Triple

T1218833
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Bir Hakeim E26170 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Friedrich von Mellenthin
Friedrich von Mellenthin was a German Wehrmacht officer and later military historian, best known for his service as a staff officer in armoured units during World War II and for his influential postwar writings on tank warfare.
E394202 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 von Mellenthin | Statement: [Battle of Bir Hakeim, commander, Friedrich von Mellenthin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Friedrich von Mellenthin
Context triple: [Battle of Bir Hakeim, commander, Friedrich von Mellenthin]
  • A. Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk
    Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk was a German politician who served as finance minister under the Nazi regime and briefly headed the Flensburg government after Hitler’s death.
  • B. Franz von Holzhausen
    Franz von Holzhausen is an American automobile designer best known as Tesla’s chief designer, responsible for the styling of vehicles such as the Model S, Model 3, Model X, Model Y, and the Cybertruck.
  • C. Ernst Heinrich von Klotzsch
    Ernst Heinrich von Klotzsch was a 19th-century German botanist known for his taxonomic work on plants, including the formal description of the conifer genus Platycladus.
  • D. Ernst Sagebiel
    Ernst Sagebiel was a German architect best known for designing monumental Nazi-era structures, including major airport and government buildings in Berlin.
  • E. Ernst Wilhelm Bohle
    Ernst Wilhelm Bohle was a high-ranking Nazi official who led the party’s Foreign Organization (NSDAP/AO) and was later tried as a defendant in the post–World War II Ministries Trial.
  • 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 von Mellenthin
Triple: [Battle of Bir Hakeim, commander, Friedrich von Mellenthin]
Generated description
Friedrich von Mellenthin was a German Wehrmacht officer and later military historian, best known for his service as a staff officer in armoured units during World War II and for his influential postwar writings on tank warfare.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Friedrich von Mellenthin
Target entity description: Friedrich von Mellenthin was a German Wehrmacht officer and later military historian, best known for his service as a staff officer in armoured units during World War II and for his influential postwar writings on tank warfare.
  • A. Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk
    Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk was a German politician who served as finance minister under the Nazi regime and briefly headed the Flensburg government after Hitler’s death.
  • B. Franz von Holzhausen
    Franz von Holzhausen is an American automobile designer best known as Tesla’s chief designer, responsible for the styling of vehicles such as the Model S, Model 3, Model X, Model Y, and the Cybertruck.
  • C. Ernst Heinrich von Klotzsch
    Ernst Heinrich von Klotzsch was a 19th-century German botanist known for his taxonomic work on plants, including the formal description of the conifer genus Platycladus.
  • D. Ernst Sagebiel
    Ernst Sagebiel was a German architect best known for designing monumental Nazi-era structures, including major airport and government buildings in Berlin.
  • E. Ernst Wilhelm Bohle
    Ernst Wilhelm Bohle was a high-ranking Nazi official who led the party’s Foreign Organization (NSDAP/AO) and was later tried as a defendant in the post–World War II Ministries Trial.
  • 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_69a4948331fc8190b531ac9bec71c491 completed March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4be1d55a08190a138b2411a7c4376 completed March 1, 2026, 10:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b511ebd11c8190ba5a6917d3731de9 completed March 14, 2026, 7:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5126d8cf88190ac7cd7fdca54eddc completed March 14, 2026, 7:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b513289494819090a2d527780c2cc6 completed March 14, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:46 p.m.