Triple

T1439363
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bornholmer Strasse crossing E31033 entity
Predicate controlledBy P1715 FINISHED
Object East German border guards
East German border guards were security personnel of the German Democratic Republic tasked with monitoring and enforcing the heavily fortified inner German border and Berlin Wall, often preventing citizens from fleeing to the West.
E166408 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: East German border guards | Statement: [Bornholmer Strasse crossing, controlledBy, East German border guards]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: East German border guards
Context triple: [Bornholmer Strasse crossing, controlledBy, East German border guards]
  • A. Czechoslovak border guards
    Czechoslovak border guards were the state security forces responsible for patrolling and enforcing the heavily fortified frontiers of communist Czechoslovakia, particularly along its western borders during the Cold War.
  • B. inner German border
    The inner German border was the heavily fortified frontier that separated East and West Germany during the Cold War, symbolizing the division of Europe.
  • C. Checkpoint Charlie (border crossing to West Berlin)
    Checkpoint Charlie was the most famous crossing point between East and West Berlin during the Cold War, symbolizing the division between the Eastern Bloc and the Western world.
  • D. Border Guards
    Border Guards is a Saudi military security force responsible for protecting the kingdom’s land and maritime borders and preventing illegal crossings and smuggling.
  • E. Westwall
    Westwall is the German name for the Siegfried Line, a massive system of defensive fortifications built by Nazi Germany along its western border before and during World War II.
  • 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: East German border guards
Triple: [Bornholmer Strasse crossing, controlledBy, East German border guards]
Generated description
East German border guards were security personnel of the German Democratic Republic tasked with monitoring and enforcing the heavily fortified inner German border and Berlin Wall, often preventing citizens from fleeing to the West.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: East German border guards
Target entity description: East German border guards were security personnel of the German Democratic Republic tasked with monitoring and enforcing the heavily fortified inner German border and Berlin Wall, often preventing citizens from fleeing to the West.
  • A. Czechoslovak border guards
    Czechoslovak border guards were the state security forces responsible for patrolling and enforcing the heavily fortified frontiers of communist Czechoslovakia, particularly along its western borders during the Cold War.
  • B. inner German border
    The inner German border was the heavily fortified frontier that separated East and West Germany during the Cold War, symbolizing the division of Europe.
  • C. Checkpoint Charlie (border crossing to West Berlin)
    Checkpoint Charlie was the most famous crossing point between East and West Berlin during the Cold War, symbolizing the division between the Eastern Bloc and the Western world.
  • D. Border Guards
    Border Guards is a Saudi military security force responsible for protecting the kingdom’s land and maritime borders and preventing illegal crossings and smuggling.
  • E. Westwall
    Westwall is the German name for the Siegfried Line, a massive system of defensive fortifications built by Nazi Germany along its western border before and during World War II.
  • 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_69a4991633388190a4d61b5a98aa407a completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c506d5ac8190b4c5b394c6d3f414 completed March 1, 2026, 11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad08ba2cf88190a859bb0974761968 completed March 8, 2026, 5:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad0bc943488190892a88f4c0e392b9 completed March 8, 2026, 5:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad0c6abed48190815252fabc992c48 completed March 8, 2026, 5:43 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8 p.m.