Triple

T26170048
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Life and Death of Planet Earth E654374 entity
Predicate coAuthorField P160352 FINISHED
Object Peter Ward – paleontology
Peter Ward is an American paleontologist and professor known for his research on mass extinctions and the history of life on Earth, as well as for authoring influential popular science books.
 E1709541 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Peter Ward – paleontology | Statement: [The Life and Death of Planet Earth, coAuthorField, Peter Ward – paleontology]
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: Peter Ward – paleontology
Triple: [The Life and Death of Planet Earth, coAuthorField, Peter Ward – paleontology]
Generated description
Peter Ward is an American paleontologist and professor known for his research on mass extinctions and the history of life on Earth, as well as for authoring influential popular science books.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target predicate: coAuthorField
Context triple: [The Life and Death of Planet Earth, coAuthorField, Peter Ward – paleontology]
  • A. coAuthorField chosen
    Indicates that two or more entities have jointly authored a work within the same academic or professional field.
  • B. coAuthorshipType
    Indicates the specific nature or category of the collaborative authorship relationship between two or more contributors.
  • C. coAuthorAlsoWrote
    Indicates that a person who is a co-author of one work also wrote another work, linking shared authorship across multiple creations.
  • D. hasCoauthor
    Indicates that two or more entities have jointly authored the same work or publication.
  • E. coAuthorAttributionTradition
    Indicates that there is a recognized tradition or convention of attributing co-authorship between the related entities.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69ee5b44391c81908bdbd8813ba9aa99 completed April 26, 2026, 6:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f60c425de88190a221b40e81d0dcc1 completed May 2, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a11277963648190b63c6eae76562fd3 completed May 23, 2026, 4:05 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a112d6278448190b2d341a940b350cd completed May 23, 2026, 4:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a112f429b708190a0b849fc00ec4b51 completed May 23, 2026, 4:38 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69f602d07590819085ac34b189613104 completed May 2, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
Created at: April 26, 2026, 8:34 p.m.