Triple
T17658604
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Scharfenberg coupler |
E440189
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Karl Scharfenberg |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Karl Scharfenberg | Statement: [Scharfenberg coupler, namedAfter, Karl Scharfenberg]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Karl Scharfenberg Context triple: [Scharfenberg coupler, namedAfter, Karl Scharfenberg]
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A.
Karl Pfirsch
Karl Pfirsch was a German industrialist who stood as a defendant in the Nuremberg Military Tribunal’s Case X for his involvement in Nazi-era economic activities.
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B.
Friedrich Winnecke
Friedrich Winnecke was a 19th-century German astronomer known for his work on comets and double stars.
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C.
Karl Schapper
Karl Schapper was a 19th-century German revolutionary and early communist activist who played a key role in the European workers' movement and the development of socialist organizations.
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D.
Karl von Fasbender
Karl von Fasbender was a German general of the Imperial German Army during World War I, noted for his leadership on the Western Front.
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E.
Karl Eberhardt
Karl Eberhardt is an individual known primarily for being a defendant in the NMT Case X war crimes trial held after World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Karl Scharfenberg Target entity description: Karl Scharfenberg was a German engineer best known for inventing the Scharfenberg coupler, a widely used automatic railway coupling system.
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A.
Karl Pfirsch
Karl Pfirsch was a German industrialist who stood as a defendant in the Nuremberg Military Tribunal’s Case X for his involvement in Nazi-era economic activities.
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B.
Friedrich Winnecke
Friedrich Winnecke was a 19th-century German astronomer known for his work on comets and double stars.
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C.
Karl Schapper
Karl Schapper was a 19th-century German revolutionary and early communist activist who played a key role in the European workers' movement and the development of socialist organizations.
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D.
Karl von Fasbender
Karl von Fasbender was a German general of the Imperial German Army during World War I, noted for his leadership on the Western Front.
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E.
Karl Eberhardt
Karl Eberhardt is an individual known primarily for being a defendant in the NMT Case X war crimes trial held after World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (2 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_69d8b9e87e18819087104a44dc4dc5b1 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e46ea3b4cc81908eec7032cf221d49 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 5:56 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 9:37 a.m.