Triple

T10028750
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Vissel Kobe E204797 entity
Predicate notableFormerPlayer P304 FINISHED
Object Thomas Vermaelen
Thomas Vermaelen is a Belgian former professional footballer and defender best known for his time at clubs such as Ajax, Arsenal, Barcelona, and the Belgium national team.
E836501 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: Thomas Vermaelen | Statement: [Vissel Kobe, notableFormerPlayer, Thomas Vermaelen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Vermaelen
Context triple: [Vissel Kobe, notableFormerPlayer, Thomas Vermaelen]
  • A. Wim van de Donk
    Wim van de Donk is a Dutch academic and public administrator known for his leadership roles in higher education and government, including serving as rector magnificus of Tilburg University and as King’s Commissioner in the province of North Brabant.
  • B. Frenkie de Jong
    Frenkie de Jong is a Dutch professional footballer known for his intelligent playmaking and ball-carrying ability as a central midfielder for FC Barcelona and the Netherlands national team.
  • C. Denzel Dumfries
    Denzel Dumfries is a Dutch professional footballer known for playing as an attacking right-back or wing-back for Inter Milan and the Netherlands national team.
  • D. Johan Neeskens
    Johan Neeskens is a former Dutch footballer renowned as one of the world’s best midfielders of the 1970s, especially for his role in the Netherlands’ “Total Football” era and at clubs like Ajax and FC Barcelona.
  • E. Matthijs de Ligt
    Matthijs de Ligt is a Dutch professional footballer, known as a highly rated central defender who has played for clubs such as Ajax, Juventus, and Bayern Munich as well as the Netherlands national team.
  • 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: Thomas Vermaelen
Triple: [Vissel Kobe, notableFormerPlayer, Thomas Vermaelen]
Generated description
Thomas Vermaelen is a Belgian former professional footballer and defender best known for his time at clubs such as Ajax, Arsenal, Barcelona, and the Belgium national team.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Vermaelen
Target entity description: Thomas Vermaelen is a Belgian former professional footballer and defender best known for his time at clubs such as Ajax, Arsenal, Barcelona, and the Belgium national team.
  • A. Wim van de Donk
    Wim van de Donk is a Dutch academic and public administrator known for his leadership roles in higher education and government, including serving as rector magnificus of Tilburg University and as King’s Commissioner in the province of North Brabant.
  • B. Frenkie de Jong
    Frenkie de Jong is a Dutch professional footballer known for his intelligent playmaking and ball-carrying ability as a central midfielder for FC Barcelona and the Netherlands national team.
  • C. Denzel Dumfries
    Denzel Dumfries is a Dutch professional footballer known for playing as an attacking right-back or wing-back for Inter Milan and the Netherlands national team.
  • D. Johan Neeskens
    Johan Neeskens is a former Dutch footballer renowned as one of the world’s best midfielders of the 1970s, especially for his role in the Netherlands’ “Total Football” era and at clubs like Ajax and FC Barcelona.
  • E. Matthijs de Ligt
    Matthijs de Ligt is a Dutch professional footballer, known as a highly rated central defender who has played for clubs such as Ajax, Juventus, and Bayern Munich as well as the Netherlands national team.
  • 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_69ca834d77188190ad645e33e8ca3200 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdcde51c408190afb34010b1707014 completed April 2, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d282351ebc8190b22bf3964823b0ee completed April 5, 2026, 3:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d282fd10248190a1a0b4573b2065ae completed April 5, 2026, 3:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d283d0e1748190a0c65bbaa8e8348e completed April 5, 2026, 3:46 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:54 p.m.