Triple

T4199652
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Eddy Merckx E86034 entity
Predicate hasChild P369 FINISHED
Object Axel Merckx
Axel Merckx is a Belgian former professional road cyclist and Olympic bronze medalist who later became a directeur sportif and team manager.
E420468 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: Axel Merckx | Statement: [Eddy Merckx, hasChild, Axel Merckx]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Axel Merckx
Context triple: [Eddy Merckx, hasChild, Axel Merckx]
  • A. Eddy Merckx
    Eddy Merckx is a legendary Belgian cyclist widely regarded as one of the greatest of all time, known for his dominance in Grand Tours and one-day classics during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • B. Alexandre Gendebien
    Alexandre Gendebien was a prominent 19th-century Belgian lawyer and liberal politician who played a leading role in the movement that led to Belgium’s independence.
  • C. Jacques Anquetil
    Jacques Anquetil was a pioneering French professional cyclist renowned for being the first rider to win the Tour de France five times and for his exceptional time-trialing ability.
  • D. Rik Van Looy
    Rik Van Looy is a legendary Belgian professional cyclist, nicknamed the "Emperor of Herentals," renowned for winning all five Monuments and multiple classics during the 1950s and 1960s.
  • E. Roger De Vlaeminck
    Roger De Vlaeminck is a legendary Belgian professional cyclist renowned as one of the greatest Classics specialists in history, particularly dominant in the cobbled Monuments.
  • 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: Axel Merckx
Triple: [Eddy Merckx, hasChild, Axel Merckx]
Generated description
Axel Merckx is a Belgian former professional road cyclist and Olympic bronze medalist who later became a directeur sportif and team manager.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Axel Merckx
Target entity description: Axel Merckx is a Belgian former professional road cyclist and Olympic bronze medalist who later became a directeur sportif and team manager.
  • A. Eddy Merckx
    Eddy Merckx is a legendary Belgian cyclist widely regarded as one of the greatest of all time, known for his dominance in Grand Tours and one-day classics during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • B. Alexandre Gendebien
    Alexandre Gendebien was a prominent 19th-century Belgian lawyer and liberal politician who played a leading role in the movement that led to Belgium’s independence.
  • C. Jacques Anquetil
    Jacques Anquetil was a pioneering French professional cyclist renowned for being the first rider to win the Tour de France five times and for his exceptional time-trialing ability.
  • D. Rik Van Looy
    Rik Van Looy is a legendary Belgian professional cyclist, nicknamed the "Emperor of Herentals," renowned for winning all five Monuments and multiple classics during the 1950s and 1960s.
  • E. Roger De Vlaeminck
    Roger De Vlaeminck is a legendary Belgian professional cyclist renowned as one of the greatest Classics specialists in history, particularly dominant in the cobbled Monuments.
  • 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_69aed93b89f48190a31f6d57c760e42f completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af0363bbb8819093f396afe91972e2 completed March 9, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b58a12c11481908033229ecf90c9f9 completed March 14, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b58e053adc8190909d92de845dd6df completed March 14, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b58f219a708190af631335027532e3 completed March 14, 2026, 4:38 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:49 p.m.