Triple

T21465220
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Joel Asaph Allen E529577 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object Allen's rule
Allen's rule is a biological principle stating that endothermic animals in colder climates tend to have shorter limbs and appendages than those in warmer climates to minimize heat loss.
E1486528 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: Allen's rule | Statement: [Joel Asaph Allen, knownFor, Allen's rule]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Allen's rule
Context triple: [Joel Asaph Allen, knownFor, Allen's rule]
  • A. Gloger’s rule
    Gloger’s rule is an ecogeographical principle stating that endothermic animals in more humid, warmer climates tend to have darker pigmentation than those in cooler, drier regions.
  • B. Bergmann
    Bergmann is a German-language surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as science, philosophy, and the arts.
  • C. Cope’s rule
    Cope’s rule is an evolutionary hypothesis proposing that animal lineages tend to increase in body size over geological time.
  • D. Kleiber
    Kleiber is a German surname most famously associated with Carlos Kleiber, one of the 20th century’s most acclaimed orchestral conductors.
  • E. Osthoff's law
    Osthoff's law is a sound change in Indo-European linguistics describing the shortening of long vowels before resonant consonants followed by another consonant.
  • 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: Allen's rule
Triple: [Joel Asaph Allen, knownFor, Allen's rule]
Generated description
Allen's rule is a biological principle stating that endothermic animals in colder climates tend to have shorter limbs and appendages than those in warmer climates to minimize heat loss.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Allen's rule
Target entity description: Allen's rule is a biological principle stating that endothermic animals in colder climates tend to have shorter limbs and appendages than those in warmer climates to minimize heat loss.
  • A. Gloger’s rule
    Gloger’s rule is an ecogeographical principle stating that endothermic animals in more humid, warmer climates tend to have darker pigmentation than those in cooler, drier regions.
  • B. Bergmann
    Bergmann is a German-language surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as science, philosophy, and the arts.
  • C. Cope’s rule
    Cope’s rule is an evolutionary hypothesis proposing that animal lineages tend to increase in body size over geological time.
  • D. Kleiber
    Kleiber is a German surname most famously associated with Carlos Kleiber, one of the 20th century’s most acclaimed orchestral conductors.
  • E. Osthoff's law
    Osthoff's law is a sound change in Indo-European linguistics describing the shortening of long vowels before resonant consonants followed by another consonant.
  • 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_69e0c458133481908ae8b41a12c4edec completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e9e9f1b3cc819092c200f09c6f461e completed April 23, 2026, 9:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09cff295b88190bb73ee4f9e10be96 completed May 17, 2026, 2:25 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09d12a7e48819096d0bfe0c6f70e51 completed May 17, 2026, 2:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09d20ea5a8819097f8056451a2f3ac completed May 17, 2026, 2:34 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:09 p.m.