Triple

T1428723
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harold Davenport E30393 entity
Predicate doctoralStudent P167 FINISHED
Object Theodor Estermann
Theodor Estermann was a German-British mathematician known for his contributions to analytic number theory and his work on the distribution of prime numbers.
 E234355 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: Theodor Estermann | Statement: [Harold Davenport, doctoralStudent, Theodor Estermann]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Theodor Estermann
Context triple: [Harold Davenport, doctoralStudent, Theodor Estermann]
  • A. Emil Wolf
    Emil Wolf was a Czech-American physicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to physical optics and co-authoring the seminal textbook "Principles of Optics."
  • B. Gustav Born
    Gustav Born was a British pharmacologist and medical researcher known for his pioneering work on blood platelets and thrombosis.
  • C. Philipp Frank
    Philipp Frank was an Austrian physicist and philosopher best known as a leading member of the Vienna Circle and an influential proponent of logical positivism.
  • D. Gustav Wilhelm Wolff
    Gustav Wilhelm Wolff was a German-born British shipbuilder and politician best known as the co-founder of the Belfast shipbuilding firm Harland and Wolff, which built many famous ocean liners including the RMS Titanic.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Theodor Estermann
Triple: [Harold Davenport, doctoralStudent, Theodor Estermann]
Generated description
Theodor Estermann was a German-British mathematician known for his contributions to analytic number theory and his work on the distribution of prime numbers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Theodor Estermann
Target entity description: Theodor Estermann was a German-British mathematician known for his contributions to analytic number theory and his work on the distribution of prime numbers.
  • A. Emil Wolf
    Emil Wolf was a Czech-American physicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to physical optics and co-authoring the seminal textbook "Principles of Optics."
  • B. Gustav Born
    Gustav Born was a British pharmacologist and medical researcher known for his pioneering work on blood platelets and thrombosis.
  • C. Philipp Frank
    Philipp Frank was an Austrian physicist and philosopher best known as a leading member of the Vienna Circle and an influential proponent of logical positivism.
  • D. Gustav Wilhelm Wolff
    Gustav Wilhelm Wolff was a German-born British shipbuilder and politician best known as the co-founder of the Belfast shipbuilding firm Harland and Wolff, which built many famous ocean liners including the RMS Titanic.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69a498fb823c8190a67ce4c4837e641a completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c4d9575881908bb58598e5a80590 completed March 1, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae3037944c8190b2ced5f5ca539260 completed March 9, 2026, 2:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae3149922c819085fb2af51d53304c completed March 9, 2026, 2:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae31a67eb08190a3ef64e83301fabc completed March 9, 2026, 2:34 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8 p.m.