Triple

T19816929
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Karl Kroeber E476081 entity
Predicate coAuthor P398 FINISHED
Object Clifton Kroeber
Clifton Kroeber was an American historian and scholar known for his work on Native American history and environmental history, often collaborating with his brother Karl Kroeber.
E1398539 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: Clifton Kroeber | Statement: [Karl Kroeber, coAuthor, Clifton Kroeber]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clifton Kroeber
Context triple: [Karl Kroeber, coAuthor, Clifton Kroeber]
  • A. Alfred L. Kroeber
    Alfred L. Kroeber was a pioneering American anthropologist known for his influential work on Native American cultures, linguistic anthropology, and the development of cultural anthropology in the United States.
  • B. Karl Kroeber
    Karl Kroeber was an American literary scholar and critic known for his work in Romantic literature, Native American storytelling, and ecological literary studies.
  • C. Frank G. Speck
    Frank G. Speck was an American anthropologist and ethnologist known for his extensive fieldwork and documentation of Native American cultures and languages in the eastern United States.
  • D. Conrad J. Sauer
    Conrad J. Sauer was an American pharmacist and entrepreneur best known for founding The C.F. Sauer Company, a major producer of flavoring extracts and spices.
  • E. Theodora Kroeber
    Theodora Kroeber was an American writer and anthropologist best known for her works on Native Californian cultures, including the influential book "Ishi in Two Worlds."
  • 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: Clifton Kroeber
Triple: [Karl Kroeber, coAuthor, Clifton Kroeber]
Generated description
Clifton Kroeber was an American historian and scholar known for his work on Native American history and environmental history, often collaborating with his brother Karl Kroeber.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clifton Kroeber
Target entity description: Clifton Kroeber was an American historian and scholar known for his work on Native American history and environmental history, often collaborating with his brother Karl Kroeber.
  • A. Alfred L. Kroeber
    Alfred L. Kroeber was a pioneering American anthropologist known for his influential work on Native American cultures, linguistic anthropology, and the development of cultural anthropology in the United States.
  • B. Karl Kroeber
    Karl Kroeber was an American literary scholar and critic known for his work in Romantic literature, Native American storytelling, and ecological literary studies.
  • C. Frank G. Speck
    Frank G. Speck was an American anthropologist and ethnologist known for his extensive fieldwork and documentation of Native American cultures and languages in the eastern United States.
  • D. Conrad J. Sauer
    Conrad J. Sauer was an American pharmacist and entrepreneur best known for founding The C.F. Sauer Company, a major producer of flavoring extracts and spices.
  • E. Theodora Kroeber
    Theodora Kroeber was an American writer and anthropologist best known for her works on Native Californian cultures, including the influential book "Ishi in Two Worlds."
  • 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_69d8e51bc4208190a1c57d8c5d1b15e4 completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e654f9c5b08190987237f5144c3b37 completed April 20, 2026, 4:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07d42ffe7c8190b04c2ad6ea82438a completed May 16, 2026, 2:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07d4e943b081909f98c72683d62e62 completed May 16, 2026, 2:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07d5bc8e748190a4f97e6b23e56edd completed May 16, 2026, 2:26 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:50 p.m.