Triple

T817884
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Helmholtz Medal E17689 entity
Predicate hasRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Wilhelm Wien
Wilhelm Wien was a German physicist best known for formulating Wien's displacement law, which describes the shift of blackbody radiation spectra with temperature and contributed significantly to the development of quantum theory.
 E118618 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: Wilhelm Wien | Statement: [Helmholtz Medal, hasRecipient, Wilhelm Wien]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Wilhelm Wien
Context triple: [Helmholtz Medal, hasRecipient, Wilhelm Wien]
  • A. Walther Nernst
    Walther Nernst was a German physical chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for formulating the Nernst equation and contributing fundamentally to thermodynamics and electrochemistry.
  • B. Johannes Stark
    Johannes Stark was a German physicist and Nobel laureate known for discovering the Stark effect, the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields.
  • C. Julius Plücker
    Julius Plücker was a 19th-century German mathematician and physicist known for his pioneering work in analytic and projective geometry as well as early contributions to spectroscopy.
  • D. Max Planck
    Max Planck was a German theoretical physicist regarded as the founder of quantum theory and a key figure in modern physics.
  • E. Arnold Sommerfeld
    Arnold Sommerfeld was a pioneering German theoretical physicist whose work in atomic and quantum theory significantly shaped modern physics and influenced generations of prominent scientists.
  • 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: Wilhelm Wien
Triple: [Helmholtz Medal, hasRecipient, Wilhelm Wien]
Generated description
Wilhelm Wien was a German physicist best known for formulating Wien's displacement law, which describes the shift of blackbody radiation spectra with temperature and contributed significantly to the development of quantum theory.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Wilhelm Wien
Target entity description: Wilhelm Wien was a German physicist best known for formulating Wien's displacement law, which describes the shift of blackbody radiation spectra with temperature and contributed significantly to the development of quantum theory.
  • A. Walther Nernst
    Walther Nernst was a German physical chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for formulating the Nernst equation and contributing fundamentally to thermodynamics and electrochemistry.
  • B. Johannes Stark
    Johannes Stark was a German physicist and Nobel laureate known for discovering the Stark effect, the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields.
  • C. Julius Plücker
    Julius Plücker was a 19th-century German mathematician and physicist known for his pioneering work in analytic and projective geometry as well as early contributions to spectroscopy.
  • D. Max Planck
    Max Planck was a German theoretical physicist regarded as the founder of quantum theory and a key figure in modern physics.
  • E. Arnold Sommerfeld
    Arnold Sommerfeld was a pioneering German theoretical physicist whose work in atomic and quantum theory significantly shaped modern physics and influenced generations of prominent scientists.
  • 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_69a4937bcaac8190a322524ac6f45a5a completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ab63f4a48190a61a14c3c41ed641 completed March 1, 2026, 9:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac2a0906408190bd54e6308af30631 completed March 7, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac2a9b66b48190a3c14c431fe41c1e completed March 7, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac2b18ea44819086cd9ead0d8e0d01 completed March 7, 2026, 1:41 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.