Triple

T19316999
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Robert H. MacArthur Award E483124 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object James H. Brown
James H. Brown is a prominent American ecologist known for his influential work in macroecology, biogeography, and metabolic scaling theory.
E1371344 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: James H. Brown | Statement: [Robert H. MacArthur Award, notableRecipient, James H. Brown]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James H. Brown
Context triple: [Robert H. MacArthur Award, notableRecipient, James H. Brown]
  • A. James R. Brown
    James R. Brown is a music producer and engineer known for his work on the Foo Fighters’ documentary album project "Sonic Highways."
  • B. Willard Jessie Brown
    Willard Jessie Brown was an American Negro League and Major League Baseball outfielder known for his powerful hitting and as one of the early Black players to briefly break into MLB.
  • C. W. Earl Brown
    W. Earl Brown is an American character actor and screenwriter known for his roles in projects such as Deadwood, Scream, and There's Something About Mary.
  • D. James A. Johnson
    James A. Johnson is an individual known primarily for his involvement as a named party in the U.S. Supreme Court case Miller v. Johnson, which addressed racial gerrymandering and redistricting.
  • E. James A. Johnson
    James A. Johnson was the husband of pioneering NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, supporting her career during the civil rights era and the space race.
  • 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: James H. Brown
Triple: [Robert H. MacArthur Award, notableRecipient, James H. Brown]
Generated description
James H. Brown is a prominent American ecologist known for his influential work in macroecology, biogeography, and metabolic scaling theory.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James H. Brown
Target entity description: James H. Brown is a prominent American ecologist known for his influential work in macroecology, biogeography, and metabolic scaling theory.
  • A. James R. Brown
    James R. Brown is a music producer and engineer known for his work on the Foo Fighters’ documentary album project "Sonic Highways."
  • B. Willard Jessie Brown
    Willard Jessie Brown was an American Negro League and Major League Baseball outfielder known for his powerful hitting and as one of the early Black players to briefly break into MLB.
  • C. W. Earl Brown
    W. Earl Brown is an American character actor and screenwriter known for his roles in projects such as Deadwood, Scream, and There's Something About Mary.
  • D. James A. Johnson
    James A. Johnson is an individual known primarily for his involvement as a named party in the U.S. Supreme Court case Miller v. Johnson, which addressed racial gerrymandering and redistricting.
  • E. James A. Johnson
    James A. Johnson was the husband of pioneering NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, supporting her career during the civil rights era and the space race.
  • 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_69d8e8d04d5c8190baa816986f2b1d1e completed April 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e60d843640819089ff3738aae29eb1 completed April 20, 2026, 11:27 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a071bd8090881908fed92a3b6b02f6d completed May 15, 2026, 1:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a071f9990fc819084b0ea1fdfe0ac51 completed May 15, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07200bae248190bc95a13445d5a15e completed May 15, 2026, 1:30 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:32 p.m.