Triple

T15106466
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery E360798 entity
Predicate hasNotableBurial P196 FINISHED
Object Paul Nipkow
Paul Nipkow was a German engineer and television pioneer best known for inventing the Nipkow disk, an early mechanical scanning device that laid groundwork for television technology.
 E1136350 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: Paul Nipkow | Statement: [Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Paul Nipkow]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Paul Nipkow
Context triple: [Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Paul Nipkow]
  • A. Friedrich Braun
    Friedrich Braun was a German civil servant best known as the father of Eva Braun, the longtime companion and later wife of Adolf Hitler.
  • B. Vladimir Zworykin
    Vladimir Zworykin was a Russian-American engineer and inventor widely regarded as a pioneer of television technology, particularly for his work on the iconoscope and kinescope.
  • C. John Logie Baird
    John Logie Baird was a Scottish engineer and inventor best known for creating the first working television system and pioneering early television broadcasting.
  • D. Johann Kraus
    Johann Kraus is a disembodied ectoplasmic medium and paranormal investigator in the Hellboy universe, known for his work with the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense.
  • E. Ernst Ruska
    Ernst Ruska was a German physicist and engineer best known for inventing the electron microscope, a breakthrough that revolutionized imaging at the nanoscale.
  • 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: Paul Nipkow
Triple: [Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Paul Nipkow]
Generated description
Paul Nipkow was a German engineer and television pioneer best known for inventing the Nipkow disk, an early mechanical scanning device that laid groundwork for television technology.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Paul Nipkow
Target entity description: Paul Nipkow was a German engineer and television pioneer best known for inventing the Nipkow disk, an early mechanical scanning device that laid groundwork for television technology.
  • A. Friedrich Braun
    Friedrich Braun was a German civil servant best known as the father of Eva Braun, the longtime companion and later wife of Adolf Hitler.
  • B. Vladimir Zworykin
    Vladimir Zworykin was a Russian-American engineer and inventor widely regarded as a pioneer of television technology, particularly for his work on the iconoscope and kinescope.
  • C. John Logie Baird
    John Logie Baird was a Scottish engineer and inventor best known for creating the first working television system and pioneering early television broadcasting.
  • D. Johann Kraus
    Johann Kraus is a disembodied ectoplasmic medium and paranormal investigator in the Hellboy universe, known for his work with the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense.
  • E. Ernst Ruska
    Ernst Ruska was a German physicist and engineer best known for inventing the electron microscope, a breakthrough that revolutionized imaging at the nanoscale.
  • 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_69d85a0491ec8190830960be8fafb994 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e00588f35481909674f161bf0f3918 completed April 15, 2026, 9:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69feae28e99881908156909e553c2538 completed May 9, 2026, 3:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69feaf39ddec81908da194211b2d0994 completed May 9, 2026, 3:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69feafce7fa081908bc6167970f1822f completed May 9, 2026, 3:53 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:05 a.m.