Triple

T7638497
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Blaise de Vigenère E172940 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object de Vigenère
de Vigenère is the surname most famously associated with Blaise de Vigenère, the 16th-century French diplomat and cryptographer known for the Vigenère cipher.
E677523 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: de Vigenère | Statement: [Blaise de Vigenère, familyName, de Vigenère]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: de Vigenère
Context triple: [Blaise de Vigenère, familyName, de Vigenère]
  • A. Playfair
    Playfair is a Scottish surname most notably associated with John Playfair, an 18th–19th century mathematician and geologist known for popularizing geometry and scientific ideas.
  • B. Alberti cipher disk
    The Alberti cipher disk is a 15th-century polyalphabetic substitution device, considered one of the earliest mechanical tools for encrypting messages and a foundational innovation in modern cryptography.
  • C. Square cipher
    The Square cipher is a block cipher and direct predecessor to the Rijndael algorithm (later standardized as AES), notable for introducing design ideas such as the wide trail strategy.
  • D. Atbash
    Atbash is a classical Hebrew substitution cipher that encodes text by reversing the alphabet so that each letter is replaced by its counterpart from the opposite end.
  • E. Serpent cipher
    Serpent cipher is a symmetric-key block cipher and former AES finalist known for its strong security margin and conservative design based on a substitution–permutation network structure.
  • 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: de Vigenère
Triple: [Blaise de Vigenère, familyName, de Vigenère]
Generated description
de Vigenère is the surname most famously associated with Blaise de Vigenère, the 16th-century French diplomat and cryptographer known for the Vigenère cipher.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: de Vigenère
Target entity description: de Vigenère is the surname most famously associated with Blaise de Vigenère, the 16th-century French diplomat and cryptographer known for the Vigenère cipher.
  • A. Playfair
    Playfair is a Scottish surname most notably associated with John Playfair, an 18th–19th century mathematician and geologist known for popularizing geometry and scientific ideas.
  • B. Alberti cipher disk
    The Alberti cipher disk is a 15th-century polyalphabetic substitution device, considered one of the earliest mechanical tools for encrypting messages and a foundational innovation in modern cryptography.
  • C. Square cipher
    The Square cipher is a block cipher and direct predecessor to the Rijndael algorithm (later standardized as AES), notable for introducing design ideas such as the wide trail strategy.
  • D. Atbash
    Atbash is a classical Hebrew substitution cipher that encodes text by reversing the alphabet so that each letter is replaced by its counterpart from the opposite end.
  • E. Serpent cipher
    Serpent cipher is a symmetric-key block cipher and former AES finalist known for its strong security margin and conservative design based on a substitution–permutation network structure.
  • 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_69c69952849881908fdcea7a93bfc307 completed March 27, 2026, 2:50 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6facb14188190952de18fa2699784 completed March 27, 2026, 9:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c870c7b2bc8190948bc2904b278062 completed March 29, 2026, 12:22 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c87161de408190a21ed38c126a4b56 completed March 29, 2026, 12:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c871e555c4819089df52fefe38ed7b completed March 29, 2026, 12:27 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:57 p.m.