Triple

T11466586
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ziehl–Neelsen stain E271795 entity
Predicate developedBy P73 FINISHED
Object Friedrich Neelsen
Friedrich Neelsen was a German pathologist best known for co-developing the Ziehl–Neelsen staining technique used to detect acid-fast bacteria such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
E928059 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: Friedrich Neelsen | Statement: [Ziehl–Neelsen stain, developedBy, Friedrich Neelsen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Friedrich Neelsen
Context triple: [Ziehl–Neelsen stain, developedBy, Friedrich Neelsen]
  • A. Oluf Christian Dietrichson
    Oluf Christian Dietrichson was a Norwegian military officer and explorer best known for taking part in Fridtjof Nansen’s pioneering 1888–1889 crossing of the Greenland ice cap.
  • B. Gustaf Johansen
    Gustaf Johansen is a Norwegian sailor in H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu” whose harrowing encounter with the cosmic entity Cthulhu provides crucial evidence of the creature’s terrifying reality.
  • C. Frederic Knudtson
    Frederic Knudtson was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Adolf Gustav Thorsen
    Adolf Gustav Thorsen, better known as Gustav Vigeland, was a renowned Norwegian sculptor celebrated for his monumental Vigeland Installation in Oslo’s Frogner Park.
  • E. Georg C. F. Greve
    Georg C. F. Greve is a German physicist and software developer best known as a leading advocate for free software and the founding president of the Free Software Foundation Europe.
  • 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: Friedrich Neelsen
Triple: [Ziehl–Neelsen stain, developedBy, Friedrich Neelsen]
Generated description
Friedrich Neelsen was a German pathologist best known for co-developing the Ziehl–Neelsen staining technique used to detect acid-fast bacteria such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Friedrich Neelsen
Target entity description: Friedrich Neelsen was a German pathologist best known for co-developing the Ziehl–Neelsen staining technique used to detect acid-fast bacteria such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
  • A. Oluf Christian Dietrichson
    Oluf Christian Dietrichson was a Norwegian military officer and explorer best known for taking part in Fridtjof Nansen’s pioneering 1888–1889 crossing of the Greenland ice cap.
  • B. Gustaf Johansen
    Gustaf Johansen is a Norwegian sailor in H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu” whose harrowing encounter with the cosmic entity Cthulhu provides crucial evidence of the creature’s terrifying reality.
  • C. Frederic Knudtson
    Frederic Knudtson was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Adolf Gustav Thorsen
    Adolf Gustav Thorsen, better known as Gustav Vigeland, was a renowned Norwegian sculptor celebrated for his monumental Vigeland Installation in Oslo’s Frogner Park.
  • E. Georg C. F. Greve
    Georg C. F. Greve is a German physicist and software developer best known as a leading advocate for free software and the founding president of the Free Software Foundation Europe.
  • 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_69d6aae0c8d881908a5a360c0be3242e completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d822f5eb988190b309b8e309f6d1a5 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e5e9429a308190810b485708d28617 completed April 20, 2026, 8:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e5f1593c2c8190885f80ad5eeba3ec completed April 20, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e5f87bbd988190ac388a3c34b2e95a completed April 20, 2026, 9:57 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:35 p.m.