Triple

T9573025
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Turner E230972 entity
Predicate sharesNameWith P15168 FINISHED
Object William Turner (botanist)
William Turner (botanist) was a 16th-century English naturalist, physician, and clergyman often regarded as the "father of English botany" for his pioneering works on British plants.
 E807689 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: William Turner (botanist) | Statement: [William Turner, sharesNameWith, William Turner (botanist)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Turner (botanist)
Context triple: [William Turner, sharesNameWith, William Turner (botanist)]
  • A. John Lindley
    John Lindley is an American cinematographer known for his work on popular films and television series, including the romantic comedy "You've Got Mail."
  • B. John Lindley
    John Lindley was a 19th-century English botanist renowned for his influential work in plant taxonomy and classification.
  • C. Thomas Nuttall
    Thomas Nuttall was a 19th-century English-born American botanist and zoologist known for his extensive exploration and classification of North American flora and fauna.
  • D. Philip Miller
    Philip Miller was an 18th-century Scottish botanist and chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden, renowned for his influential horticultural reference work "The Gardener's Dictionary."
  • E. Andrew Stearn
    Andrew Stearn is a television producer known for his executive production work on the crime drama series "Animal Kingdom."
  • 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: William Turner (botanist)
Triple: [William Turner, sharesNameWith, William Turner (botanist)]
Generated description
William Turner (botanist) was a 16th-century English naturalist, physician, and clergyman often regarded as the "father of English botany" for his pioneering works on British plants.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Turner (botanist)
Target entity description: William Turner (botanist) was a 16th-century English naturalist, physician, and clergyman often regarded as the "father of English botany" for his pioneering works on British plants.
  • A. John Lindley
    John Lindley is an American cinematographer known for his work on popular films and television series, including the romantic comedy "You've Got Mail."
  • B. John Lindley
    John Lindley was a 19th-century English botanist renowned for his influential work in plant taxonomy and classification.
  • C. Thomas Nuttall
    Thomas Nuttall was a 19th-century English-born American botanist and zoologist known for his extensive exploration and classification of North American flora and fauna.
  • D. Philip Miller
    Philip Miller was an 18th-century Scottish botanist and chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden, renowned for his influential horticultural reference work "The Gardener's Dictionary."
  • E. Andrew Stearn
    Andrew Stearn is a television producer known for his executive production work on the crime drama series "Animal Kingdom."
  • 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_69ca847f22188190a56e4a97625bef22 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd998d79cc8190b94e5953915a5fa4 completed April 1, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d152bf5c548190b6c33cc49e418ef7 completed April 4, 2026, 6:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d15404e9508190b5d9f1239586ab9a completed April 4, 2026, 6:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1546a503c81908edc9588adabc172 completed April 4, 2026, 6:11 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:04 p.m.