Triple

T10292186
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject thalidomide E241389 entity
Predicate developedBy P73 FINISHED
Object Chemie Grünenthal
Chemie Grünenthal is a German pharmaceutical company historically known for developing the drug thalidomide, which caused a major global medical scandal due to its severe birth defect side effects.
E852354 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: Chemie Grünenthal | Statement: [thalidomide, developedBy, Chemie Grünenthal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Chemie Grünenthal
Context triple: [thalidomide, developedBy, Chemie Grünenthal]
  • A. Schering
    Schering is a German surname most notably associated with Ernst Schering, a 19th-century pharmacist and founder of the pharmaceutical company Schering AG.
  • B. Bayer
    Bayer is a major German multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences company known for products such as aspirin and its work in healthcare and agriculture.
  • C. Ciba-Geigy
    Ciba-Geigy was a major Swiss pharmaceutical and chemical company that became one of the predecessors of Novartis after its merger with Sandoz in 1996.
  • D. Schueller
    Schueller is a French surname most notably associated with Eugène Schueller, the chemist and entrepreneur who founded the cosmetics company L’Oréal.
  • E. Sandoz
    Sandoz is a historic Swiss pharmaceutical company best known as a predecessor of Novartis and a major player in generic medicines.
  • 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: Chemie Grünenthal
Triple: [thalidomide, developedBy, Chemie Grünenthal]
Generated description
Chemie Grünenthal is a German pharmaceutical company historically known for developing the drug thalidomide, which caused a major global medical scandal due to its severe birth defect side effects.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Chemie Grünenthal
Target entity description: Chemie Grünenthal is a German pharmaceutical company historically known for developing the drug thalidomide, which caused a major global medical scandal due to its severe birth defect side effects.
  • A. Schering
    Schering is a German surname most notably associated with Ernst Schering, a 19th-century pharmacist and founder of the pharmaceutical company Schering AG.
  • B. Bayer
    Bayer is a major German multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences company known for products such as aspirin and its work in healthcare and agriculture.
  • C. Ciba-Geigy
    Ciba-Geigy was a major Swiss pharmaceutical and chemical company that became one of the predecessors of Novartis after its merger with Sandoz in 1996.
  • D. Schueller
    Schueller is a French surname most notably associated with Eugène Schueller, the chemist and entrepreneur who founded the cosmetics company L’Oréal.
  • E. Sandoz
    Sandoz is a historic Swiss pharmaceutical company best known as a predecessor of Novartis and a major player in generic medicines.
  • 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_69d381aaafc08190af475ef58dc16aba completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4d2d35f048190a215493acdf1f718 completed April 7, 2026, 9:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d6f85dcbac8190a2ac66354010e328 completed April 9, 2026, 12:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d6fcaee26c8190a19f7d07a63531f6 completed April 9, 2026, 1:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d6fd879ab88190b0a47295f5d7ad4d completed April 9, 2026, 1:14 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:42 a.m.