Triple

T225753
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject ETH Zurich E4310 entity
Predicate hasAlumni P51 FINISHED
Object Wolfgang Pauli
Wolfgang Pauli was an Austrian-Swiss theoretical physicist renowned for formulating the Pauli exclusion principle and making foundational contributions to quantum mechanics.
 E46659 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: Wolfgang Pauli | Statement: [ETH Zurich, hasAlumni, Wolfgang Pauli]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Wolfgang Pauli
Context triple: [ETH Zurich, hasAlumni, Wolfgang Pauli]
  • A. Eugene Wigner
    Eugene Wigner was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate whose pioneering work in quantum mechanics and the theory of symmetries profoundly shaped modern physics.
  • B. Otto Frisch
    Otto Frisch was an Austrian-British physicist best known for co-discovering nuclear fission and contributing to the early development of atomic weapons during World War II.
  • C. Max Born
    Max Born was a German physicist and Nobel laureate who made foundational contributions to quantum mechanics, particularly in the statistical interpretation of the wave function.
  • D. Arnold Sommerfeld
    Arnold Sommerfeld was a pioneering German theoretical physicist whose work in atomic and quantum theory significantly shaped modern physics and influenced generations of prominent scientists.
  • E. Werner Heisenberg
    Werner Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist best known as a pioneer of quantum mechanics and the originator of the uncertainty principle.
  • 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: Wolfgang Pauli
Triple: [ETH Zurich, hasAlumni, Wolfgang Pauli]
Generated description
Wolfgang Pauli was an Austrian-Swiss theoretical physicist renowned for formulating the Pauli exclusion principle and making foundational contributions to quantum mechanics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Wolfgang Pauli
Target entity description: Wolfgang Pauli was an Austrian-Swiss theoretical physicist renowned for formulating the Pauli exclusion principle and making foundational contributions to quantum mechanics.
  • A. Eugene Wigner
    Eugene Wigner was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate whose pioneering work in quantum mechanics and the theory of symmetries profoundly shaped modern physics.
  • B. Otto Frisch
    Otto Frisch was an Austrian-British physicist best known for co-discovering nuclear fission and contributing to the early development of atomic weapons during World War II.
  • C. Max Born
    Max Born was a German physicist and Nobel laureate who made foundational contributions to quantum mechanics, particularly in the statistical interpretation of the wave function.
  • D. Arnold Sommerfeld
    Arnold Sommerfeld was a pioneering German theoretical physicist whose work in atomic and quantum theory significantly shaped modern physics and influenced generations of prominent scientists.
  • E. Werner Heisenberg
    Werner Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist best known as a pioneer of quantum mechanics and the originator of the uncertainty principle.
  • 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_69a257363ffc81909757bde7ab3404da completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25c8d97d08190ad7c1c3e9322f34c completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3eca25d9081909fe6d2ed2cda16d9 completed March 1, 2026, 7:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3ed0d206481909262153335fce288 completed March 1, 2026, 7:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3edc8ed488190960cc2deb83e6dc9 completed March 1, 2026, 7:42 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:53 a.m.