Triple

T2841779
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Velikiye Luki offensive E62485 entity
Predicate opposingCommander P1698 FINISHED
Object Theodor Scherer
Theodor Scherer was a German Wehrmacht general during World War II, known for commanding encircled forces on the Eastern Front, particularly in defensive battles against Soviet offensives.
E652405 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: Theodor Scherer | Statement: [Velikiye Luki offensive, opposingCommander, Theodor Scherer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theodor Scherer
Context triple: [Velikiye Luki offensive, opposingCommander, Theodor Scherer]
  • A. Karl Pfänder
    Karl Pfänder was a 19th-century German communist and close associate of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels who contributed to early socialist and workers’ movements.
  • B. Wilhelm Siegling
    Wilhelm Siegling was a German linguist and philologist known for his pioneering work on the Tocharian languages and their classification within the Indo-European language family.
  • C. Ernst Göhner
    Ernst Göhner was a prominent Swiss entrepreneur and industrialist known for building a major construction and real estate empire and for his significant philanthropic legacy.
  • D. Hermann Weingärtner
    Hermann Weingärtner was a German gymnast who became one of the most successful competitors at the inaugural modern Olympic Games in 1896, winning multiple medals across several events.
  • E. Gerhard Doerfer
    Gerhard Doerfer was a German linguist renowned for his critical work on Turkic and other Central Asian languages and for his influential rejection of the proposed Altaic language family.
  • 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: Theodor Scherer
Triple: [Velikiye Luki offensive, opposingCommander, Theodor Scherer]
Generated description
Theodor Scherer was a German Wehrmacht general during World War II, known for commanding encircled forces on the Eastern Front, particularly in defensive battles against Soviet offensives.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theodor Scherer
Target entity description: Theodor Scherer was a German Wehrmacht general during World War II, known for commanding encircled forces on the Eastern Front, particularly in defensive battles against Soviet offensives.
  • A. Karl Pfänder
    Karl Pfänder was a 19th-century German communist and close associate of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels who contributed to early socialist and workers’ movements.
  • B. Wilhelm Siegling
    Wilhelm Siegling was a German linguist and philologist known for his pioneering work on the Tocharian languages and their classification within the Indo-European language family.
  • C. Ernst Göhner
    Ernst Göhner was a prominent Swiss entrepreneur and industrialist known for building a major construction and real estate empire and for his significant philanthropic legacy.
  • D. Hermann Weingärtner
    Hermann Weingärtner was a German gymnast who became one of the most successful competitors at the inaugural modern Olympic Games in 1896, winning multiple medals across several events.
  • E. Gerhard Doerfer
    Gerhard Doerfer was a German linguist renowned for his critical work on Turkic and other Central Asian languages and for his influential rejection of the proposed Altaic language family.
  • 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_69ab4c3d16bc81908b3a1c98fbd287fe completed March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdf16d0c08190bb8de4a4160b4414 completed March 7, 2026, 8:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7d3629e008190b1ecb996355575fc completed March 28, 2026, 1:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7d55ea8d88190b023d3a2deef6c29 completed March 28, 2026, 1:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7d5b515f8819092873ef17d75525d completed March 28, 2026, 1:20 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:01 p.m.