Triple

T12013540
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject UEFA Euro 1996 E285964 entity
Predicate bestPlayer P2630 FINISHED
Object Matthias Sammer
Matthias Sammer is a former German footballer and sweeper renowned for his influential role in Germany’s Euro 1996 triumph and for winning the 1996 Ballon d’Or.
E960662 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: Matthias Sammer | Statement: [UEFA Euro 1996, bestPlayer, Matthias Sammer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Matthias Sammer
Context triple: [UEFA Euro 1996, bestPlayer, Matthias Sammer]
  • A. Rudi Völler
    Rudi Völler is a renowned former German football striker and manager, best known for his prolific international career with West Germany and later roles as a coach and sporting director.
  • B. Lothar Matthäus
    Lothar Matthäus is a legendary German footballer widely regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of all time, known for captaining West Germany to victory at the 1990 FIFA World Cup and winning the Ballon d'Or the same year.
  • C. Ottmar Hitzfeld
    Ottmar Hitzfeld is a highly successful German football manager and former player, best known for winning multiple domestic and European titles with top clubs and the Swiss national team.
  • D. Uwe Schmidt
    Uwe Schmidt is a German electronic musician and producer, also known by aliases such as Atom™ and Señor Coconut, recognized for his experimental and genre-blending work in electronic music.
  • E. Joachim Löw
    Joachim Löw is a German football manager best known for leading Germany’s national team to victory at the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
  • 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: Matthias Sammer
Triple: [UEFA Euro 1996, bestPlayer, Matthias Sammer]
Generated description
Matthias Sammer is a former German footballer and sweeper renowned for his influential role in Germany’s Euro 1996 triumph and for winning the 1996 Ballon d’Or.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Matthias Sammer
Target entity description: Matthias Sammer is a former German footballer and sweeper renowned for his influential role in Germany’s Euro 1996 triumph and for winning the 1996 Ballon d’Or.
  • A. Rudi Völler
    Rudi Völler is a renowned former German football striker and manager, best known for his prolific international career with West Germany and later roles as a coach and sporting director.
  • B. Lothar Matthäus
    Lothar Matthäus is a legendary German footballer widely regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of all time, known for captaining West Germany to victory at the 1990 FIFA World Cup and winning the Ballon d'Or the same year.
  • C. Ottmar Hitzfeld
    Ottmar Hitzfeld is a highly successful German football manager and former player, best known for winning multiple domestic and European titles with top clubs and the Swiss national team.
  • D. Uwe Schmidt
    Uwe Schmidt is a German electronic musician and producer, also known by aliases such as Atom™ and Señor Coconut, recognized for his experimental and genre-blending work in electronic music.
  • E. Joachim Löw
    Joachim Löw is a German football manager best known for leading Germany’s national team to victory at the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
  • 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_69d6ab45a368819084fce08bf0dc3705 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d903d884488190b4450a98088208ef completed April 10, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f48b4535f48190ac5b2cabb4daf4af completed May 1, 2026, 11:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f490cb9328819095481a4d0fb0c625 completed May 1, 2026, 11:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f495cc50908190aab4f8ca64c66ef3 completed May 1, 2026, noon
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:46 p.m.