Triple

T9466649
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject MIT Linguistics Section E228287 entity
Predicate notableFaculty P141 FINISHED
Object Kai von Fintel
Kai von Fintel is a prominent linguist known for his influential work in formal semantics and pragmatics and for his long-standing professorship at MIT.
E800845 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: Kai von Fintel | Statement: [MIT Linguistics Section, notableFaculty, Kai von Fintel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kai von Fintel
Context triple: [MIT Linguistics Section, notableFaculty, Kai von Fintel]
  • A. Jarin Blaschke
    Jarin Blaschke is an American cinematographer best known for his stark, atmospheric black-and-white work on films like "The Lighthouse."
  • B. Lukas Haas
    Lukas Haas is an American actor known for his early breakthrough role in "Witness" (1985) and a diverse career spanning independent films and major Hollywood productions.
  • C. Topher Brink
    Topher Brink is a brilliant but morally conflicted programmer and neuroscientist in the TV series "Dollhouse," responsible for designing and overseeing the mind-wiping and imprinting technology used on the show's "dolls."
  • D. Nico Habermann
    Nico Habermann was a German-American computer scientist known for his contributions to programming languages, operating systems, and software engineering, and for his influential academic leadership at Carnegie Mellon University.
  • E. Kai Wegner
    Kai Wegner is a German politician from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who serves as the Governing Mayor of Berlin.
  • 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: Kai von Fintel
Triple: [MIT Linguistics Section, notableFaculty, Kai von Fintel]
Generated description
Kai von Fintel is a prominent linguist known for his influential work in formal semantics and pragmatics and for his long-standing professorship at MIT.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kai von Fintel
Target entity description: Kai von Fintel is a prominent linguist known for his influential work in formal semantics and pragmatics and for his long-standing professorship at MIT.
  • A. Jarin Blaschke
    Jarin Blaschke is an American cinematographer best known for his stark, atmospheric black-and-white work on films like "The Lighthouse."
  • B. Lukas Haas
    Lukas Haas is an American actor known for his early breakthrough role in "Witness" (1985) and a diverse career spanning independent films and major Hollywood productions.
  • C. Topher Brink
    Topher Brink is a brilliant but morally conflicted programmer and neuroscientist in the TV series "Dollhouse," responsible for designing and overseeing the mind-wiping and imprinting technology used on the show's "dolls."
  • D. Nico Habermann
    Nico Habermann was a German-American computer scientist known for his contributions to programming languages, operating systems, and software engineering, and for his influential academic leadership at Carnegie Mellon University.
  • E. Kai Wegner
    Kai Wegner is a German politician from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who serves as the Governing Mayor of Berlin.
  • 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_69ca846fee388190a6ec273fd644b88b completed March 30, 2026, 2:10 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd7fdc08f08190ad17de08d2c2eca2 completed April 1, 2026, 8:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d122ba3d948190a3fa947cd3cad63b completed April 4, 2026, 2:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d123bc10b88190bd8f5a543d32c788 completed April 4, 2026, 2:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1243ba18881909c2adf7c0b4b93b8 completed April 4, 2026, 2:46 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:53 p.m.