Triple

T21977114
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Owen Gingerich E542733 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Gingerich
Gingerich is a surname of Germanic origin commonly associated with families of Mennonite and Amish heritage.
 E1511486 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: Gingerich | Statement: [Owen Gingerich, familyName, Gingerich]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Gingerich
Context triple: [Owen Gingerich, familyName, Gingerich]
  • A. Everhart
    Everhart is a surname of English and German origin that is borne by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
  • B. Koldewey
    Koldewey is a German surname most notably associated with Robert Koldewey, the archaeologist who led the excavation of ancient Babylon.
  • C. Sagan
    Sagan is a surname most famously associated with astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan and his family.
  • D. Sagan
    Sagan is a town in present-day Żagań, Poland, historically known as a center where the astronomer Johannes Kepler conducted part of his scientific work.
  • E. Borucki
    Borucki is the surname of William J. Borucki, an American space scientist known for his pioneering work on NASA’s Kepler mission to discover exoplanets.
  • 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: Gingerich
Triple: [Owen Gingerich, familyName, Gingerich]
Generated description
Gingerich is a surname of Germanic origin commonly associated with families of Mennonite and Amish heritage.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Gingerich
Target entity description: Gingerich is a surname of Germanic origin commonly associated with families of Mennonite and Amish heritage.
  • A. Everhart
    Everhart is a surname of English and German origin that is borne by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
  • B. Koldewey
    Koldewey is a German surname most notably associated with Robert Koldewey, the archaeologist who led the excavation of ancient Babylon.
  • C. Sagan
    Sagan is a surname most famously associated with astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan and his family.
  • D. Sagan
    Sagan is a town in present-day Żagań, Poland, historically known as a center where the astronomer Johannes Kepler conducted part of his scientific work.
  • E. Borucki
    Borucki is the surname of William J. Borucki, an American space scientist known for his pioneering work on NASA’s Kepler mission to discover exoplanets.
  • 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_69e0c48070988190909db97667b9a0ac completed April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f12489889c81909c847cf2f6808d85 completed April 28, 2026, 9:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a6d731c64819099fd3188eda0a5bf completed May 18, 2026, 1:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a6e05677c819082f0613fbf6aeff0 completed May 18, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a6e93dfe88190bcddd1802017ddea completed May 18, 2026, 1:42 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:03 p.m.