Triple

T3480912
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Werner von Siemens E73486 entity
Predicate sibling P363 FINISHED
Object Carl Heinrich von Siemens
Carl Heinrich von Siemens was a German industrialist and businessman who played a key role in expanding the Siemens electrical engineering company internationally in the 19th century.
E364679 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: Carl Heinrich von Siemens | Statement: [Werner von Siemens, sibling, Carl Heinrich von Siemens]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Carl Heinrich von Siemens
Context triple: [Werner von Siemens, sibling, Carl Heinrich von Siemens]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Carl Wilhelm Siemens
    Carl Wilhelm Siemens was a 19th-century German-born British engineer and industrialist renowned for his innovations in steelmaking and furnace technology.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. August Borsig
    August Borsig was a prominent 19th-century German industrialist and engineer best known for founding the Borsig company, one of Europe’s leading locomotive manufacturers.
  • 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: Carl Heinrich von Siemens
Triple: [Werner von Siemens, sibling, Carl Heinrich von Siemens]
Generated description
Carl Heinrich von Siemens was a German industrialist and businessman who played a key role in expanding the Siemens electrical engineering company internationally in the 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Carl Heinrich von Siemens
Target entity description: Carl Heinrich von Siemens was a German industrialist and businessman who played a key role in expanding the Siemens electrical engineering company internationally in the 19th century.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Carl Wilhelm Siemens
    Carl Wilhelm Siemens was a 19th-century German-born British engineer and industrialist renowned for his innovations in steelmaking and furnace technology.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. August Borsig
    August Borsig was a prominent 19th-century German industrialist and engineer best known for founding the Borsig company, one of Europe’s leading locomotive manufacturers.
  • 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_69ad85b3c9b08190857cae74c7f36da9 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbb75850c8190ad02cf2bde8be8a7 completed March 8, 2026, 6:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b37e5efe9c819087fbda6832598c04 completed March 13, 2026, 3:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b37ede876c8190ab8d4b595ebb1af2 completed March 13, 2026, 3:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b37f5574b08190bdde80b47f2cb99c completed March 13, 2026, 3:07 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:17 p.m.