Triple
T11331480
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Alfred Beit |
E268352
|
entity |
| Predicate | employer |
P7
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Wernher, Beit & Co.
Wernher, Beit & Co. was a prominent late 19th- and early 20th-century British-based mining finance house heavily involved in South African diamond and gold ventures.
|
E918082
|
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: Wernher, Beit & Co. | Statement: [Alfred Beit, employer, Wernher, Beit & Co.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wernher, Beit & Co. Context triple: [Alfred Beit, employer, Wernher, Beit & Co.]
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A.
Buna-Werke
Buna-Werke was a synthetic rubber and fuel plant operated by IG Farben near Auschwitz, notorious for its use of forced labor from the adjacent Monowitz concentration camp during World War II.
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B.
L. Possehl & Co.
L. Possehl & Co. is a German industrial and trading company historically associated with metal and raw materials commerce and later diversified business activities.
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C.
Wertheim & Company
Wertheim & Company was a prominent American investment banking and brokerage firm active in the mid-20th century financial industry.
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D.
Duncker & Humblot
Duncker & Humblot is a long-established German academic publishing house known for its scholarly works in the humanities and social sciences.
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E.
E.S. Mittler & Sohn
E.S. Mittler & Sohn is a historic German publishing house known for its military and technical literature.
- 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: Wernher, Beit & Co. Triple: [Alfred Beit, employer, Wernher, Beit & Co.]
Generated description
Wernher, Beit & Co. was a prominent late 19th- and early 20th-century British-based mining finance house heavily involved in South African diamond and gold ventures.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wernher, Beit & Co. Target entity description: Wernher, Beit & Co. was a prominent late 19th- and early 20th-century British-based mining finance house heavily involved in South African diamond and gold ventures.
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A.
Buna-Werke
Buna-Werke was a synthetic rubber and fuel plant operated by IG Farben near Auschwitz, notorious for its use of forced labor from the adjacent Monowitz concentration camp during World War II.
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B.
L. Possehl & Co.
L. Possehl & Co. is a German industrial and trading company historically associated with metal and raw materials commerce and later diversified business activities.
-
C.
Wertheim & Company
Wertheim & Company was a prominent American investment banking and brokerage firm active in the mid-20th century financial industry.
-
D.
Duncker & Humblot
Duncker & Humblot is a long-established German academic publishing house known for its scholarly works in the humanities and social sciences.
-
E.
E.S. Mittler & Sohn
E.S. Mittler & Sohn is a historic German publishing house known for its military and technical literature.
- 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_69d6aacb1f0881908c84a349fd1be047 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d7e9fd38308190a5458be1bfcc89ea |
completed | April 9, 2026, 6:03 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69e526236b688190aca4f2400a12e726 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 6:59 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69e52c83768c819086ebfd870ad81998 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 7:26 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69e531d0ab5881909814160b86c8e76b |
completed | April 19, 2026, 7:49 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:32 p.m.