Triple

T20696163
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pipilo E508663 entity
Predicate notableSpeciesCommonName P965 FINISHED
Object Spotted Towhee
The Spotted Towhee is a striking North American sparrow known for its bold black, white, and rufous plumage and its loud, scratchy song often heard in shrubby habitats.
E1446693 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: Spotted Towhee | Statement: [Pipilo, notableSpeciesCommonName, Spotted Towhee]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spotted Towhee
Context triple: [Pipilo, notableSpeciesCommonName, Spotted Towhee]
  • A. Eastern Towhee
    The Eastern Towhee is a large, striking North American sparrow known for its bold black, white, and rufous plumage and its distinctive “drink-your-tea” song.
  • B. Cassin’s Sparrow
    Cassin’s Sparrow is a small, streaky brown songbird of arid grasslands in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, noted for its skylarking display flights and subtle plumage.
  • C. Lincoln's sparrow
    Lincoln's sparrow is a small, shy North American songbird known for its finely streaked breast, buffy facial markings, and preference for dense wetland and shrubby habitats.
  • D. Brown thrasher
    The Brown thrasher is a medium-sized North American songbird known for its rich, varied vocalizations and striking rufous-brown plumage with heavily streaked underparts.
  • E. Turdus serranus
    Turdus serranus, commonly known as the Andean Slaty Thrush, is a bird species in the thrush family (Turdidae) native to montane forests of the Andes in South America.
  • 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: Spotted Towhee
Triple: [Pipilo, notableSpeciesCommonName, Spotted Towhee]
Generated description
The Spotted Towhee is a striking North American sparrow known for its bold black, white, and rufous plumage and its loud, scratchy song often heard in shrubby habitats.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spotted Towhee
Target entity description: The Spotted Towhee is a striking North American sparrow known for its bold black, white, and rufous plumage and its loud, scratchy song often heard in shrubby habitats.
  • A. Eastern Towhee
    The Eastern Towhee is a large, striking North American sparrow known for its bold black, white, and rufous plumage and its distinctive “drink-your-tea” song.
  • B. Cassin’s Sparrow
    Cassin’s Sparrow is a small, streaky brown songbird of arid grasslands in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, noted for its skylarking display flights and subtle plumage.
  • C. Lincoln's sparrow
    Lincoln's sparrow is a small, shy North American songbird known for its finely streaked breast, buffy facial markings, and preference for dense wetland and shrubby habitats.
  • D. Brown thrasher
    The Brown thrasher is a medium-sized North American songbird known for its rich, varied vocalizations and striking rufous-brown plumage with heavily streaked underparts.
  • E. Turdus serranus
    Turdus serranus, commonly known as the Andean Slaty Thrush, is a bird species in the thrush family (Turdidae) native to montane forests of the Andes in South America.
  • 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_69e0b4c2b2a481909e31e9cb8f81ab55 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6c1123d7c81908a1d16923437266d completed April 21, 2026, 12:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08e048d1408190b3c65028d17753fc completed May 16, 2026, 9:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08e0e44be8819081e3ee727887802e completed May 16, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08e18faf24819092098e3b74a418e1 completed May 16, 2026, 9:28 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:10 p.m.