Triple

T1158697
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Night of the Generals E24443 entity
Predicate authorOfSourceWork P2353 FINISHED
Object Hans Hellmut Kirst
Hans Hellmut Kirst was a German novelist best known for his satirical and critical works about the Nazi era and the German military.
 E372306 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: Hans Hellmut Kirst | Statement: [The Night of the Generals, authorOfSourceWork, Hans Hellmut Kirst]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hans Hellmut Kirst
Context triple: [The Night of the Generals, authorOfSourceWork, Hans Hellmut Kirst]
  • A. Horst Kettner
    Horst Kettner is best known as the longtime companion and later husband of German filmmaker and photographer Leni Riefenstahl, with whom he collaborated closely in her later life and work.
  • B. Günther Sabetzki
    Günther Sabetzki was a prominent German ice hockey executive and long-serving president of the International Ice Hockey Federation who played a key role in modernizing and internationalizing the sport.
  • C. Siegfried Günter
    Siegfried Günter was a German aeronautical engineer known for designing several influential Luftwaffe aircraft in the 1930s and 1940s.
  • D. Gerhard Doerfer
    Gerhard Doerfer was a German linguist renowned for his critical work on Turkic and other Central Asian languages and for his influential rejection of the proposed Altaic language family.
  • E. Gerhard Schöpfel
    Gerhard Schöpfel was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace of World War II who became a high-scoring pilot and commander on the Western Front.
  • 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: Hans Hellmut Kirst
Triple: [The Night of the Generals, authorOfSourceWork, Hans Hellmut Kirst]
Generated description
Hans Hellmut Kirst was a German novelist best known for his satirical and critical works about the Nazi era and the German military.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hans Hellmut Kirst
Target entity description: Hans Hellmut Kirst was a German novelist best known for his satirical and critical works about the Nazi era and the German military.
  • A. Horst Kettner
    Horst Kettner is best known as the longtime companion and later husband of German filmmaker and photographer Leni Riefenstahl, with whom he collaborated closely in her later life and work.
  • B. Günther Sabetzki
    Günther Sabetzki was a prominent German ice hockey executive and long-serving president of the International Ice Hockey Federation who played a key role in modernizing and internationalizing the sport.
  • C. Siegfried Günter
    Siegfried Günter was a German aeronautical engineer known for designing several influential Luftwaffe aircraft in the 1930s and 1940s.
  • D. Gerhard Doerfer
    Gerhard Doerfer was a German linguist renowned for his critical work on Turkic and other Central Asian languages and for his influential rejection of the proposed Altaic language family.
  • E. Gerhard Schöpfel
    Gerhard Schöpfel was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace of World War II who became a high-scoring pilot and commander on the Western Front.
  • 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_69a494060e148190abb42f971242c197 completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bcad47a08190895769611798f67f completed March 1, 2026, 10:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4029cfa148190baad6968cf6dad3a completed March 13, 2026, 12:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b40da9e4808190a01d7305d4fdb7f3 completed March 13, 2026, 1:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b42d8084c88190a2aae4a883d050a0 completed March 13, 2026, 3:30 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.