Triple

T2917419
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Maximilian von Spee E78638 entity
Predicate servedOn P17148 FINISHED
Object SMS Scharnhorst
SMS Scharnhorst was a German Imperial Navy armored cruiser that served as the flagship of Vice Admiral Maximilian von Spee’s East Asia Squadron during World War I.
E309830 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: SMS Scharnhorst | Statement: [Maximilian von Spee, servedOn, SMS Scharnhorst]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: SMS Scharnhorst
Context triple: [Maximilian von Spee, servedOn, SMS Scharnhorst]
  • A. German battleship Scharnhorst
    The German battleship Scharnhorst was a fast, heavily armed World War II Kriegsmarine capital ship known for its Atlantic raiding operations and eventual sinking by the Royal Navy in the Battle of the North Cape.
  • B. German battleship Bismarck
    The German battleship Bismarck was a powerful World War II Kriegsmarine warship famed for sinking HMS Hood and later being hunted down and destroyed by the Royal Navy in the Atlantic.
  • C. German battleship Gneisenau
    The German battleship Gneisenau was a World War II Kriegsmarine capital ship of the Scharnhorst class that conducted Atlantic raiding operations against Allied shipping.
  • D. Deutschland-class battleship
    The Deutschland-class battleship was a group of pre-dreadnought warships built for the Imperial German Navy in the early 20th century, serving as some of Germany's last and most advanced battleships before the dreadnought era.
  • E. German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen
    The German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen was a World War II Kriegsmarine warship famed for its role alongside battleship Bismarck in the Battle of the Denmark Strait and later as a target in postwar nuclear tests.
  • 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: SMS Scharnhorst
Triple: [Maximilian von Spee, servedOn, SMS Scharnhorst]
Generated description
SMS Scharnhorst was a German Imperial Navy armored cruiser that served as the flagship of Vice Admiral Maximilian von Spee’s East Asia Squadron during World War I.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: SMS Scharnhorst
Target entity description: SMS Scharnhorst was a German Imperial Navy armored cruiser that served as the flagship of Vice Admiral Maximilian von Spee’s East Asia Squadron during World War I.
  • A. German battleship Scharnhorst
    The German battleship Scharnhorst was a fast, heavily armed World War II Kriegsmarine capital ship known for its Atlantic raiding operations and eventual sinking by the Royal Navy in the Battle of the North Cape.
  • B. German battleship Bismarck
    The German battleship Bismarck was a powerful World War II Kriegsmarine warship famed for sinking HMS Hood and later being hunted down and destroyed by the Royal Navy in the Atlantic.
  • C. German battleship Gneisenau
    The German battleship Gneisenau was a World War II Kriegsmarine capital ship of the Scharnhorst class that conducted Atlantic raiding operations against Allied shipping.
  • D. Deutschland-class battleship
    The Deutschland-class battleship was a group of pre-dreadnought warships built for the Imperial German Navy in the early 20th century, serving as some of Germany's last and most advanced battleships before the dreadnought era.
  • E. German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen
    The German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen was a World War II Kriegsmarine warship famed for its role alongside battleship Bismarck in the Battle of the Denmark Strait and later as a target in postwar nuclear tests.
  • 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_69ad8b0c2ad081909ff87050ae542bb9 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad96a2bdd88190aa01c26a27f9afbd completed March 8, 2026, 3:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b0562c5b5081908026b3f590b03aca completed March 10, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b0613dfb048190b08b01837088b9dd completed March 10, 2026, 6:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b06514562881909d3b08af898406f7 completed March 10, 2026, 6:38 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:53 p.m.