Triple

T23047002
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Aelian's On the Nature of Animals E573902 entity
Predicate latinTitle P9999 FINISHED
Object De Natura Animalium
De Natura Animalium is the Latin title of Aelian’s ancient miscellany of animal lore, a work that blends natural history with anecdotal and moralizing stories about animals.
E1568795 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: De Natura Animalium | Statement: [Aelian's On the Nature of Animals, latinTitle, De Natura Animalium]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: De Natura Animalium
Context triple: [Aelian's On the Nature of Animals, latinTitle, De Natura Animalium]
  • A. De motu animalium
    De motu animalium is Aristotle’s treatise that analyzes how and why animals move, integrating biological observation with principles of physics and psychology.
  • B. De animalibus
    De animalibus is a comprehensive 13th-century zoological treatise by Albert the Great that systematically compiles and expands upon Aristotelian and medieval knowledge about animals.
  • C. Aristotle’s De partibus animalium
    Aristotle’s De partibus animalium is a foundational biological treatise in which Aristotle systematically analyzes and explains the structure, functions, and purposes of the parts of animals.
  • D. Descriptiones animalium
    Descriptiones animalium is an 18th-century zoological work by naturalist Peter Forsskål that catalogues and describes animal species observed during his scientific expedition to the Middle East.
  • E. Aristotle’s De generatione animalium
    Aristotle’s *De generatione animalium* is an ancient Greek philosophical and scientific treatise that systematically examines animal reproduction, development, and heredity as part of his broader biological works.
  • 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: De Natura Animalium
Triple: [Aelian's On the Nature of Animals, latinTitle, De Natura Animalium]
Generated description
De Natura Animalium is the Latin title of Aelian’s ancient miscellany of animal lore, a work that blends natural history with anecdotal and moralizing stories about animals.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: De Natura Animalium
Target entity description: De Natura Animalium is the Latin title of Aelian’s ancient miscellany of animal lore, a work that blends natural history with anecdotal and moralizing stories about animals.
  • A. De motu animalium
    De motu animalium is Aristotle’s treatise that analyzes how and why animals move, integrating biological observation with principles of physics and psychology.
  • B. De animalibus
    De animalibus is a comprehensive 13th-century zoological treatise by Albert the Great that systematically compiles and expands upon Aristotelian and medieval knowledge about animals.
  • C. Aristotle’s De partibus animalium
    Aristotle’s De partibus animalium is a foundational biological treatise in which Aristotle systematically analyzes and explains the structure, functions, and purposes of the parts of animals.
  • D. Descriptiones animalium
    Descriptiones animalium is an 18th-century zoological work by naturalist Peter Forsskål that catalogues and describes animal species observed during his scientific expedition to the Middle East.
  • E. Aristotle’s De generatione animalium
    Aristotle’s *De generatione animalium* is an ancient Greek philosophical and scientific treatise that systematically examines animal reproduction, development, and heredity as part of his broader biological works.
  • 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_69e245b9c11481909d06c872214d21af completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f18678e5c48190a96a7b4c9c82f8fe completed April 29, 2026, 4:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c0adc6300819096db90634b70e16a completed May 19, 2026, 7:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c0f3fe0d081908b86806ec2399eca completed May 19, 2026, 7:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c0fd3f8608190879a222a697716bd completed May 19, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:54 p.m.