Triple

T8883430
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Isthmian Canal Commission E211465 entity
Predicate hasMember P10 FINISHED
Object Oswald H. Ernst
Oswald H. Ernst was a U.S. Army engineer and military officer known for his service in major engineering projects and advisory roles, including work related to the Panama Canal.
E775896 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: Oswald H. Ernst | Statement: [Isthmian Canal Commission, hasMember, Oswald H. Ernst]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oswald H. Ernst
Context triple: [Isthmian Canal Commission, hasMember, Oswald H. Ernst]
  • A. Ernst J. Berg
    Ernst J. Berg was an electrical engineer and educator known for his contributions to early radio engineering and for helping establish electrical engineering as an academic discipline in the United States.
  • B. Rudolf Garrels
    Rudolf Garrels was an 18th-century Dutch organ builder known for constructing and maintaining notable church organs in the Netherlands.
  • C. Alwin H. Küchler
    Alwin H. Küchler is a German cinematographer known for his visually distinctive work on films such as "Sunshine," "Hanna," and "Steve Jobs."
  • D. C. A. Rudolph
    C. A. Rudolph was an individual of local significance in Gainesville, Georgia, whose prominence is reflected by being listed among the notable burials in Alta Vista Cemetery.
  • E. Julius A. Wolf
    Julius A. Wolf was a criminal defendant whose case, Wolf v. Colorado, became a landmark 1949 U.S. Supreme Court decision on the application of the Fourth Amendment’s exclusionary rule to the states.
  • 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: Oswald H. Ernst
Triple: [Isthmian Canal Commission, hasMember, Oswald H. Ernst]
Generated description
Oswald H. Ernst was a U.S. Army engineer and military officer known for his service in major engineering projects and advisory roles, including work related to the Panama Canal.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oswald H. Ernst
Target entity description: Oswald H. Ernst was a U.S. Army engineer and military officer known for his service in major engineering projects and advisory roles, including work related to the Panama Canal.
  • A. Ernst J. Berg
    Ernst J. Berg was an electrical engineer and educator known for his contributions to early radio engineering and for helping establish electrical engineering as an academic discipline in the United States.
  • B. Rudolf Garrels
    Rudolf Garrels was an 18th-century Dutch organ builder known for constructing and maintaining notable church organs in the Netherlands.
  • C. Alwin H. Küchler
    Alwin H. Küchler is a German cinematographer known for his visually distinctive work on films such as "Sunshine," "Hanna," and "Steve Jobs."
  • D. C. A. Rudolph
    C. A. Rudolph was an individual of local significance in Gainesville, Georgia, whose prominence is reflected by being listed among the notable burials in Alta Vista Cemetery.
  • E. Julius A. Wolf
    Julius A. Wolf was a criminal defendant whose case, Wolf v. Colorado, became a landmark 1949 U.S. Supreme Court decision on the application of the Fourth Amendment’s exclusionary rule to the states.
  • 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_69ca838f9e20819096ab1f236a70381a completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc616b2d988190b923ef1e33aab787 completed April 1, 2026, 12:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cffd78f35881909c15249b58a1ce03 completed April 3, 2026, 5:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d000d2c5688190b014ce33c04ff875 completed April 3, 2026, 6:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d001a1056c819083793547dbd4b1ee completed April 3, 2026, 6:06 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:53 p.m.