Triple

T12762358
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject New Era Cap Company E305025 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Erhardt Koch
Erhardt Koch was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of the New Era Cap Company, a leading manufacturer of baseball caps and headwear.
E1005394 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: Erhardt Koch | Statement: [New Era Cap Company, foundedBy, Erhardt Koch]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Erhardt Koch
Context triple: [New Era Cap Company, foundedBy, Erhardt Koch]
  • A. Rudolf Brandt
    Rudolf Brandt was a senior SS officer and personal administrative officer to Heinrich Himmler who was convicted and executed for his role in Nazi medical war crimes during the Doctors' Trial after World War II.
  • B. Erich Koch-Weser
    Erich Koch-Weser was a prominent liberal German politician and lawyer of the Weimar Republic, serving as a leading figure in centrist democratic politics and holding posts such as Vice Chancellor and Interior Minister.
  • C. Hermann Kanzler
    Hermann Kanzler was a 19th-century German-born general who served as the last commander-in-chief of the Papal States' army, notably defending Rome shortly before its annexation by the Kingdom of Italy.
  • D. Erich Koch
    Erich Koch was a high-ranking Nazi official and war criminal who served as the brutal Reichskommissar (civilian administrator) of occupied Ukraine during World War II.
  • E. Carl Goerdeler
    Carl Goerdeler was a German conservative politician and former mayor of Leipzig who became a leading civilian figure in the resistance against Hitler and a key planner of the 20 July plot to overthrow the Nazi regime.
  • 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: Erhardt Koch
Triple: [New Era Cap Company, foundedBy, Erhardt Koch]
Generated description
Erhardt Koch was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of the New Era Cap Company, a leading manufacturer of baseball caps and headwear.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Erhardt Koch
Target entity description: Erhardt Koch was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of the New Era Cap Company, a leading manufacturer of baseball caps and headwear.
  • A. Rudolf Brandt
    Rudolf Brandt was a senior SS officer and personal administrative officer to Heinrich Himmler who was convicted and executed for his role in Nazi medical war crimes during the Doctors' Trial after World War II.
  • B. Erich Koch-Weser
    Erich Koch-Weser was a prominent liberal German politician and lawyer of the Weimar Republic, serving as a leading figure in centrist democratic politics and holding posts such as Vice Chancellor and Interior Minister.
  • C. Hermann Kanzler
    Hermann Kanzler was a 19th-century German-born general who served as the last commander-in-chief of the Papal States' army, notably defending Rome shortly before its annexation by the Kingdom of Italy.
  • D. Erich Koch
    Erich Koch was a high-ranking Nazi official and war criminal who served as the brutal Reichskommissar (civilian administrator) of occupied Ukraine during World War II.
  • E. Carl Goerdeler
    Carl Goerdeler was a German conservative politician and former mayor of Leipzig who became a leading civilian figure in the resistance against Hitler and a key planner of the 20 July plot to overthrow the Nazi regime.
  • 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_69d7bdf1fcd081909ffb0e0d6fa3a07d completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96d8f9f588190bffdea878856204b completed April 10, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f68eb7e8448190a097d40ed8927285 completed May 2, 2026, 11:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6902f138c8190a94a01c1fbb30b57 completed May 3, 2026, midnight
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f69138b40881909e9c74d6d922e1f3 completed May 3, 2026, 12:05 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:28 p.m.