Triple

T2332441
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Richard Courant E44231 entity
Predicate coAuthor P398 FINISHED
Object Fritz John
Fritz John was a German-American mathematician renowned for his contributions to partial differential equations, calculus of variations, and functional analysis.
 E256919 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: Fritz John | Statement: [Richard Courant, coAuthor, Fritz John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Fritz John
Context triple: [Richard Courant, coAuthor, Fritz John]
  • A. Herbert Busemann
    Herbert Busemann was a German-American mathematician known for his influential work in geometry, particularly convex and metric geometry, and for his contributions to the axiomatic foundations of geometry.
  • B. Wilhelm Wirtinger
    Wilhelm Wirtinger was an Austrian mathematician known for his contributions to complex analysis, algebraic geometry, and knot theory.
  • C. William Karush
    William Karush was an American mathematician best known for his early formulation of the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions, a cornerstone of nonlinear optimization theory.
  • D. Wilhelm Blaschke
    Wilhelm Blaschke was a prominent Austrian mathematician known for his influential work in differential and integral geometry and for mentoring several leading 20th-century geometers.
  • E. Constantin Carathéodory
    Constantin Carathéodory was a prominent Greek-German mathematician known for his influential work in real analysis, the calculus of variations, and the foundations of thermodynamics.
  • 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: Fritz John
Triple: [Richard Courant, coAuthor, Fritz John]
Generated description
Fritz John was a German-American mathematician renowned for his contributions to partial differential equations, calculus of variations, and functional analysis.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Fritz John
Target entity description: Fritz John was a German-American mathematician renowned for his contributions to partial differential equations, calculus of variations, and functional analysis.
  • A. Herbert Busemann
    Herbert Busemann was a German-American mathematician known for his influential work in geometry, particularly convex and metric geometry, and for his contributions to the axiomatic foundations of geometry.
  • B. Wilhelm Wirtinger
    Wilhelm Wirtinger was an Austrian mathematician known for his contributions to complex analysis, algebraic geometry, and knot theory.
  • C. William Karush
    William Karush was an American mathematician best known for his early formulation of the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions, a cornerstone of nonlinear optimization theory.
  • D. Wilhelm Blaschke
    Wilhelm Blaschke was a prominent Austrian mathematician known for his influential work in differential and integral geometry and for mentoring several leading 20th-century geometers.
  • E. Constantin Carathéodory
    Constantin Carathéodory was a prominent Greek-German mathematician known for his influential work in real analysis, the calculus of variations, and the foundations of thermodynamics.
  • 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_69a889132b488190bbb43ad4780ddd92 completed March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc66bd0f08190aad5f640cfa1c372 completed March 7, 2026, 6:32 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae89773c88819087a294d7c0f90f73 completed March 9, 2026, 8:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae8ae2ab7481909d265e56369f68e2 completed March 9, 2026, 8:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae8b6c553481908b2b7b1f880b814d completed March 9, 2026, 8:57 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:51 p.m.