Triple

T15897024
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Engel E385482 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Ernst Engel
Ernst Engel was a 19th-century German statistician and economist best known for formulating Engel's law, which describes how household expenditure patterns change with income.
E1184027 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: Ernst Engel | Statement: [Engel, hasNotableBearer, Ernst Engel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernst Engel
Context triple: [Engel, hasNotableBearer, Ernst Engel]
  • A. Heinrich Sahm
    Heinrich Sahm was a German lawyer and politician who served as a leading official in the Free City of Danzig and later as mayor of Berlin during the interwar period.
  • B. Gustav von Schmoller
    Gustav von Schmoller was a leading 19th-century German economist and social reformer who became the foremost figure of the German historical school of economics.
  • C. Werner Sombart
    Werner Sombart was a German economist and sociologist known for his influential work on capitalism’s development, his role in the German Historical School, and his analyses of modern bourgeois society.
  • D. Silvio Gesell
    Silvio Gesell was a German-Argentine economist and social reformer best known for proposing "free money" and demurrage-based currency as part of his broader theory of free economy.
  • E. William S. Heckscher
    William S. Heckscher was a German-born art historian and iconographer known for his influential scholarship on Renaissance art and emblem studies.
  • 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: Ernst Engel
Triple: [Engel, hasNotableBearer, Ernst Engel]
Generated description
Ernst Engel was a 19th-century German statistician and economist best known for formulating Engel's law, which describes how household expenditure patterns change with income.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernst Engel
Target entity description: Ernst Engel was a 19th-century German statistician and economist best known for formulating Engel's law, which describes how household expenditure patterns change with income.
  • A. Heinrich Sahm
    Heinrich Sahm was a German lawyer and politician who served as a leading official in the Free City of Danzig and later as mayor of Berlin during the interwar period.
  • B. Gustav von Schmoller
    Gustav von Schmoller was a leading 19th-century German economist and social reformer who became the foremost figure of the German historical school of economics.
  • C. Werner Sombart
    Werner Sombart was a German economist and sociologist known for his influential work on capitalism’s development, his role in the German Historical School, and his analyses of modern bourgeois society.
  • D. Silvio Gesell
    Silvio Gesell was a German-Argentine economist and social reformer best known for proposing "free money" and demurrage-based currency as part of his broader theory of free economy.
  • E. William S. Heckscher
    William S. Heckscher was a German-born art historian and iconographer known for his influential scholarship on Renaissance art and emblem studies.
  • 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_69d86da5b800819083a31be937d738b0 completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e15639c9748190b1115f74cbd61330 completed April 16, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffb5a1b1548190a8579cebf9e71121 completed May 9, 2026, 10:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffb62f3d8881908ede4a9a4b53bef2 completed May 9, 2026, 10:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffb6f3154481909632913f4d7cfdba completed May 9, 2026, 10:36 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:51 a.m.