Triple

T4591209
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cornelis E103491 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Cornelis de Houtman
Cornelis de Houtman was a Dutch explorer and navigator credited with leading the first Dutch voyage to Indonesia, which opened the sea route for the Dutch East India trade in the late 16th century.
E454746 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: Cornelis de Houtman | Statement: [Cornelis, hasNotableBearer, Cornelis de Houtman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cornelis de Houtman
Context triple: [Cornelis, hasNotableBearer, Cornelis de Houtman]
  • A. Aeltgen Willems van Linschoten
    Aeltgen Willems van Linschoten was the wife of Dutch Golden Age painter Egbert van der Poel and a member of a 17th-century Delft artistic milieu.
  • B. Willem Barentsz
    Willem Barentsz was a Dutch navigator and explorer best known for his late 16th-century Arctic voyages in search of a Northeast Passage, during which he extensively charted regions around Novaya Zemlya and Spitsbergen.
  • C. Jan Pieterszoon Coen
    Jan Pieterszoon Coen was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator and merchant best known for founding Batavia (modern Jakarta) and ruthlessly consolidating Dutch power in the East Indies for the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
  • D. Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer
    Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer was a pioneering Dutch navigator and cartographer best known for his influential late 16th-century sea atlases that greatly advanced European maritime navigation.
  • E. Adriaan Metius
    Adriaan Metius was a Dutch mathematician and astronomer of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, known for his work on geometry, surveying, and approximations of π.
  • 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: Cornelis de Houtman
Triple: [Cornelis, hasNotableBearer, Cornelis de Houtman]
Generated description
Cornelis de Houtman was a Dutch explorer and navigator credited with leading the first Dutch voyage to Indonesia, which opened the sea route for the Dutch East India trade in the late 16th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cornelis de Houtman
Target entity description: Cornelis de Houtman was a Dutch explorer and navigator credited with leading the first Dutch voyage to Indonesia, which opened the sea route for the Dutch East India trade in the late 16th century.
  • A. Aeltgen Willems van Linschoten
    Aeltgen Willems van Linschoten was the wife of Dutch Golden Age painter Egbert van der Poel and a member of a 17th-century Delft artistic milieu.
  • B. Willem Barentsz
    Willem Barentsz was a Dutch navigator and explorer best known for his late 16th-century Arctic voyages in search of a Northeast Passage, during which he extensively charted regions around Novaya Zemlya and Spitsbergen.
  • C. Jan Pieterszoon Coen
    Jan Pieterszoon Coen was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator and merchant best known for founding Batavia (modern Jakarta) and ruthlessly consolidating Dutch power in the East Indies for the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
  • D. Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer
    Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer was a pioneering Dutch navigator and cartographer best known for his influential late 16th-century sea atlases that greatly advanced European maritime navigation.
  • E. Adriaan Metius
    Adriaan Metius was a Dutch mathematician and astronomer of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, known for his work on geometry, surveying, and approximations of π.
  • 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_69bd43dccaf08190aa89e9991a289719 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd5923c0c88190952137d448d474cf completed March 20, 2026, 2:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bde0cdc7e8819088758c1d6d8e866d completed March 21, 2026, 12:05 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bde21999688190afc48da7fa2cd869 completed March 21, 2026, 12:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bde283e1988190bfa3545d2a362294 completed March 21, 2026, 12:12 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:11 p.m.