Triple

T10269895
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wilhelm Blaschke E240805 entity
Predicate notableStudent P4838 FINISHED
Object W. Fenchel
W. Fenchel was a prominent 20th-century mathematician known for his influential work in convex geometry and functional analysis.
E861308 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: W. Fenchel | Statement: [Wilhelm Blaschke, notableStudent, W. Fenchel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W. Fenchel
Context triple: [Wilhelm Blaschke, notableStudent, W. Fenchel]
  • A. Herbert Busemann
    Herbert Busemann was a German-American mathematician known for his influential work in geometry, particularly convex and metric geometry, and for his contributions to the axiomatic foundations of geometry.
  • B. Max Dehn
    Max Dehn was a German mathematician known for his foundational work in topology and group theory, including the introduction of Dehn surgery and the study of decision problems in group theory.
  • C. Wilhelm Blaschke
    Wilhelm Blaschke was a prominent Austrian mathematician known for his influential work in differential and integral geometry and for mentoring several leading 20th-century geometers.
  • D. Fritz John
    Fritz John was a German-American mathematician renowned for his contributions to partial differential equations, calculus of variations, and functional analysis.
  • E. Klaus Jänich
    Klaus Jänich is a German mathematician known for his work in topology and for authoring influential textbooks in the field.
  • 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: W. Fenchel
Triple: [Wilhelm Blaschke, notableStudent, W. Fenchel]
Generated description
W. Fenchel was a prominent 20th-century mathematician known for his influential work in convex geometry and functional analysis.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W. Fenchel
Target entity description: W. Fenchel was a prominent 20th-century mathematician known for his influential work in convex geometry and functional analysis.
  • A. Herbert Busemann
    Herbert Busemann was a German-American mathematician known for his influential work in geometry, particularly convex and metric geometry, and for his contributions to the axiomatic foundations of geometry.
  • B. Max Dehn
    Max Dehn was a German mathematician known for his foundational work in topology and group theory, including the introduction of Dehn surgery and the study of decision problems in group theory.
  • C. Wilhelm Blaschke
    Wilhelm Blaschke was a prominent Austrian mathematician known for his influential work in differential and integral geometry and for mentoring several leading 20th-century geometers.
  • D. Fritz John
    Fritz John was a German-American mathematician renowned for his contributions to partial differential equations, calculus of variations, and functional analysis.
  • E. Klaus Jänich
    Klaus Jänich is a German mathematician known for his work in topology and for authoring influential textbooks in the field.
  • 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_69d381a94c1881908fc38fc263d9b9c2 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4d270fb088190ba43b6f24e881b94 completed April 7, 2026, 9:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d7fb440b9c81909db46299053e11da completed April 9, 2026, 7:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d822d303888190aa556287b3b1cc03 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d859b05a3881908c97cb173d160e44 completed April 10, 2026, 2 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:35 a.m.