Triple

T16494953
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Turritopsis dohrnii E400657 entity
Predicate describedBy P264 FINISHED
Object August Friedrich Leopold Weismann
August Friedrich Leopold Weismann was a pioneering 19th-century German biologist and evolutionary theorist best known for formulating the germ plasm theory, which distinguished hereditary material from the rest of the body and strongly influenced modern genetics.
E1216439 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: August Friedrich Leopold Weismann | Statement: [Turritopsis dohrnii, describedBy, August Friedrich Leopold Weismann]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: August Friedrich Leopold Weismann
Context triple: [Turritopsis dohrnii, describedBy, August Friedrich Leopold Weismann]
  • A. Hugo de Vries
    Hugo de Vries was a Dutch botanist and early geneticist who helped establish modern genetics by independently formulating mutation theory and contributing to the rediscovery of Gregor Mendel’s work.
  • B. Theodosius Dobzhansky
    Theodosius Dobzhansky was a pioneering 20th-century geneticist and evolutionary biologist whose work integrating genetics with natural selection helped lay the foundations of the modern evolutionary synthesis.
  • C. Wilhelm Weinberg
    Wilhelm Weinberg was a German physician and geneticist who independently formulated the population genetics equilibrium now known as the Hardy–Weinberg principle.
  • D. Jacques Loeb
    Jacques Loeb was a pioneering German-American physiologist and biologist known for his influential work in experimental biology and the study of artificial parthenogenesis.
  • E. Jakob Heinrich von Flemming
    Jakob Heinrich von Flemming was a prominent early 18th-century Saxon-Polish field marshal and statesman who played a key role in the military and political affairs of the Great Northern War.
  • 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: August Friedrich Leopold Weismann
Triple: [Turritopsis dohrnii, describedBy, August Friedrich Leopold Weismann]
Generated description
August Friedrich Leopold Weismann was a pioneering 19th-century German biologist and evolutionary theorist best known for formulating the germ plasm theory, which distinguished hereditary material from the rest of the body and strongly influenced modern genetics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: August Friedrich Leopold Weismann
Target entity description: August Friedrich Leopold Weismann was a pioneering 19th-century German biologist and evolutionary theorist best known for formulating the germ plasm theory, which distinguished hereditary material from the rest of the body and strongly influenced modern genetics.
  • A. Hugo de Vries
    Hugo de Vries was a Dutch botanist and early geneticist who helped establish modern genetics by independently formulating mutation theory and contributing to the rediscovery of Gregor Mendel’s work.
  • B. Theodosius Dobzhansky
    Theodosius Dobzhansky was a pioneering 20th-century geneticist and evolutionary biologist whose work integrating genetics with natural selection helped lay the foundations of the modern evolutionary synthesis.
  • C. Wilhelm Weinberg
    Wilhelm Weinberg was a German physician and geneticist who independently formulated the population genetics equilibrium now known as the Hardy–Weinberg principle.
  • D. Jacques Loeb
    Jacques Loeb was a pioneering German-American physiologist and biologist known for his influential work in experimental biology and the study of artificial parthenogenesis.
  • E. Jakob Heinrich von Flemming
    Jakob Heinrich von Flemming was a prominent early 18th-century Saxon-Polish field marshal and statesman who played a key role in the military and political affairs of the Great Northern War.
  • 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_69d88381f6148190819958a038be990e completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e32e3276b88190946a669b4d893a54 completed April 18, 2026, 7:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a005828849481909e95c5822ed6f74d completed May 10, 2026, 10:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00596390e4819091909806772afa1a completed May 10, 2026, 10:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a005a0baef08190b77423fe81a7a11c completed May 10, 2026, 10:12 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:14 a.m.