Triple

T130809
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hermann Minkowski E2649 entity
Predicate placeOfBirth P1 FINISHED
Object Kaunas
Kaunas is the second-largest city in Lithuania, known as a historic cultural and academic center located at the confluence of the Nemunas and Neris rivers.
E14945 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: Kaunas | Statement: [Hermann Minkowski, placeOfBirth, Kaunas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kaunas
Context triple: [Hermann Minkowski, placeOfBirth, Kaunas]
  • A. Wilno
    Wilno is the historical Polish name for Vilnius, a major cultural and political center of the region that served as an important city in the interwar Second Polish Republic.
  • B. Warsaw
    Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland, known for its resilient history, especially its near-total destruction in World War II and subsequent postwar reconstruction.
  • C. Lutsk
    Lutsk is a historic city in northwestern Ukraine, known as the administrative center of Volyn Oblast and one of the region’s oldest cultural and economic hubs.
  • D. Lwów
    Lwów is a historic city in Eastern Europe, now known as Lviv in western Ukraine, long recognized as a major cultural and political center of the region.
  • E. Gdynia
    Gdynia is a major seaport city on Poland’s Baltic coast, developed rapidly in the 20th century into one of the country’s key maritime and economic centers.
  • 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: Kaunas
Triple: [Hermann Minkowski, placeOfBirth, Kaunas]
Generated description
Kaunas is the second-largest city in Lithuania, known as a historic cultural and academic center located at the confluence of the Nemunas and Neris rivers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kaunas
Target entity description: Kaunas is the second-largest city in Lithuania, known as a historic cultural and academic center located at the confluence of the Nemunas and Neris rivers.
  • A. Wilno
    Wilno is the historical Polish name for Vilnius, a major cultural and political center of the region that served as an important city in the interwar Second Polish Republic.
  • B. Warsaw
    Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland, known for its resilient history, especially its near-total destruction in World War II and subsequent postwar reconstruction.
  • C. Lutsk
    Lutsk is a historic city in northwestern Ukraine, known as the administrative center of Volyn Oblast and one of the region’s oldest cultural and economic hubs.
  • D. Lwów
    Lwów is a historic city in Eastern Europe, now known as Lviv in western Ukraine, long recognized as a major cultural and political center of the region.
  • E. Gdynia
    Gdynia is a major seaport city on Poland’s Baltic coast, developed rapidly in the 20th century into one of the country’s key maritime and economic centers.
  • 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_69a2520c0f3481908b0ed054a2fca8d0 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25785ad5c819097c00f31719fea7e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2a3d73bf08190b0c3dd227206cab0 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 8:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2a50e4bec8190ab7e27d852460f67 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 8:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2a624eaf48190a7c31047832cbf34 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 8:24 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:30 a.m.