Triple

T18602023
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tupi peoples E454639 entity
Predicate documentedBy P4310 FINISHED
Object Hans Staden
Hans Staden was a 16th-century German soldier and explorer best known for his captivity narrative describing his experiences among the Indigenous peoples of Brazil, including alleged encounters with cannibalistic rituals.
E1334806 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: Hans Staden | Statement: [Tupi peoples, documentedBy, Hans Staden]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hans Staden
Context triple: [Tupi peoples, documentedBy, Hans Staden]
  • A. Jean de Léry
    Jean de Léry was a 16th-century French Protestant traveler and writer best known for his detailed ethnographic account of Indigenous peoples in Brazil, particularly the Tupi.
  • B. André Thevet
    André Thevet was a 16th-century French Franciscan friar, explorer, and cosmographer best known for his travel writings and early descriptions of the New World and the Near East.
  • C. Bartolomé
    Bartolomé is the namesake of Bartolomé House, likely a historically or academically significant figure associated with that building.
  • D. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
    Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was a 16th-century Spanish explorer and chronicler best known for surviving the failed Narváez expedition and documenting his years of wandering across what is now the southern United States and northern Mexico.
  • E. Werner Spies
    Werner Spies is a German art historian, critic, and curator renowned for his expertise on 20th-century art, particularly the work of Max Ernst.
  • 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: Hans Staden
Triple: [Tupi peoples, documentedBy, Hans Staden]
Generated description
Hans Staden was a 16th-century German soldier and explorer best known for his captivity narrative describing his experiences among the Indigenous peoples of Brazil, including alleged encounters with cannibalistic rituals.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hans Staden
Target entity description: Hans Staden was a 16th-century German soldier and explorer best known for his captivity narrative describing his experiences among the Indigenous peoples of Brazil, including alleged encounters with cannibalistic rituals.
  • A. Jean de Léry
    Jean de Léry was a 16th-century French Protestant traveler and writer best known for his detailed ethnographic account of Indigenous peoples in Brazil, particularly the Tupi.
  • B. André Thevet
    André Thevet was a 16th-century French Franciscan friar, explorer, and cosmographer best known for his travel writings and early descriptions of the New World and the Near East.
  • C. Bartolomé
    Bartolomé is the namesake of Bartolomé House, likely a historically or academically significant figure associated with that building.
  • D. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
    Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was a 16th-century Spanish explorer and chronicler best known for surviving the failed Narváez expedition and documenting his years of wandering across what is now the southern United States and northern Mexico.
  • E. Werner Spies
    Werner Spies is a German art historian, critic, and curator renowned for his expertise on 20th-century art, particularly the work of Max Ernst.
  • 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_69d8d38bbe7c8190bdec3138e7d413c9 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e54751d7ec81909efc4867f649002e completed April 19, 2026, 9:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a050d6eb92c8190aa0c1f4eb0deb5cb completed May 13, 2026, 11:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a050e04ebd881909120edb46168fbcb completed May 13, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a050e6112e88190a399cf58ea6c8401 completed May 13, 2026, 11:50 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:45 a.m.