Triple

T2971210
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt E80283 entity
Predicate employerOf P7 FINISHED
Object Ferdinand Braun
Ferdinand Braun was a German physicist and Nobel laureate best known for his pioneering work on wireless telegraphy and the development of the cathode-ray tube.
E318936 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: Ferdinand Braun | Statement: [Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt, employerOf, Ferdinand Braun]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ferdinand Braun
Context triple: [Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt, employerOf, Ferdinand Braun]
  • A. Friedrich Braun
    Friedrich Braun was a German civil servant best known as the father of Eva Braun, the longtime companion and later wife of Adolf Hitler.
  • B. Julius Plücker
    Julius Plücker was a 19th-century German mathematician and physicist known for his pioneering work in analytic and projective geometry as well as early contributions to spectroscopy.
  • C. Werner von Siemens
    Werner von Siemens was a pioneering 19th-century German inventor and industrialist who founded the electrical engineering company Siemens and made major contributions to telegraphy and electrical technology.
  • D. Karl von Steinmetz
    Karl von Steinmetz was a Prussian field marshal noted for his leadership in the Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian Wars.
  • E. Henry D. Paschen
    Henry D. Paschen was an American construction executive best known as the husband of pioneering Native American ballerina Maria Tallchief.
  • 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: Ferdinand Braun
Triple: [Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt, employerOf, Ferdinand Braun]
Generated description
Ferdinand Braun was a German physicist and Nobel laureate best known for his pioneering work on wireless telegraphy and the development of the cathode-ray tube.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ferdinand Braun
Target entity description: Ferdinand Braun was a German physicist and Nobel laureate best known for his pioneering work on wireless telegraphy and the development of the cathode-ray tube.
  • A. Friedrich Braun
    Friedrich Braun was a German civil servant best known as the father of Eva Braun, the longtime companion and later wife of Adolf Hitler.
  • B. Julius Plücker
    Julius Plücker was a 19th-century German mathematician and physicist known for his pioneering work in analytic and projective geometry as well as early contributions to spectroscopy.
  • C. Werner von Siemens
    Werner von Siemens was a pioneering 19th-century German inventor and industrialist who founded the electrical engineering company Siemens and made major contributions to telegraphy and electrical technology.
  • D. Karl von Steinmetz
    Karl von Steinmetz was a Prussian field marshal noted for his leadership in the Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian Wars.
  • E. Henry D. Paschen
    Henry D. Paschen was an American construction executive best known as the husband of pioneering Native American ballerina Maria Tallchief.
  • 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_69ad8b14ffe881908ffed62f9595c867 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9973ed6881908f11f49ca2e171df completed March 8, 2026, 3:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b12e27863881909c1c4b26e030e4bf completed March 11, 2026, 8:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b12ec0eeb08190943ca528fdcf2cf2 completed March 11, 2026, 8:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1d2cf78e88190b548e75cdaca6a66 completed March 11, 2026, 8:38 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:58 p.m.