Triple

T7575681
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Archaeopteryx lithographica E179356 entity
Predicate firstDescribedBy P7386 FINISHED
Object Hermann von Meyer
Hermann von Meyer was a 19th-century German paleontologist best known for formally describing the iconic transitional fossil Archaeopteryx lithographica.
E729109 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: Hermann von Meyer | Statement: [Archaeopteryx lithographica, firstDescribedBy, Hermann von Meyer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hermann von Meyer
Context triple: [Archaeopteryx lithographica, firstDescribedBy, Hermann von Meyer]
  • A. Friedrich von Mellenthin
    Friedrich von Mellenthin was a German Wehrmacht officer and later military historian, best known for his service as a staff officer in armoured units during World War II and for his influential postwar writings on tank warfare.
  • B. Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk
    Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk was a German politician who served as finance minister under the Nazi regime and briefly headed the Flensburg government after Hitler’s death.
  • C. Oskar von Miller
    Oskar von Miller was a German engineer and pioneering museum founder best known for establishing Munich’s Deutsches Museum, one of the world’s leading science and technology museums.
  • D. Karl von Fasbender
    Karl von Fasbender was a German general of the Imperial German Army during World War I, noted for his leadership on the Western Front.
  • E. Max von Forckenbeck
    Max von Forckenbeck was a prominent 19th-century German liberal politician who served as mayor of both Berlin and Breslau and played a leading role in the development of parliamentary democracy in Prussia and the German Empire.
  • 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: Hermann von Meyer
Triple: [Archaeopteryx lithographica, firstDescribedBy, Hermann von Meyer]
Generated description
Hermann von Meyer was a 19th-century German paleontologist best known for formally describing the iconic transitional fossil Archaeopteryx lithographica.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hermann von Meyer
Target entity description: Hermann von Meyer was a 19th-century German paleontologist best known for formally describing the iconic transitional fossil Archaeopteryx lithographica.
  • A. Friedrich von Mellenthin
    Friedrich von Mellenthin was a German Wehrmacht officer and later military historian, best known for his service as a staff officer in armoured units during World War II and for his influential postwar writings on tank warfare.
  • B. Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk
    Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk was a German politician who served as finance minister under the Nazi regime and briefly headed the Flensburg government after Hitler’s death.
  • C. Oskar von Miller
    Oskar von Miller was a German engineer and pioneering museum founder best known for establishing Munich’s Deutsches Museum, one of the world’s leading science and technology museums.
  • D. Karl von Fasbender
    Karl von Fasbender was a German general of the Imperial German Army during World War I, noted for his leadership on the Western Front.
  • E. Max von Forckenbeck
    Max von Forckenbeck was a prominent 19th-century German liberal politician who served as mayor of both Berlin and Breslau and played a leading role in the development of parliamentary democracy in Prussia and the German Empire.
  • 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_69c69f316e50819081a271c85c06f918 completed March 27, 2026, 3:16 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f94a25148190b5b76e000e0336c4 completed March 27, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cde6a2bdd08190897705615109dae0 completed April 2, 2026, 3:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cdeb1fa7308190810b1fcc2184374a completed April 2, 2026, 4:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cdec3081d88190ad0699f9072d3fc7 completed April 2, 2026, 4:10 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:51 p.m.