Triple

T9768284
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mount Watkins E237053 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Carleton E. Watkins
Carleton E. Watkins was a pioneering 19th-century American photographer renowned for his large-format landscape images of the American West, especially Yosemite.
E819325 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: Carleton E. Watkins | Statement: [Mount Watkins, namedAfter, Carleton E. Watkins]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Carleton E. Watkins
Context triple: [Mount Watkins, namedAfter, Carleton E. Watkins]
  • A. Timothy H. O'Sullivan
    Timothy H. O'Sullivan was a pioneering 19th-century American photographer best known for his stark Civil War battlefield images and later geological survey photographs of the American West.
  • B. Alexander Gardner
    Alexander Gardner was a 19th-century Scottish-American photographer best known for his iconic Civil War images and portraits of figures such as Abraham Lincoln.
  • C. William Henry Jackson
    William Henry Jackson was an early 19th-century Athens, Georgia resident and professor who is traditionally credited with deeding ownership of a beloved local oak tree to the tree itself, creating the legend of the "Tree That Owns Itself."
  • D. Albert Bierstadt
    Albert Bierstadt was a 19th-century American painter renowned for his grand, dramatic landscapes of the American West, associated with the Hudson River School and Luminism.
  • E. Edward Bierstadt
    Edward Bierstadt was a 19th-century American photographer and engraver known for his work in early photographic printing and for being part of the prominent Bierstadt artistic family.
  • 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: Carleton E. Watkins
Triple: [Mount Watkins, namedAfter, Carleton E. Watkins]
Generated description
Carleton E. Watkins was a pioneering 19th-century American photographer renowned for his large-format landscape images of the American West, especially Yosemite.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Carleton E. Watkins
Target entity description: Carleton E. Watkins was a pioneering 19th-century American photographer renowned for his large-format landscape images of the American West, especially Yosemite.
  • A. Timothy H. O'Sullivan
    Timothy H. O'Sullivan was a pioneering 19th-century American photographer best known for his stark Civil War battlefield images and later geological survey photographs of the American West.
  • B. Alexander Gardner
    Alexander Gardner was a 19th-century Scottish-American photographer best known for his iconic Civil War images and portraits of figures such as Abraham Lincoln.
  • C. William Henry Jackson
    William Henry Jackson was an early 19th-century Athens, Georgia resident and professor who is traditionally credited with deeding ownership of a beloved local oak tree to the tree itself, creating the legend of the "Tree That Owns Itself."
  • D. Albert Bierstadt
    Albert Bierstadt was a 19th-century American painter renowned for his grand, dramatic landscapes of the American West, associated with the Hudson River School and Luminism.
  • E. Edward Bierstadt
    Edward Bierstadt was a 19th-century American photographer and engraver known for his work in early photographic printing and for being part of the prominent Bierstadt artistic family.
  • 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_69ca84d831b8819090322686b47887ce completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cda0a2da648190836916a45d2998d7 completed April 1, 2026, 10:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1bd05f2588190ab413d26342aa70f completed April 5, 2026, 1:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1bd901e4881908a39be828eb7f21b completed April 5, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1bdfe40f4819096b1d0442f4ee181 completed April 5, 2026, 1:42 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:25 p.m.