Triple

T12841062
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Christiaan Barnard E307051 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Barbara Zoellner
Barbara Zoellner is best known as the second wife of pioneering South African heart transplant surgeon Christiaan Barnard.
E1043187 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: Barbara Zoellner | Statement: [Christiaan Barnard, spouse, Barbara Zoellner]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Barbara Zoellner
Context triple: [Christiaan Barnard, spouse, Barbara Zoellner]
  • A. Annette Ziegler
    Annette Ziegler is an American jurist who serves as the Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
  • B. Barbara Rütting
    Barbara Rütting was a German actress and later author and politician, known for her roles in postwar European cinema and her environmental and animal rights activism.
  • C. Barbara Fuchs
    Barbara Fuchs is a literary scholar known for her work on early modern Spanish and English literature, translation, and cultural exchange.
  • D. Anne Ziegler
    Anne Ziegler was a British soprano and actress best known for her popular duets and stage performances with her husband, tenor Webster Booth, during the mid-20th century.
  • E. Paula Winkler
    Paula Winkler was a German-Jewish writer and intellectual who collaborated closely with her husband, the philosopher and theologian Martin Buber.
  • 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: Barbara Zoellner
Triple: [Christiaan Barnard, spouse, Barbara Zoellner]
Generated description
Barbara Zoellner is best known as the second wife of pioneering South African heart transplant surgeon Christiaan Barnard.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Barbara Zoellner
Target entity description: Barbara Zoellner is best known as the second wife of pioneering South African heart transplant surgeon Christiaan Barnard.
  • A. Annette Ziegler
    Annette Ziegler is an American jurist who serves as the Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
  • B. Barbara Rütting
    Barbara Rütting was a German actress and later author and politician, known for her roles in postwar European cinema and her environmental and animal rights activism.
  • C. Barbara Fuchs
    Barbara Fuchs is a literary scholar known for her work on early modern Spanish and English literature, translation, and cultural exchange.
  • D. Anne Ziegler
    Anne Ziegler was a British soprano and actress best known for her popular duets and stage performances with her husband, tenor Webster Booth, during the mid-20th century.
  • E. Paula Winkler
    Paula Winkler was a German-Jewish writer and intellectual who collaborated closely with her husband, the philosopher and theologian Martin Buber.
  • 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_69d7bdf52b94819096d6f0ba4ab50a98 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96ff2ab60819085561a3120189985 completed April 10, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f746077b288190b8ca7927352a7904 completed May 3, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f749d6ce888190b4a07462e9b8a40e completed May 3, 2026, 1:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f74a2fed2c8190b006575d88c01bdd completed May 3, 2026, 1:14 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:35 p.m.