Triple

T2071490
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject University of Tübingen E44823 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object Wilhelm Schickard
Wilhelm Schickard was a 17th-century German polymath and Lutheran minister best known for designing one of the earliest mechanical calculating machines.
E231542 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: Wilhelm Schickard | Statement: [University of Tübingen, hasNotableAlumnus, Wilhelm Schickard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wilhelm Schickard
Context triple: [University of Tübingen, hasNotableAlumnus, Wilhelm Schickard]
  • A. Wilhelm Keppler
    Wilhelm Keppler was a German industrialist and early economic adviser to Adolf Hitler who became a prominent Nazi official involved in the regime’s economic and industrial policies.
  • B. Willebrord Snellius
    Willebrord Snellius was a Dutch mathematician and astronomer best known for formulating the law that describes how light bends when passing between different media.
  • C. Michael von Faulhaber
    Michael von Faulhaber was a prominent 20th-century German Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Munich known for his influential role in church affairs during the Weimar Republic and Nazi era.
  • D. Wilhelm Ackermann
    Wilhelm Ackermann was a German mathematician known for his work in mathematical logic and the development of the Ackermann function, one of the earliest-discovered examples of a computable but not primitive recursive function.
  • E. Athanasius Kircher
    Athanasius Kircher was a 17th-century German Jesuit scholar and polymath known for his wide-ranging works on subjects such as Egyptology, linguistics, comparative religion, and natural philosophy.
  • 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: Wilhelm Schickard
Triple: [University of Tübingen, hasNotableAlumnus, Wilhelm Schickard]
Generated description
Wilhelm Schickard was a 17th-century German polymath and Lutheran minister best known for designing one of the earliest mechanical calculating machines.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wilhelm Schickard
Target entity description: Wilhelm Schickard was a 17th-century German polymath and Lutheran minister best known for designing one of the earliest mechanical calculating machines.
  • A. Wilhelm Keppler
    Wilhelm Keppler was a German industrialist and early economic adviser to Adolf Hitler who became a prominent Nazi official involved in the regime’s economic and industrial policies.
  • B. Willebrord Snellius
    Willebrord Snellius was a Dutch mathematician and astronomer best known for formulating the law that describes how light bends when passing between different media.
  • C. Michael von Faulhaber
    Michael von Faulhaber was a prominent 20th-century German Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Munich known for his influential role in church affairs during the Weimar Republic and Nazi era.
  • D. Wilhelm Ackermann
    Wilhelm Ackermann was a German mathematician known for his work in mathematical logic and the development of the Ackermann function, one of the earliest-discovered examples of a computable but not primitive recursive function.
  • E. Athanasius Kircher
    Athanasius Kircher was a 17th-century German Jesuit scholar and polymath known for his wide-ranging works on subjects such as Egyptology, linguistics, comparative religion, and natural philosophy.
  • 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_69a88916c2b48190a5ca2e9b12cad3ed completed March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abba0d20bc8190b19a32157f8b1607 completed March 7, 2026, 5:39 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae272bd51881909b7da12925195417 completed March 9, 2026, 1:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae28e6d8fc8190b5c0215607214b41 completed March 9, 2026, 1:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae29556978819082f771e0723c4f0b completed March 9, 2026, 1:58 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.