Triple

T16852170
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject BBC Brown Boveri E409700 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Walter Boveri
Walter Boveri was a Swiss industrialist and co-founder of the major electrical engineering company Brown, Boveri & Cie (later part of ABB).
E1236238 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: Walter Boveri | Statement: [BBC Brown Boveri, foundedBy, Walter Boveri]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Boveri
Context triple: [BBC Brown Boveri, foundedBy, Walter Boveri]
  • A. Erich von Tschermak
    Erich von Tschermak was an Austrian agronomist and plant breeder known as one of the three scientists who independently rediscovered Gregor Mendel’s foundational work on heredity around 1900.
  • B. Heinrich Doehle
    Heinrich Doehle was a Nazi German official who served in high-level administrative roles within the National Socialist Party apparatus during the Third Reich.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Wilhelm Roux
    Wilhelm Roux was a pioneering German embryologist and one of the founders of experimental developmental biology, known for his work on how cells specialize during early embryonic development.
  • E. Friedrich Gogarten
    Friedrich Gogarten was a German Protestant theologian associated with the neo-orthodox movement, known for his critiques of liberal theology and his emphasis on the existential encounter with God.
  • 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: Walter Boveri
Triple: [BBC Brown Boveri, foundedBy, Walter Boveri]
Generated description
Walter Boveri was a Swiss industrialist and co-founder of the major electrical engineering company Brown, Boveri & Cie (later part of ABB).
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Boveri
Target entity description: Walter Boveri was a Swiss industrialist and co-founder of the major electrical engineering company Brown, Boveri & Cie (later part of ABB).
  • A. Erich von Tschermak
    Erich von Tschermak was an Austrian agronomist and plant breeder known as one of the three scientists who independently rediscovered Gregor Mendel’s foundational work on heredity around 1900.
  • B. Heinrich Doehle
    Heinrich Doehle was a Nazi German official who served in high-level administrative roles within the National Socialist Party apparatus during the Third Reich.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Wilhelm Roux
    Wilhelm Roux was a pioneering German embryologist and one of the founders of experimental developmental biology, known for his work on how cells specialize during early embryonic development.
  • E. Friedrich Gogarten
    Friedrich Gogarten was a German Protestant theologian associated with the neo-orthodox movement, known for his critiques of liberal theology and his emphasis on the existential encounter with God.
  • 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_69d88395e6c88190b22730f335107c14 completed April 10, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3b37abadc81909d02d329403497d6 completed April 18, 2026, 4:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00bb216fac81909d401c6b9911d1e0 completed May 10, 2026, 5:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00bb9b2b1881908f9f5c3dd1a2d500 completed May 10, 2026, 5:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00bc3a4b888190bd190b9330e2777d completed May 10, 2026, 5:11 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:24 a.m.