Triple

T18497775
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Melanthiaceae E451992 entity
Predicate containsTaxon P9413 FINISHED
Object Veratrum
Veratrum is a genus of highly toxic perennial flowering plants known for their tall, leafy stems and use in traditional medicine despite their poisonous alkaloids.
E1327412 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: Veratrum | Statement: [Melanthiaceae, containsTaxon, Veratrum]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Veratrum
Context triple: [Melanthiaceae, containsTaxon, Veratrum]
  • A. Leucocrinum
    Leucocrinum is a small genus of flowering plants in the asparagus order, known for its low-growing, star-shaped white flowers native to western North America.
  • B. Aconitum
    Aconitum is a genus of highly toxic flowering plants, often called monkshood or wolfsbane, known for their hood-shaped blue to purple flowers and historical use as poisons.
  • C. Hyoscyamus
    Hyoscyamus is a small genus of toxic, psychoactive flowering plants commonly known as henbanes, historically used in medicine and witchcraft for their hallucinogenic and sedative properties.
  • D. Colchicum
    Colchicum is a genus of flowering plants, commonly known as autumn crocuses, noted for their crocus-like blooms and production of the toxic alkaloid colchicine.
  • E. Chelidonium
    Chelidonium is a small genus of flowering plants, commonly known as celandines, recognized for their yellow latex and traditional medicinal uses.
  • 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: Veratrum
Triple: [Melanthiaceae, containsTaxon, Veratrum]
Generated description
Veratrum is a genus of highly toxic perennial flowering plants known for their tall, leafy stems and use in traditional medicine despite their poisonous alkaloids.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Veratrum
Target entity description: Veratrum is a genus of highly toxic perennial flowering plants known for their tall, leafy stems and use in traditional medicine despite their poisonous alkaloids.
  • A. Leucocrinum
    Leucocrinum is a small genus of flowering plants in the asparagus order, known for its low-growing, star-shaped white flowers native to western North America.
  • B. Aconitum
    Aconitum is a genus of highly toxic flowering plants, often called monkshood or wolfsbane, known for their hood-shaped blue to purple flowers and historical use as poisons.
  • C. Hyoscyamus
    Hyoscyamus is a small genus of toxic, psychoactive flowering plants commonly known as henbanes, historically used in medicine and witchcraft for their hallucinogenic and sedative properties.
  • D. Colchicum
    Colchicum is a genus of flowering plants, commonly known as autumn crocuses, noted for their crocus-like blooms and production of the toxic alkaloid colchicine.
  • E. Chelidonium
    Chelidonium is a small genus of flowering plants, commonly known as celandines, recognized for their yellow latex and traditional medicinal uses.
  • 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_69d8d3855d50819097fc8561b0299dd9 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e532c15dec8190941e7c7a4cdebb66 completed April 19, 2026, 7:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a047140433481908993cac57195a095 completed May 13, 2026, 12:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a047404e3d48190b216f326042c9584 completed May 13, 2026, 12:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0474a01e088190bfd475c4d2255bf1 completed May 13, 2026, 12:54 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:36 a.m.