Triple

T20696164
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pipilo E508663 entity
Predicate notableSpeciesCommonName P965 FINISHED
Object Green-tailed Towhee
The Green-tailed Towhee is a small, ground-foraging New World sparrow known for its olive-green tail, rufous crown, and preference for shrubby habitats in the western United States and Mexico.
E1447757 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: Green-tailed Towhee | Statement: [Pipilo, notableSpeciesCommonName, Green-tailed Towhee]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Green-tailed Towhee
Context triple: [Pipilo, notableSpeciesCommonName, Green-tailed Towhee]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Cassin’s Finch
    Cassin’s Finch is a small North American songbird in the finch family, noted for the adult male’s rosy-red plumage and melodious warbling song.
  • E. Turdus hauxwelli
    Turdus hauxwelli, commonly known as Hauxwell's thrush, is a South American forest-dwelling songbird in the thrush family Turdidae.
  • 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: Green-tailed Towhee
Triple: [Pipilo, notableSpeciesCommonName, Green-tailed Towhee]
Generated description
The Green-tailed Towhee is a small, ground-foraging New World sparrow known for its olive-green tail, rufous crown, and preference for shrubby habitats in the western United States and Mexico.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Green-tailed Towhee
Target entity description: The Green-tailed Towhee is a small, ground-foraging New World sparrow known for its olive-green tail, rufous crown, and preference for shrubby habitats in the western United States and Mexico.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Cassin’s Finch
    Cassin’s Finch is a small North American songbird in the finch family, noted for the adult male’s rosy-red plumage and melodious warbling song.
  • E. Turdus hauxwelli
    Turdus hauxwelli, commonly known as Hauxwell's thrush, is a South American forest-dwelling songbird in the thrush family Turdidae.
  • 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_6a08e82c317c8190b4947e8d32494074 completed May 16, 2026, 9:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08e8aaf8c48190a39ff61647931670 completed May 16, 2026, 9:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08e91102e081909b22c8d69c6c994c completed May 16, 2026, 10 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:10 p.m.