghaus was a pioneering German psychologist best known for his experimental studies of memory and the formulation of the forgetting curve and spacing effect.
  • 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_69a493c2b62c8190b616351789ec47f8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b46234c88190b2bfc9cafe59d7f7 completed March 1, 2026, 9:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac4c0508348190b761b1cb40fd2ebc completed March 7, 2026, 4:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac4d59d6e48190ae584c5505d583e2 completed March 7, 2026, 4:07 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac4dc518cc8190a8eafd2eef7934d8 completed March 7, 2026, 4:09 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.