Triple

T19874359
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pearl S. Buck E477601 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object John Lossing Buck
John Lossing Buck was an American agricultural economist and missionary known for his influential rural economic surveys in China during the early 20th century.
E1400472 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: John Lossing Buck | Statement: [Pearl S. Buck, spouse, John Lossing Buck]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Lossing Buck
Context triple: [Pearl S. Buck, spouse, John Lossing Buck]
  • A. George Bent
    George Bent was a 19th-century Cheyenne-American man known for his role as a cultural intermediary, soldier, and historian of the Cheyenne people and the American West.
  • B. John R. Swanton
    John R. Swanton was an American anthropologist and ethnologist known for his influential research on Native American cultures, languages, and folklore.
  • C. Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter
    Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter was an American philanthropist and arts patron whose support and legacy are commemorated by the naming of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.
  • D. W. H. Dall
    W. H. Dall was a prominent 19th-century American naturalist, malacologist, and explorer known for his extensive work on the fauna and geology of Alaska and the North Pacific.
  • E. William Henry Jackson
    William Henry Jackson was an early 19th-century Athens, Georgia resident and professor who is traditionally credited with deeding ownership of a beloved local oak tree to the tree itself, creating the legend of the "Tree That Owns Itself."
  • 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: John Lossing Buck
Triple: [Pearl S. Buck, spouse, John Lossing Buck]
Generated description
John Lossing Buck was an American agricultural economist and missionary known for his influential rural economic surveys in China during the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Lossing Buck
Target entity description: John Lossing Buck was an American agricultural economist and missionary known for his influential rural economic surveys in China during the early 20th century.
  • A. George Bent
    George Bent was a 19th-century Cheyenne-American man known for his role as a cultural intermediary, soldier, and historian of the Cheyenne people and the American West.
  • B. John R. Swanton
    John R. Swanton was an American anthropologist and ethnologist known for his influential research on Native American cultures, languages, and folklore.
  • C. Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter
    Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter was an American philanthropist and arts patron whose support and legacy are commemorated by the naming of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.
  • D. W. H. Dall
    W. H. Dall was a prominent 19th-century American naturalist, malacologist, and explorer known for his extensive work on the fauna and geology of Alaska and the North Pacific.
  • E. William Henry Jackson
    William Henry Jackson was an early 19th-century Athens, Georgia resident and professor who is traditionally credited with deeding ownership of a beloved local oak tree to the tree itself, creating the legend of the "Tree That Owns Itself."
  • 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_69d8e51e7d948190aedbcd6c30361c39 completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e658d9ee108190a53cc6c8e115d0fa completed April 20, 2026, 4:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07dbc653b481908e2884c1d2aa6ead completed May 16, 2026, 2:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07dfbf3c5881909395e9cfa4986429 completed May 16, 2026, 3:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07e08884788190b1c43d01e6022b4f completed May 16, 2026, 3:12 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:51 p.m.