Triple

T16532488
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lamanai E401600 entity
Predicate excavatedBy P7650 FINISHED
Object David M. Pendergast
David M. Pendergast is an archaeologist best known for his extensive excavations and research at the ancient Maya site of Lamanai in Belize.
E1312261 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: David M. Pendergast | Statement: [Lamanai, excavatedBy, David M. Pendergast]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David M. Pendergast
Context triple: [Lamanai, excavatedBy, David M. Pendergast]
  • A. John A. Peters
    John A. Peters was a prominent American politician and jurist from Maine who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and as Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in the 19th century.
  • B. Norman Coburn
    Norman Coburn is an Australian-based actor best known for his long-running role as Donald Fisher on the television soap opera "Home and Away."
  • C. Charles W. Brady
    Charles W. Brady was an American financial executive best known as the founder and longtime leader of global investment management firm Invesco Ltd.
  • D. William G. McGowan
    William G. McGowan was an American businessman best known for transforming MCI into a major telecommunications competitor to AT&T and helping to deregulate the U.S. long-distance phone industry.
  • E. Henry E. Brady
    Henry E. Brady is an American political scientist known for his influential work on political behavior, methodology, and democratic participation.
  • 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: David M. Pendergast
Triple: [Lamanai, excavatedBy, David M. Pendergast]
Generated description
David M. Pendergast is an archaeologist best known for his extensive excavations and research at the ancient Maya site of Lamanai in Belize.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David M. Pendergast
Target entity description: David M. Pendergast is an archaeologist best known for his extensive excavations and research at the ancient Maya site of Lamanai in Belize.
  • A. John A. Peters
    John A. Peters was a prominent American politician and jurist from Maine who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and as Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in the 19th century.
  • B. Norman Coburn
    Norman Coburn is an Australian-based actor best known for his long-running role as Donald Fisher on the television soap opera "Home and Away."
  • C. Charles W. Brady
    Charles W. Brady was an American financial executive best known as the founder and longtime leader of global investment management firm Invesco Ltd.
  • D. William G. McGowan
    William G. McGowan was an American businessman best known for transforming MCI into a major telecommunications competitor to AT&T and helping to deregulate the U.S. long-distance phone industry.
  • E. Henry E. Brady
    Henry E. Brady is an American political scientist known for his influential work on political behavior, methodology, and democratic participation.
  • 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_69d883838abc8190bc79cb2d41733ce2 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e32ed97b0881909de106418aca8180 completed April 18, 2026, 7:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a039ef5147081908c7cfce314e120b1 completed May 12, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a039fb57d608190a0310a4e2c83852a completed May 12, 2026, 9:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03a07a59f88190a7ddd5b612d1575a completed May 12, 2026, 9:49 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:15 a.m.