Triple

T11406813

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Menno van Coehoorn	`E270258`	entity
Predicate	influencedBy	`P9`	FINISHED
Object	Dutch school of military engineering The Dutch school of military engineering was a 17th-century tradition of fortification design and siegecraft, characterized by innovative low-profile, water-based defenses that influenced leading engineers like Menno van Coehoorn.	`E923945`	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: Dutch school of military engineering | Statement: [Menno van Coehoorn, influencedBy, Dutch school of military engineering]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Dutch school of military engineering
Context triple: [Menno van Coehoorn, influencedBy, Dutch school of military engineering]

A. Royal Military Academy, Breda
The Royal Military Academy in Breda is a Dutch military institution that trains officers for the armed forces, historically attended by members of the royal family.
B. Royal Netherlands Army Engineers
The Royal Netherlands Army Engineers are a specialized corps responsible for military engineering tasks such as construction, fortification, mobility support, and explosive ordnance operations within the Dutch Army.
C. Italian school of fortification
The Italian school of fortification was a Renaissance-era tradition of military engineering that pioneered systematic, geometric bastioned defenses and strongly influenced fortress design across Europe.
D. Europeesche Lagere School
Europeesche Lagere School was a Dutch colonial-era European primary school in the Dutch East Indies that provided Western-style education primarily to Europeans and select indigenous elites.
E. Amsterdam city defense system
The Amsterdam city defense system was the historical network of fortifications, militias, and protective works that safeguarded the city of Amsterdam from external threats.
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: Dutch school of military engineering
Triple: [Menno van Coehoorn, influencedBy, Dutch school of military engineering]

Generated description

The Dutch school of military engineering was a 17th-century tradition of fortification design and siegecraft, characterized by innovative low-profile, water-based defenses that influenced leading engineers like Menno van Coehoorn.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Dutch school of military engineering
Target entity description: The Dutch school of military engineering was a 17th-century tradition of fortification design and siegecraft, characterized by innovative low-profile, water-based defenses that influenced leading engineers like Menno van Coehoorn.

A. Royal Military Academy, Breda
The Royal Military Academy in Breda is a Dutch military institution that trains officers for the armed forces, historically attended by members of the royal family.
B. Royal Netherlands Army Engineers
The Royal Netherlands Army Engineers are a specialized corps responsible for military engineering tasks such as construction, fortification, mobility support, and explosive ordnance operations within the Dutch Army.
C. Italian school of fortification
The Italian school of fortification was a Renaissance-era tradition of military engineering that pioneered systematic, geometric bastioned defenses and strongly influenced fortress design across Europe.
D. Europeesche Lagere School
Europeesche Lagere School was a Dutch colonial-era European primary school in the Dutch East Indies that provided Western-style education primarily to Europeans and select indigenous elites.
E. Amsterdam city defense system
The Amsterdam city defense system was the historical network of fortifications, militias, and protective works that safeguarded the city of Amsterdam from external threats.
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_69d6aaddeaa8819088b30ef7b50598c9`	completed	April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69d8014c820c81908538ba4a08e13230`	completed	April 9, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_69e58d56608481908dbb19daa2abfc0a`	completed	April 20, 2026, 2:20 a.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_69e59777b1208190a33a50da286535ee`	completed	April 20, 2026, 3:03 a.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_69e5a3cf9d388190944340af484b3a54`	completed	April 20, 2026, 3:55 a.m.

Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:34 p.m.