Triple

T17483912
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Great Retreat E425730 entity
Predicate opposingCommander P1698 FINISHED
Object General Karl von Bülow
General Karl von Bülow was a senior German army commander in World War I, best known for leading the German Second Army during the early Western Front campaigns.
E1272854 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: General Karl von Bülow | Statement: [Great Retreat, opposingCommander, General Karl von Bülow]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: General Karl von Bülow
Context triple: [Great Retreat, opposingCommander, General Karl von Bülow]
  • A. Ferdinand von Quast
    Ferdinand von Quast was a 19th-century German architect and preservationist known as one of the pioneers of historic monument conservation in Prussia.
  • B. Ferdinand von Quast
    Ferdinand von Quast was a German general of World War I, noted for his leadership of German forces on the Western Front, including during major offensives in 1918.
  • C. Count Alfred von Oberndorff
    Count Alfred von Oberndorff was a German diplomat and nobleman who served as one of Germany’s representatives in the negotiations that ended World War I.
  • D. Ludwig von Falkenhayn
    Ludwig von Falkenhayn was a German military officer who commanded German forces during the 1917 Battle of Arras in World War I.
  • E. Gustav Nachtigal
    Gustav Nachtigal was a 19th-century German explorer and colonial administrator known for his expeditions in Central and West Africa and his role in establishing German colonial rule there.
  • 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: General Karl von Bülow
Triple: [Great Retreat, opposingCommander, General Karl von Bülow]
Generated description
General Karl von Bülow was a senior German army commander in World War I, best known for leading the German Second Army during the early Western Front campaigns.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: General Karl von Bülow
Target entity description: General Karl von Bülow was a senior German army commander in World War I, best known for leading the German Second Army during the early Western Front campaigns.
  • A. Ferdinand von Quast
    Ferdinand von Quast was a 19th-century German architect and preservationist known as one of the pioneers of historic monument conservation in Prussia.
  • B. Ferdinand von Quast
    Ferdinand von Quast was a German general of World War I, noted for his leadership of German forces on the Western Front, including during major offensives in 1918.
  • C. Count Alfred von Oberndorff
    Count Alfred von Oberndorff was a German diplomat and nobleman who served as one of Germany’s representatives in the negotiations that ended World War I.
  • D. Ludwig von Falkenhayn
    Ludwig von Falkenhayn was a German military officer who commanded German forces during the 1917 Battle of Arras in World War I.
  • E. Gustav Nachtigal
    Gustav Nachtigal was a 19th-century German explorer and colonial administrator known for his expeditions in Central and West Africa and his role in establishing German colonial rule there.
  • 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_69d889dccf7481909264a1844a2e9100 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e451d06c2881909632845dd7a6b1e3 completed April 19, 2026, 3:53 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01c1faa20c8190910d429fbca4e6cb completed May 11, 2026, 11:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01c6373f008190864593e8f582b707 completed May 11, 2026, 12:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01c6d4313c819086b40432c738efcb completed May 11, 2026, 12:08 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:48 a.m.