Triple

T8490715
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Paul Ehrenfest E200960 entity
Predicate notableStudent P4838 FINISHED
Object Dirk Coster
Dirk Coster was a Dutch physicist best known for co-discovering the element hafnium and for his contributions to atomic and X-ray spectroscopy.
E735837 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: Dirk Coster | Statement: [Paul Ehrenfest, notableStudent, Dirk Coster]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dirk Coster
Context triple: [Paul Ehrenfest, notableStudent, Dirk Coster]
  • A. Dirk
    Dirk is a masculine given name of Dutch and German origin, commonly used in the Netherlands and other Germanic-speaking regions.
  • B. Johan Evertsen
    Johan Evertsen was a prominent 17th-century Dutch admiral who played a key role in the naval conflicts of the Dutch Republic, including the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
  • C. Jacob Vaark
    Jacob Vaark is a 17th-century Anglo-Dutch farmer and landowner in Toni Morrison’s novel "A Mercy," whose experiences reflect the brutal complexities of early American colonialism and slavery.
  • D. Dirck
    Dirck is a Dutch masculine given name historically borne by several notable figures, including artists of the Dutch Golden Age.
  • E. Balthazar Bratt
    Balthazar Bratt is a former child TV star turned supervillain obsessed with 1980s pop culture in the Despicable Me film series.
  • 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: Dirk Coster
Triple: [Paul Ehrenfest, notableStudent, Dirk Coster]
Generated description
Dirk Coster was a Dutch physicist best known for co-discovering the element hafnium and for his contributions to atomic and X-ray spectroscopy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dirk Coster
Target entity description: Dirk Coster was a Dutch physicist best known for co-discovering the element hafnium and for his contributions to atomic and X-ray spectroscopy.
  • A. Dirk
    Dirk is a masculine given name of Dutch and German origin, commonly used in the Netherlands and other Germanic-speaking regions.
  • B. Johan Evertsen
    Johan Evertsen was a prominent 17th-century Dutch admiral who played a key role in the naval conflicts of the Dutch Republic, including the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
  • C. Jacob Vaark
    Jacob Vaark is a 17th-century Anglo-Dutch farmer and landowner in Toni Morrison’s novel "A Mercy," whose experiences reflect the brutal complexities of early American colonialism and slavery.
  • D. Dirck
    Dirck is a Dutch masculine given name historically borne by several notable figures, including artists of the Dutch Golden Age.
  • E. Balthazar Bratt
    Balthazar Bratt is a former child TV star turned supervillain obsessed with 1980s pop culture in the Despicable Me film series.
  • 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_69ca831d7b148190a6e32c1de43ab13b completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe55af3f48190a8cd64cdce0ebd4c completed March 31, 2026, 3:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce3a54c3888190b11b7e9909abe518 completed April 2, 2026, 9:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce3b2015748190abc70b25c36aa819 completed April 2, 2026, 9:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce3c1042e48190a0f340e771cdd00a completed April 2, 2026, 9:51 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:13 p.m.