Triple

T7219274
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject German East Africa E150213 entity
Predicate notableCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck was a German general best known for leading a highly effective guerrilla campaign in East Africa against Allied forces during World War I.
E649664 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: Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck | Statement: [German East Africa, notableCommander, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
Context triple: [German East Africa, notableCommander, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck]
  • A. Buzi
    Buzi is a biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the priestly father of the prophet Ezekiel.
  • B. Christiaan de Wet
    Christiaan de Wet was a prominent Boer general and guerrilla leader renowned for his daring and highly effective campaigns against British forces during the Second Boer War.
  • C. Andries Pretorius
    Andries Pretorius was a prominent 19th-century Boer leader and military commander who played a key role in establishing Afrikaner republics in southern Africa.
  • D. Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz
    Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz was a prominent Prussian field marshal and military theorist who served as a senior German advisor and commander in the Ottoman Empire during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Ernst Gideon von Laudon
    Ernst Gideon von Laudon was an 18th-century Austrian field marshal renowned for his victories against Prussia during the Seven Years' War and as one of the Habsburg Monarchy’s most celebrated military commanders.
  • 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: Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
Triple: [German East Africa, notableCommander, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck]
Generated description
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck was a German general best known for leading a highly effective guerrilla campaign in East Africa against Allied forces during World War I.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
Target entity description: Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck was a German general best known for leading a highly effective guerrilla campaign in East Africa against Allied forces during World War I.
  • A. Buzi
    Buzi is a biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the priestly father of the prophet Ezekiel.
  • B. Christiaan de Wet
    Christiaan de Wet was a prominent Boer general and guerrilla leader renowned for his daring and highly effective campaigns against British forces during the Second Boer War.
  • C. Andries Pretorius
    Andries Pretorius was a prominent 19th-century Boer leader and military commander who played a key role in establishing Afrikaner republics in southern Africa.
  • D. Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz
    Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz was a prominent Prussian field marshal and military theorist who served as a senior German advisor and commander in the Ottoman Empire during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • E. Ernst Gideon von Laudon
    Ernst Gideon von Laudon was an 18th-century Austrian field marshal renowned for his victories against Prussia during the Seven Years' War and as one of the Habsburg Monarchy’s most celebrated military commanders.
  • 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_69c687effb44819092b95d07d0368c9f completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e9b1a7908190bd215ffb84592e32 completed March 27, 2026, 8:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7cc014fb88190818e12b7abe90c0a completed March 28, 2026, 12:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7ccf3cd4c8190babc9e0e6b9f4371 completed March 28, 2026, 12:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7cd5cedd88190b72df89b068c4483 completed March 28, 2026, 12:45 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:53 p.m.