Triple

T21157486
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ambassador of South Africa to the United States E521348 entity
Predicate officeHoldersInclude P537 FINISHED
Object Johan H. Adam
Johan H. Adam is a South African diplomat who has served as his country’s ambassador to the United States.
E1470294 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: Johan H. Adam | Statement: [Ambassador of South Africa to the United States, officeHoldersInclude, Johan H. Adam]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Johan H. Adam
Context triple: [Ambassador of South Africa to the United States, officeHoldersInclude, Johan H. Adam]
  • A. Ernst J. Berg
    Ernst J. Berg was an electrical engineer and educator known for his contributions to early radio engineering and for helping establish electrical engineering as an academic discipline in the United States.
  • B. Albert Jonsen
    Albert Jonsen was an American bioethicist and historian of medical ethics known for reviving and defending the tradition of casuistry in moral reasoning.
  • C. Johan Frølich
    Johan Frølich was a Norwegian nobleman and landowner of the 18th century, known primarily as the father of the prominent salon hostess and landowner Cecilie Christine Schøller.
  • D. Frederik Wiedmann
    Frederik Wiedmann is a German composer best known for his work on film and television scores, particularly in the science fiction, horror, and animated superhero genres.
  • E. Wilhelm Hauers
    Wilhelm Hauers was a German architect best known for co-designing Hamburg City Hall in the late 19th century.
  • 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: Johan H. Adam
Triple: [Ambassador of South Africa to the United States, officeHoldersInclude, Johan H. Adam]
Generated description
Johan H. Adam is a South African diplomat who has served as his country’s ambassador to the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Johan H. Adam
Target entity description: Johan H. Adam is a South African diplomat who has served as his country’s ambassador to the United States.
  • A. Ernst J. Berg
    Ernst J. Berg was an electrical engineer and educator known for his contributions to early radio engineering and for helping establish electrical engineering as an academic discipline in the United States.
  • B. Albert Jonsen
    Albert Jonsen was an American bioethicist and historian of medical ethics known for reviving and defending the tradition of casuistry in moral reasoning.
  • C. Johan Frølich
    Johan Frølich was a Norwegian nobleman and landowner of the 18th century, known primarily as the father of the prominent salon hostess and landowner Cecilie Christine Schøller.
  • D. Frederik Wiedmann
    Frederik Wiedmann is a German composer best known for his work on film and television scores, particularly in the science fiction, horror, and animated superhero genres.
  • E. Wilhelm Hauers
    Wilhelm Hauers was a German architect best known for co-designing Hamburg City Hall in the late 19th century.
  • 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_69e0b50d1ea481909c07e63c3ead9316 completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e7252dc3f0819094c6acf52a9f308d completed April 21, 2026, 7:20 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09756bc7c48190933b1d92f2acc5e5 completed May 17, 2026, 7:59 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09764338fc8190be908a6fa9457d18 completed May 17, 2026, 8:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0978016f188190b8e2d2c7b1b01977 completed May 17, 2026, 8:10 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:59 p.m.