Triple

T3159210
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pasargadae E66063 entity
Predicate excavatedBy P7650 FINISHED
Object Ernst Herzfeld
Ernst Herzfeld was a German archaeologist and Iranologist renowned for his pioneering excavations and research on ancient Persian sites and civilizations.
E332070 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: Ernst Herzfeld | Statement: [Pasargadae, excavatedBy, Ernst Herzfeld]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernst Herzfeld
Context triple: [Pasargadae, excavatedBy, Ernst Herzfeld]
  • A. Robert Koldewey
    Robert Koldewey was a German archaeologist best known for his pioneering early 20th-century excavations that revealed the ancient city of Babylon.
  • B. Aurel Stein
    Aurel Stein was a Hungarian-British archaeologist and explorer renowned for his pioneering expeditions in Central Asia, during which he uncovered important Silk Road manuscripts and archaeological sites.
  • C. Hermann Matern
    Hermann Matern was a prominent German communist politician and functionary in the Socialist Unity Party of East Germany (SED).
  • D. Guido Keil
    Guido Keil was a son of the Portuguese composer and painter Alfredo Keil, likely associated with his father's artistic and cultural milieu.
  • E. Emil Possehl
    Emil Possehl was a German industrialist and philanthropist from Lübeck, best known for building a major iron ore and steel trading empire and for endowing the Possehl Foundation to support his hometown.
  • 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: Ernst Herzfeld
Triple: [Pasargadae, excavatedBy, Ernst Herzfeld]
Generated description
Ernst Herzfeld was a German archaeologist and Iranologist renowned for his pioneering excavations and research on ancient Persian sites and civilizations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernst Herzfeld
Target entity description: Ernst Herzfeld was a German archaeologist and Iranologist renowned for his pioneering excavations and research on ancient Persian sites and civilizations.
  • A. Robert Koldewey
    Robert Koldewey was a German archaeologist best known for his pioneering early 20th-century excavations that revealed the ancient city of Babylon.
  • B. Aurel Stein
    Aurel Stein was a Hungarian-British archaeologist and explorer renowned for his pioneering expeditions in Central Asia, during which he uncovered important Silk Road manuscripts and archaeological sites.
  • C. Hermann Matern
    Hermann Matern was a prominent German communist politician and functionary in the Socialist Unity Party of East Germany (SED).
  • D. Guido Keil
    Guido Keil was a son of the Portuguese composer and painter Alfredo Keil, likely associated with his father's artistic and cultural milieu.
  • E. Emil Possehl
    Emil Possehl was a German industrialist and philanthropist from Lübeck, best known for building a major iron ore and steel trading empire and for endowing the Possehl Foundation to support his hometown.
  • 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_69ad85850c1481908a9e9c6242238de2 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada5ed82a08190a1bdcf18ee593c79 completed March 8, 2026, 4:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b2250a682c8190b01e949f27d6932e completed March 12, 2026, 2:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b22598f9e48190a3d63a3416c95bd9 completed March 12, 2026, 2:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b225f0e0b0819096f8b5f7e7ddd8c3 completed March 12, 2026, 2:33 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:05 p.m.