Triple

T16589521
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Stern–Gerlach Medal E403045 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Walther Gerlach
Walther Gerlach was a German physicist best known for co-conducting the Stern–Gerlach experiment, which provided key evidence for quantum spin and space quantization.
E1224357 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: Walther Gerlach | Statement: [Stern–Gerlach Medal, namedAfter, Walther Gerlach]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walther Gerlach
Context triple: [Stern–Gerlach Medal, namedAfter, Walther Gerlach]
  • A. Otto Stern
    Otto Stern was a German physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in molecular beams and quantum physics, including the famous Stern–Gerlach experiment.
  • B. Julius Plücker
    Julius Plücker was a 19th-century German mathematician and physicist known for his pioneering work in analytic and projective geometry as well as early contributions to spectroscopy.
  • C. Gustav Hertz
    Gustav Hertz was a German physicist and Nobel laureate best known for the Franck–Hertz experiment, which provided key evidence for the quantization of energy levels in atoms.
  • D. Hans Peter Hallwachs
    Hans Peter Hallwachs was a German actor known for his extensive work in film, television, and theater from the 1960s onward.
  • E. Alfred Landé
    Alfred Landé was a German-American physicist best known for his work in quantum theory and atomic spectroscopy, including the introduction of the Landé g-factor.
  • 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: Walther Gerlach
Triple: [Stern–Gerlach Medal, namedAfter, Walther Gerlach]
Generated description
Walther Gerlach was a German physicist best known for co-conducting the Stern–Gerlach experiment, which provided key evidence for quantum spin and space quantization.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walther Gerlach
Target entity description: Walther Gerlach was a German physicist best known for co-conducting the Stern–Gerlach experiment, which provided key evidence for quantum spin and space quantization.
  • A. Otto Stern
    Otto Stern was a German physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in molecular beams and quantum physics, including the famous Stern–Gerlach experiment.
  • B. Julius Plücker
    Julius Plücker was a 19th-century German mathematician and physicist known for his pioneering work in analytic and projective geometry as well as early contributions to spectroscopy.
  • C. Gustav Hertz
    Gustav Hertz was a German physicist and Nobel laureate best known for the Franck–Hertz experiment, which provided key evidence for the quantization of energy levels in atoms.
  • D. Hans Peter Hallwachs
    Hans Peter Hallwachs was a German actor known for his extensive work in film, television, and theater from the 1960s onward.
  • E. Alfred Landé
    Alfred Landé was a German-American physicist best known for his work in quantum theory and atomic spectroscopy, including the introduction of the Landé g-factor.
  • 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_69d88387363c8190a97a0c942130de97 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3599f3d18819082b3e6eef5506731 completed April 18, 2026, 10:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a007da6d6f08190a8524b1c955b7c2e completed May 10, 2026, 12:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a007ee625c48190a7a97f34d5788808 completed May 10, 2026, 12:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a007f7929ac819092724e6efc57c924 completed May 10, 2026, 12:52 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:16 a.m.