Triple

T19917183
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Galápagos penguin E478694 entity
Predicate describedBy P264 FINISHED
Object Alphonse Milne-Edwards
Alphonse Milne-Edwards was a 19th-century French zoologist and ornithologist known for his influential work on birds and other vertebrates, including the scientific description of several new species.
 E1402070 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: Alphonse Milne-Edwards | Statement: [Galápagos penguin, describedBy, Alphonse Milne-Edwards]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alphonse Milne-Edwards
Context triple: [Galápagos penguin, describedBy, Alphonse Milne-Edwards]
  • A. Henri Milne-Edwards
    Henri Milne-Edwards was a prominent 19th-century French zoologist and marine biologist known for his influential work on invertebrate anatomy and classification.
  • B. Theodor Milne-Edwards
    Theodor Milne-Edwards was a 19th-century French zoologist and naturalist known for his extensive work on mammalian taxonomy and comparative anatomy.
  • C. Gaston de Lacaze-Duthiers
    Gaston de Lacaze-Duthiers was a 19th-century French zoologist and anatomist renowned for his pioneering research in marine invertebrates and for founding important marine biology laboratories.
  • D. André Marie Constant Duméril
    André Marie Constant Duméril was a 19th-century French zoologist and herpetologist known for his extensive work in classifying reptiles and amphibians.
  • E. Élisabeth Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
    Élisabeth Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was the wife of French naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and a member of the prominent Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire family associated with 19th-century French science.
  • 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: Alphonse Milne-Edwards
Triple: [Galápagos penguin, describedBy, Alphonse Milne-Edwards]
Generated description
Alphonse Milne-Edwards was a 19th-century French zoologist and ornithologist known for his influential work on birds and other vertebrates, including the scientific description of several new species.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alphonse Milne-Edwards
Target entity description: Alphonse Milne-Edwards was a 19th-century French zoologist and ornithologist known for his influential work on birds and other vertebrates, including the scientific description of several new species.
  • A. Henri Milne-Edwards
    Henri Milne-Edwards was a prominent 19th-century French zoologist and marine biologist known for his influential work on invertebrate anatomy and classification.
  • B. Theodor Milne-Edwards
    Theodor Milne-Edwards was a 19th-century French zoologist and naturalist known for his extensive work on mammalian taxonomy and comparative anatomy.
  • C. Gaston de Lacaze-Duthiers
    Gaston de Lacaze-Duthiers was a 19th-century French zoologist and anatomist renowned for his pioneering research in marine invertebrates and for founding important marine biology laboratories.
  • D. André Marie Constant Duméril
    André Marie Constant Duméril was a 19th-century French zoologist and herpetologist known for his extensive work in classifying reptiles and amphibians.
  • E. Élisabeth Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
    Élisabeth Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was the wife of French naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and a member of the prominent Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire family associated with 19th-century French science.
  • 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_69d8e521855c8190b41871700afc8d6a completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e65995bd60819097cfad003dd29731 completed April 20, 2026, 4:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07ea52592481909419476f335b6046 completed May 16, 2026, 3:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07f2c7dec48190a698509098479a56 completed May 16, 2026, 4:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07f376f5388190989a0460528945df completed May 16, 2026, 4:32 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:53 p.m.