Triple

T11436327
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Johannes Diderik van der Waals E271018 entity
Predicate hasRelative P367 FINISHED
Object Truus van der Waals
Truus van der Waals was a relative of the Dutch Nobel Prize–winning physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals, known for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.
E928300 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: Truus van der Waals | Statement: [Johannes Diderik van der Waals, hasRelative, Truus van der Waals]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Truus van der Waals
Context triple: [Johannes Diderik van der Waals, hasRelative, Truus van der Waals]
  • A. Johannes Diderik van der Waals
    Johannes Diderik van der Waals was a Dutch theoretical physicist best known for formulating the van der Waals equation of state, which describes the behavior of real gases and earned him the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • B. Andries Bonger
    Andries Bonger was a Dutch art collector and dealer closely connected to the Van Gogh family and the early promotion of Vincent van Gogh’s work.
  • C. Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz
    Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz was a Dutch physicist and the daughter of Nobel laureate Hendrik Lorentz, known for her work in low-temperature physics and her collaboration with her husband Wander Johannes de Haas.
  • D. Gerrit Jan Gorter
    Gerrit Jan Gorter is a Dutch local politician who serves as the mayor of the municipality of Zeewolde in the Netherlands.
  • E. Hendrik Anthony Kramers
    Hendrik Anthony Kramers was a Dutch theoretical physicist known for his pioneering work in quantum mechanics, dispersion theory, and the Kramers–Kronig relations.
  • 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: Truus van der Waals
Triple: [Johannes Diderik van der Waals, hasRelative, Truus van der Waals]
Generated description
Truus van der Waals was a relative of the Dutch Nobel Prize–winning physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals, known for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Truus van der Waals
Target entity description: Truus van der Waals was a relative of the Dutch Nobel Prize–winning physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals, known for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.
  • A. Johannes Diderik van der Waals
    Johannes Diderik van der Waals was a Dutch theoretical physicist best known for formulating the van der Waals equation of state, which describes the behavior of real gases and earned him the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • B. Andries Bonger
    Andries Bonger was a Dutch art collector and dealer closely connected to the Van Gogh family and the early promotion of Vincent van Gogh’s work.
  • C. Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz
    Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz was a Dutch physicist and the daughter of Nobel laureate Hendrik Lorentz, known for her work in low-temperature physics and her collaboration with her husband Wander Johannes de Haas.
  • D. Gerrit Jan Gorter
    Gerrit Jan Gorter is a Dutch local politician who serves as the mayor of the municipality of Zeewolde in the Netherlands.
  • E. Hendrik Anthony Kramers
    Hendrik Anthony Kramers was a Dutch theoretical physicist known for his pioneering work in quantum mechanics, dispersion theory, and the Kramers–Kronig relations.
  • 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_69d6aadeef688190874bcecd88b3dd9b completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d808855a7481909314f90ad92aae68 completed April 9, 2026, 8:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e603f7b7c0819092de5ab040b21dc9 completed April 20, 2026, 10:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e610a07bf881908de79850edb9576f completed April 20, 2026, 11:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e617fdaaa88190a1860fb00309596b completed April 20, 2026, 12:11 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:35 p.m.