Triple

T18996875
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Karl Ziegler E464837 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Karl
Karl is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in German-speaking and Scandinavian countries and related to the English name Charles.
E79216 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: Karl | Statement: [Karl Ziegler, givenName, Karl]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Karl
Context triple: [Karl Ziegler, givenName, Karl]
  • A. Karl
    Karl is the given first name of Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the renowned German-American mathematician and electrical engineer who revolutionized the understanding of alternating current systems.
  • B. Karl
    Karl is a ruthless, long-haired German terrorist and Hans Gruber’s vengeful right-hand man in the action film "Die Hard."
  • C. Karl
    Karl Schwarzschild was a German physicist and astronomer best known for providing the first exact solution to Einstein’s field equations, leading to the concept of the Schwarzschild black hole.
  • D. Karl
    Karl is the given name of Karl Ritter von Halt, a notable German sports official and International Olympic Committee member in the early to mid-20th century.
  • E. Karl
    Karl is the given name of Karl Liebknecht, the German socialist politician and co-founder of the Communist Party of Germany.
  • 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: Karl
Triple: [Karl Ziegler, givenName, Karl]
Generated description
Karl is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in German-speaking and Scandinavian countries and related to the English name Charles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Karl
Target entity description: Karl is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in German-speaking and Scandinavian countries and related to the English name Charles.
  • A. Karl chosen
    Karl is a Germanic given name, cognate with Charles, commonly used in German-speaking and other European countries.
  • B. Karl
    Karl is the given name of Charles Frederick, the Grand Duke of Baden, a prominent German ruler of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • C. Karl
    Karl is the given name of Prince Karl von Lichnowsky, a notable German aristocrat and diplomat of the early 20th century.
  • D. Karl
    Karl is the given name of Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, a German nobleman and father of the future Russian Emperor Peter III.
  • E. Karl
    Karl is the given name of Karl Mendelssohn Bartholdy, a 19th-century German historian and son of composer Felix Mendelssohn.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d8dd01a56c81909694a128c66b21d7 completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5d6826464819080ff0e0ffa5cc25e completed April 20, 2026, 7:32 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a05be49f9ac8190b4bb5836f4b8ffdd completed May 14, 2026, 12:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05bf77069c8190ad286e2efc5901c6 completed May 14, 2026, 12:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a05c017b7f0819087d42df1fe099ab9 completed May 14, 2026, 12:29 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:01 p.m.