Triple

T1495142
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Walter Benjamin E29668 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel was a pioneering German sociologist and philosopher known for his analyses of social forms, modernity, and urban life, which significantly shaped 20th-century social theory.
E170478 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: Georg Simmel | Statement: [Walter Benjamin, influencedBy, Georg Simmel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Georg Simmel
Context triple: [Walter Benjamin, influencedBy, Georg Simmel]
  • A. Émile Durkheim
    Émile Durkheim was a pioneering French sociologist whose work on social cohesion, religion, and collective consciousness helped establish sociology as a distinct academic discipline.
  • B. Max Weber
    Max Weber was a pioneering German sociologist, economist, and political theorist whose work on bureaucracy, authority, and the Protestant ethic profoundly shaped modern social science.
  • C. Max Horkheimer
    Max Horkheimer was a German philosopher and sociologist, a leading member of the Frankfurt School, known for developing critical theory and critiquing modern capitalist society and instrumental reason.
  • D. Claude Lévi-Strauss
    Claude Lévi-Strauss was a pioneering French anthropologist and ethnologist whose structuralist analyses of myth and culture profoundly shaped 20th-century social theory.
  • E. Robert Nisbet
    Robert Nisbet was a 20th-century American sociologist and conservative social theorist known for his critiques of modern individualism and the erosion of traditional communities and intermediate institutions.
  • 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: Georg Simmel
Triple: [Walter Benjamin, influencedBy, Georg Simmel]
Generated description
Georg Simmel was a pioneering German sociologist and philosopher known for his analyses of social forms, modernity, and urban life, which significantly shaped 20th-century social theory.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Georg Simmel
Target entity description: Georg Simmel was a pioneering German sociologist and philosopher known for his analyses of social forms, modernity, and urban life, which significantly shaped 20th-century social theory.
  • A. Émile Durkheim
    Émile Durkheim was a pioneering French sociologist whose work on social cohesion, religion, and collective consciousness helped establish sociology as a distinct academic discipline.
  • B. Max Weber
    Max Weber was a pioneering German sociologist, economist, and political theorist whose work on bureaucracy, authority, and the Protestant ethic profoundly shaped modern social science.
  • C. Max Horkheimer
    Max Horkheimer was a German philosopher and sociologist, a leading member of the Frankfurt School, known for developing critical theory and critiquing modern capitalist society and instrumental reason.
  • D. Claude Lévi-Strauss
    Claude Lévi-Strauss was a pioneering French anthropologist and ethnologist whose structuralist analyses of myth and culture profoundly shaped 20th-century social theory.
  • E. Robert Nisbet
    Robert Nisbet was a 20th-century American sociologist and conservative social theorist known for his critiques of modern individualism and the erosion of traditional communities and intermediate institutions.
  • 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_69a498dba1d8819093b46a3a8d2485f1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c6c78c9481909b210b845aa6e9df completed March 1, 2026, 11:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad1cadb50481908788b5710f6012db completed March 8, 2026, 6:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad1deb982481908f542c233c9352ab completed March 8, 2026, 6:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad1e79aecc8190a4c7d0f30fdc7e63 completed March 8, 2026, 7 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:12 p.m.