Triple

T15888943
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Balaenoptera E385264 entity
Predicate namedBy P63 FINISHED
Object Bernard Germain de Lacépède
Bernard Germain de Lacépède was an 18th–19th century French naturalist and zoologist known for his influential work in classifying fishes and marine mammals.
E1183370 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: Bernard Germain de Lacépède | Statement: [Balaenoptera, namedBy, Bernard Germain de Lacépède]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bernard Germain de Lacépède
Context triple: [Balaenoptera, namedBy, Bernard Germain de Lacépède]
  • A. Pierre André Latreille
    Pierre André Latreille was a prominent French entomologist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for his foundational work in insect classification and taxonomy.
  • B. Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre
    Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre was an 18th-century French naturalist and zoologist known for his contributions to early taxonomic works, including sections of the Encyclopédie Méthodique.
  • C. Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
    Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a pioneering French naturalist and zoologist known for his work on comparative anatomy and his early ideas about the unity of organic composition and species transformism.
  • D. Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
    Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a 19th-century French zoologist and anatomist known for his pioneering work in teratology and comparative anatomy, and for continuing and expanding his father Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire’s research traditions.
  • E. Georges Cuvier
    Georges Cuvier was a pioneering French naturalist and zoologist regarded as the founder of comparative anatomy and paleontology, known for establishing extinction as a scientific fact.
  • 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: Bernard Germain de Lacépède
Triple: [Balaenoptera, namedBy, Bernard Germain de Lacépède]
Generated description
Bernard Germain de Lacépède was an 18th–19th century French naturalist and zoologist known for his influential work in classifying fishes and marine mammals.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bernard Germain de Lacépède
Target entity description: Bernard Germain de Lacépède was an 18th–19th century French naturalist and zoologist known for his influential work in classifying fishes and marine mammals.
  • A. Pierre André Latreille
    Pierre André Latreille was a prominent French entomologist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for his foundational work in insect classification and taxonomy.
  • B. Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre
    Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre was an 18th-century French naturalist and zoologist known for his contributions to early taxonomic works, including sections of the Encyclopédie Méthodique.
  • C. Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
    Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a pioneering French naturalist and zoologist known for his work on comparative anatomy and his early ideas about the unity of organic composition and species transformism.
  • D. Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
    Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a 19th-century French zoologist and anatomist known for his pioneering work in teratology and comparative anatomy, and for continuing and expanding his father Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire’s research traditions.
  • E. Georges Cuvier
    Georges Cuvier was a pioneering French naturalist and zoologist regarded as the founder of comparative anatomy and paleontology, known for establishing extinction as a scientific fact.
  • 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_69d86da5b800819083a31be937d738b0 completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e1561c3d008190a892f091a2f874cf completed April 16, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffb04598e0819094274868941195b9 completed May 9, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffb1570324819086dfd14bab516811 completed May 9, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffb1eedaf481908d70e3517fbd5492 completed May 9, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:51 a.m.