Triple

T16685914
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wilhelm Eduard Weber E405460 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object Weber–Gauss telegraph
The Weber–Gauss telegraph was an early 19th-century electromagnetic telegraph system developed by Wilhelm Eduard Weber and Carl Friedrich Gauss, notable as one of the first practical long-distance telegraphy devices.
E1227477 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: Weber–Gauss telegraph | Statement: [Wilhelm Eduard Weber, knownFor, Weber–Gauss telegraph]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Weber–Gauss telegraph
Context triple: [Wilhelm Eduard Weber, knownFor, Weber–Gauss telegraph]
  • A. Hughes telegraph system
    The Hughes telegraph system was an early electrical telegraph apparatus that used a printing mechanism to automatically record messages, significantly improving the speed and legibility of telegraphic communication in the 19th century.
  • B. Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph
    The Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph was an early electrical telegraph system developed in the 1830s that used multiple needles pointing to letters on a display, significantly advancing long-distance communication in Britain.
  • C. Télégraphe
    Télégraphe is a Paris Métro station in the 20th arrondissement, named after the nearby historical telegraph tower site.
  • D. Hertzian waves
    Hertzian waves are early experimentally demonstrated electromagnetic waves that confirmed James Clerk Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetism and paved the way for modern radio communication.
  • E. transcontinental telegraph
    The transcontinental telegraph was the first coast-to-coast telegraph system in the United States, enabling near-instant communication across the country and rendering long-distance mail services like the Pony Express obsolete.
  • 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: Weber–Gauss telegraph
Triple: [Wilhelm Eduard Weber, knownFor, Weber–Gauss telegraph]
Generated description
The Weber–Gauss telegraph was an early 19th-century electromagnetic telegraph system developed by Wilhelm Eduard Weber and Carl Friedrich Gauss, notable as one of the first practical long-distance telegraphy devices.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Weber–Gauss telegraph
Target entity description: The Weber–Gauss telegraph was an early 19th-century electromagnetic telegraph system developed by Wilhelm Eduard Weber and Carl Friedrich Gauss, notable as one of the first practical long-distance telegraphy devices.
  • A. Hughes telegraph system
    The Hughes telegraph system was an early electrical telegraph apparatus that used a printing mechanism to automatically record messages, significantly improving the speed and legibility of telegraphic communication in the 19th century.
  • B. Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph
    The Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph was an early electrical telegraph system developed in the 1830s that used multiple needles pointing to letters on a display, significantly advancing long-distance communication in Britain.
  • C. Télégraphe
    Télégraphe is a Paris Métro station in the 20th arrondissement, named after the nearby historical telegraph tower site.
  • D. Hertzian waves
    Hertzian waves are early experimentally demonstrated electromagnetic waves that confirmed James Clerk Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetism and paved the way for modern radio communication.
  • E. transcontinental telegraph
    The transcontinental telegraph was the first coast-to-coast telegraph system in the United States, enabling near-instant communication across the country and rendering long-distance mail services like the Pony Express obsolete.
  • 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_69d8838c28748190b3f5967c743940ab completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e37ea550c0819085bd36c44237a61a completed April 18, 2026, 12:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a008a43f6a08190913ca123a2377f95 completed May 10, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a008b001c988190b0ddec3be0ed6fd0 completed May 10, 2026, 1:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a008ba8227881908b1ac6e30d2e7c32 completed May 10, 2026, 1:44 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:19 a.m.