Triple

T20319217
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Schering AG E492162 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Ernst Schering
Ernst Schering was a 19th-century German pharmacist and entrepreneur who built a small Berlin pharmacy into the major pharmaceutical company later known as Schering AG.
E1427041 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: Ernst Schering | Statement: [Schering AG, founder, Ernst Schering]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernst Schering
Context triple: [Schering AG, founder, Ernst Schering]
  • A. Ernst Schering
    Ernst Schering was a German mathematician and physicist known for his work in geodesy and potential theory in the 19th century.
  • B. Anselm Franz von Ingelheim
    Anselm Franz von Ingelheim was a 17th-century German archbishop and statesman who served as Archbishop-Elector of Mainz, making him one of the most influential ecclesiastical princes in the Holy Roman Empire.
  • C. Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche
    Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche was a Swiss entrepreneur and industrialist who founded the global healthcare and pharmaceutical company Roche in the late 19th century.
  • D. Ludwig Ehrlich
    Ludwig Ehrlich was a Polish Jesuit priest, legal scholar, and professor of international law known for his contributions to the development of legal thought in interwar Poland.
  • E. George Merck
    George Merck was an American pharmaceutical executive best known for leading and expanding Merck & Co. into a major global drug company in the early 20th century.
  • 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: Ernst Schering
Triple: [Schering AG, founder, Ernst Schering]
Generated description
Ernst Schering was a 19th-century German pharmacist and entrepreneur who built a small Berlin pharmacy into the major pharmaceutical company later known as Schering AG.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernst Schering
Target entity description: Ernst Schering was a 19th-century German pharmacist and entrepreneur who built a small Berlin pharmacy into the major pharmaceutical company later known as Schering AG.
  • A. Ernst Schering
    Ernst Schering was a German mathematician and physicist known for his work in geodesy and potential theory in the 19th century.
  • B. Anselm Franz von Ingelheim
    Anselm Franz von Ingelheim was a 17th-century German archbishop and statesman who served as Archbishop-Elector of Mainz, making him one of the most influential ecclesiastical princes in the Holy Roman Empire.
  • C. Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche
    Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche was a Swiss entrepreneur and industrialist who founded the global healthcare and pharmaceutical company Roche in the late 19th century.
  • D. Ludwig Ehrlich
    Ludwig Ehrlich was a Polish Jesuit priest, legal scholar, and professor of international law known for his contributions to the development of legal thought in interwar Poland.
  • E. George Merck
    George Merck was an American pharmaceutical executive best known for leading and expanding Merck & Co. into a major global drug company in the early 20th century.
  • 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_69e0b4a0134081909113563e1c3ba68a completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6778abd14819098a01fd32217fdde completed April 20, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a087077b47c8190a554bb01a48f7500 completed May 16, 2026, 1:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0871146b248190ac91cf010a984e1f completed May 16, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0871a818688190ad69bcf84e33d014 completed May 16, 2026, 1:31 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:20 a.m.