Triple

T1478656
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ernest Rutherford E30899 entity
Predicate student P7251 FINISHED
Object Hans Geiger
Hans Geiger was a German physicist best known for co-inventing the Geiger counter, a device for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation.
E174060 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: Hans Geiger | Statement: [Ernest Rutherford, student, Hans Geiger]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hans Geiger
Context triple: [Ernest Rutherford, student, Hans Geiger]
  • A. Johannes Stark
    Johannes Stark was a German physicist and Nobel laureate known for discovering the Stark effect, the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields.
  • B. Gustav Hertz
    Gustav Hertz was a German physicist and Nobel laureate best known for the Franck–Hertz experiment, which provided key evidence for the quantization of energy levels in atoms.
  • C. Max von Laue
    Max von Laue was a German physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his discovery of X-ray diffraction in crystals, which provided crucial evidence for the wave nature of X-rays and the atomic structure of matter.
  • D. Otto Hahn
    Otto Hahn was a German chemist and Nobel laureate renowned as a pioneer of nuclear chemistry and co-discoverer of nuclear fission.
  • E. Otto Frisch
    Otto Frisch was an Austrian-British physicist best known for co-discovering nuclear fission and contributing to the early development of atomic weapons 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: Hans Geiger
Triple: [Ernest Rutherford, student, Hans Geiger]
Generated description
Hans Geiger was a German physicist best known for co-inventing the Geiger counter, a device for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hans Geiger
Target entity description: Hans Geiger was a German physicist best known for co-inventing the Geiger counter, a device for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation.
  • A. Johannes Stark
    Johannes Stark was a German physicist and Nobel laureate known for discovering the Stark effect, the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields.
  • B. Gustav Hertz
    Gustav Hertz was a German physicist and Nobel laureate best known for the Franck–Hertz experiment, which provided key evidence for the quantization of energy levels in atoms.
  • C. Max von Laue
    Max von Laue was a German physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his discovery of X-ray diffraction in crystals, which provided crucial evidence for the wave nature of X-rays and the atomic structure of matter.
  • D. Otto Hahn
    Otto Hahn was a German chemist and Nobel laureate renowned as a pioneer of nuclear chemistry and co-discoverer of nuclear fission.
  • E. Otto Frisch
    Otto Frisch was an Austrian-British physicist best known for co-discovering nuclear fission and contributing to the early development of atomic weapons 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_69a498fe55a88190ab7f9e40ace88e49 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c6739d2481909ea8d8e075f62cf3 completed March 1, 2026, 11:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad2940a44c8190967a62781cca0306 completed March 8, 2026, 7:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad2a1742d48190a82c1fc8c81d5c21 completed March 8, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad2a9e50888190bab83785f11135ea completed March 8, 2026, 7:51 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:11 p.m.