Triple

T21922620
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sulzer Brothers E541356 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Johann Jakob Sulzer
Johann Jakob Sulzer was a 19th-century Swiss industrialist and engineer best known as the founder of the Sulzer Brothers engineering and manufacturing company.
E1515054 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: Johann Jakob Sulzer | Statement: [Sulzer Brothers, foundedBy, Johann Jakob Sulzer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Johann Jakob Sulzer
Context triple: [Sulzer Brothers, foundedBy, Johann Jakob Sulzer]
  • A. Johann Georg Sulzer
    Johann Georg Sulzer was an 18th-century Swiss philosopher and aesthetician known for his influential writings on art theory, education, and Enlightenment thought.
  • B. Christian Gotthilf Salzmann
    Christian Gotthilf Salzmann was an 18th-century German Protestant pastor and educational reformer best known for founding the Schnepfenthal educational institute and promoting progressive, child-centered pedagogy.
  • C. Johann Georg Bühler
    Johann Georg Bühler was a 19th-century German Indologist and epigraphist known for his pioneering research on ancient Indian scripts, law codes, and Sanskrit literature.
  • D. Carl Sulzer
    Carl Sulzer was a mountaineer known for participating in pioneering ascents in the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia, Canada.
  • E. Johann Jakob Wettstein
    Johann Jakob Wettstein was an 18th-century Swiss theologian and pioneering New Testament textual critic known for his influential work on cataloguing and analyzing biblical manuscripts.
  • 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: Johann Jakob Sulzer
Triple: [Sulzer Brothers, foundedBy, Johann Jakob Sulzer]
Generated description
Johann Jakob Sulzer was a 19th-century Swiss industrialist and engineer best known as the founder of the Sulzer Brothers engineering and manufacturing company.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Johann Jakob Sulzer
Target entity description: Johann Jakob Sulzer was a 19th-century Swiss industrialist and engineer best known as the founder of the Sulzer Brothers engineering and manufacturing company.
  • A. Johann Georg Sulzer
    Johann Georg Sulzer was an 18th-century Swiss philosopher and aesthetician known for his influential writings on art theory, education, and Enlightenment thought.
  • B. Christian Gotthilf Salzmann
    Christian Gotthilf Salzmann was an 18th-century German Protestant pastor and educational reformer best known for founding the Schnepfenthal educational institute and promoting progressive, child-centered pedagogy.
  • C. Johann Georg Bühler
    Johann Georg Bühler was a 19th-century German Indologist and epigraphist known for his pioneering research on ancient Indian scripts, law codes, and Sanskrit literature.
  • D. Carl Sulzer
    Carl Sulzer was a mountaineer known for participating in pioneering ascents in the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia, Canada.
  • E. Johann Jakob Wettstein
    Johann Jakob Wettstein was an 18th-century Swiss theologian and pioneering New Testament textual critic known for his influential work on cataloguing and analyzing biblical manuscripts.
  • 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_69e0c47d74488190a15119108794a307 completed April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1233d096c8190af0d7cd21879c91b completed April 28, 2026, 9:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a7b58ee848190b91e6661ec2052cd completed May 18, 2026, 2:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a7c8323fc8190b1737d7b85103e98 completed May 18, 2026, 2:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a7d372e30819085fcbbf83a9f5e0a completed May 18, 2026, 2:45 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 7:45 p.m.