Triple

T1616334
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Würzburg E34725 entity
Predicate historicalEvent P259 FINISHED
Object Würzburg witch trials
The Würzburg witch trials were a series of large-scale, brutal persecutions and executions for alleged witchcraft in early 17th-century Germany, among the most extensive in European history.
E182817 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: Würzburg witch trials | Statement: [Würzburg, historicalEvent, Würzburg witch trials]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Würzburg witch trials
Context triple: [Würzburg, historicalEvent, Würzburg witch trials]
  • A. Pendle witch trials
    The Pendle witch trials were a series of notorious early 17th-century English witchcraft prosecutions in Lancashire that led to multiple executions and became some of the most famous witch trials in British history.
  • B. European witch hunts
    European witch hunts were a series of widespread persecutions, trials, and executions of people accused of witchcraft across Europe from roughly the 15th to 18th centuries, driven by religious, social, and political tensions.
  • C. Affair of the Poisons
    The Affair of the Poisons was a major 17th-century French scandal involving accusations of witchcraft, poisonings, and black masses that implicated members of Louis XIV’s court.
  • D. Bad Mergentheim
    Bad Mergentheim is a historic spa town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, renowned for its mineral springs and picturesque setting in the Tauber Valley.
  • E. Hannah Goslar
    Hannah Goslar was a German-born Jewish Holocaust survivor, childhood friend of Anne Frank, and later a nurse and educator in Israel whose testimony became an important part of Holocaust remembrance.
  • 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: Würzburg witch trials
Triple: [Würzburg, historicalEvent, Würzburg witch trials]
Generated description
The Würzburg witch trials were a series of large-scale, brutal persecutions and executions for alleged witchcraft in early 17th-century Germany, among the most extensive in European history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Würzburg witch trials
Target entity description: The Würzburg witch trials were a series of large-scale, brutal persecutions and executions for alleged witchcraft in early 17th-century Germany, among the most extensive in European history.
  • A. Pendle witch trials
    The Pendle witch trials were a series of notorious early 17th-century English witchcraft prosecutions in Lancashire that led to multiple executions and became some of the most famous witch trials in British history.
  • B. European witch hunts
    European witch hunts were a series of widespread persecutions, trials, and executions of people accused of witchcraft across Europe from roughly the 15th to 18th centuries, driven by religious, social, and political tensions.
  • C. Affair of the Poisons
    The Affair of the Poisons was a major 17th-century French scandal involving accusations of witchcraft, poisonings, and black masses that implicated members of Louis XIV’s court.
  • D. Bad Mergentheim
    Bad Mergentheim is a historic spa town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, renowned for its mineral springs and picturesque setting in the Tauber Valley.
  • E. Hannah Goslar
    Hannah Goslar was a German-born Jewish Holocaust survivor, childhood friend of Anne Frank, and later a nurse and educator in Israel whose testimony became an important part of Holocaust remembrance.
  • 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_69a885ffc5ec819091afa325d5f9611c completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a9099049e0819099763ecb09fb4f57 completed March 5, 2026, 4:41 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad51cd2e54819086924378792eb2e3 completed March 8, 2026, 10:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad5248af2881909755ae87b4cd0041 completed March 8, 2026, 10:41 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad52b3dcf081909e73fba891e985b2 completed March 8, 2026, 10:43 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:28 p.m.