Triple

T7657222
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nicolaes E173413 entity
Predicate usedBy P260 FINISHED
Object Nicolaes Witsen
Nicolaes Witsen was a 17th-century Dutch statesman, mayor of Amsterdam, cartographer, and scholar known for his influential works on shipbuilding and his detailed studies of Russia and Siberia.
 E689045 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: Nicolaes Witsen | Statement: [Nicolaes, usedBy, Nicolaes Witsen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Nicolaes Witsen
Context triple: [Nicolaes, usedBy, Nicolaes Witsen]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Cornelis Jol
    Cornelis Jol was a 17th-century Dutch admiral and privateer for the Dutch West India Company, known for his naval battles against the Spanish and Portuguese.
  • C. Pieter Willem
    Pieter Willem is the full given name of P. W. Botha, the former State President and Prime Minister of apartheid-era South Africa.
  • D. Cornelis Springer
    Cornelis Springer was a 19th-century Dutch painter renowned for his detailed and atmospheric cityscapes and architectural scenes.
  • E. Cornelis van der Wal
    Cornelis van der Wal is a Frisian poet and writer known for his contributions to contemporary Frisian-language literature.
  • 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: Nicolaes Witsen
Triple: [Nicolaes, usedBy, Nicolaes Witsen]
Generated description
Nicolaes Witsen was a 17th-century Dutch statesman, mayor of Amsterdam, cartographer, and scholar known for his influential works on shipbuilding and his detailed studies of Russia and Siberia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Nicolaes Witsen
Target entity description: Nicolaes Witsen was a 17th-century Dutch statesman, mayor of Amsterdam, cartographer, and scholar known for his influential works on shipbuilding and his detailed studies of Russia and Siberia.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Cornelis Jol
    Cornelis Jol was a 17th-century Dutch admiral and privateer for the Dutch West India Company, known for his naval battles against the Spanish and Portuguese.
  • C. Pieter Willem
    Pieter Willem is the full given name of P. W. Botha, the former State President and Prime Minister of apartheid-era South Africa.
  • D. Cornelis Springer
    Cornelis Springer was a 19th-century Dutch painter renowned for his detailed and atmospheric cityscapes and architectural scenes.
  • E. Cornelis van der Wal
    Cornelis van der Wal is a Frisian poet and writer known for his contributions to contemporary Frisian-language literature.
  • 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_69c69955517c819085bc715b96d304d2 completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c7018fcbb48190a479f2effd939a8e completed March 27, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8eefc58f08190b6d57608a2a296c8 completed March 29, 2026, 9:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8efec66d08190a6363b563c0c32cd completed March 29, 2026, 9:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8f0426d84819088b319f24c626cb3 completed March 29, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:59 p.m.