Triple

T3026753
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gerardus Mercator E82793 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Gerard de Kremer
Gerard de Kremer, better known by his Latinized name Gerardus Mercator, was a 16th-century Flemish cartographer renowned for creating the Mercator projection and greatly advancing the field of mapmaking.
E321731 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: Gerard de Kremer | Statement: [Gerardus Mercator, birthName, Gerard de Kremer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gerard de Kremer
Context triple: [Gerardus Mercator, birthName, Gerard de Kremer]
  • A. Hubert Bruls
    Hubert Bruls is a Dutch politician best known as the long-serving mayor of Nijmegen and a prominent figure in national public safety and crisis management.
  • B. Georges Vantongerloo
    Georges Vantongerloo was a Belgian abstract artist and sculptor associated with early 20th-century geometric abstraction and the De Stijl movement.
  • C. Gerard Houckgeest
    Gerard Houckgeest was a Dutch Golden Age painter renowned for his innovative church interior scenes and architectural perspectives, particularly associated with Delft.
  • D. Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer
    Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer was a prominent 17th-century Dutch admiral of the Anglo-Dutch Wars, renowned for his leadership and bravery at sea.
  • E. Johannes van den Bosch
    Johannes van den Bosch was a 19th-century Dutch colonial administrator and military officer best known for his influential role in shaping economic and governance policies in the Dutch East Indies.
  • 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: Gerard de Kremer
Triple: [Gerardus Mercator, birthName, Gerard de Kremer]
Generated description
Gerard de Kremer, better known by his Latinized name Gerardus Mercator, was a 16th-century Flemish cartographer renowned for creating the Mercator projection and greatly advancing the field of mapmaking.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gerard de Kremer
Target entity description: Gerard de Kremer, better known by his Latinized name Gerardus Mercator, was a 16th-century Flemish cartographer renowned for creating the Mercator projection and greatly advancing the field of mapmaking.
  • A. Hubert Bruls
    Hubert Bruls is a Dutch politician best known as the long-serving mayor of Nijmegen and a prominent figure in national public safety and crisis management.
  • B. Georges Vantongerloo
    Georges Vantongerloo was a Belgian abstract artist and sculptor associated with early 20th-century geometric abstraction and the De Stijl movement.
  • C. Gerard Houckgeest
    Gerard Houckgeest was a Dutch Golden Age painter renowned for his innovative church interior scenes and architectural perspectives, particularly associated with Delft.
  • D. Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer
    Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer was a prominent 17th-century Dutch admiral of the Anglo-Dutch Wars, renowned for his leadership and bravery at sea.
  • E. Johannes van den Bosch
    Johannes van den Bosch was a 19th-century Dutch colonial administrator and military officer best known for his influential role in shaping economic and governance policies in the Dutch East Indies.
  • 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_69ad8b21a62881908ec5dd4fba4a187c completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9abd85348190aba9e40658697665 completed March 8, 2026, 3:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b1deb6dc8c8190a5714894b9ca24a1 completed March 11, 2026, 9:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1df85a39c8190ada558de530e3772 completed March 11, 2026, 9:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1e3e6aeb48190914d62616ea0c7e1 completed March 11, 2026, 9:51 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3 p.m.