Triple

T23157608
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Marx generator E578486 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Erwin Otto Marx
Erwin Otto Marx was a German electrical engineer best known for inventing the Marx generator, a high-voltage pulse generator widely used in research and testing.
E1575755 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: Erwin Otto Marx | Statement: [Marx generator, namedAfter, Erwin Otto Marx]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Erwin Otto Marx
Context triple: [Marx generator, namedAfter, Erwin Otto Marx]
  • A. Herbert Manfred Marx
    Herbert Manfred Marx, better known as Zeppo Marx, was the youngest of the Marx Brothers and appeared as the straight man in their early comedy films before becoming a successful engineer and theatrical agent.
  • B. Hermann Marx
    Hermann Marx was a member of the Marx family of Trier, known primarily as a son of the lawyer Heinrich Marx and thus part of the extended family circle of Karl Marx.
  • C. Julius Henry Marx
    Julius Henry Marx, better known as Groucho Marx, was a legendary American comedian and film star famed for his quick wit, distinctive mustache, and role in the Marx Brothers comedy team.
  • D. Karl Rankl
    Karl Rankl was an Austrian-born conductor and composer best known for his influential post-war work in British orchestral and operatic music.
  • E. Oskar Fischer
    Oskar Fischer was a German neurologist and psychiatrist known for his early research on dementia and the pathological changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
  • 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: Erwin Otto Marx
Triple: [Marx generator, namedAfter, Erwin Otto Marx]
Generated description
Erwin Otto Marx was a German electrical engineer best known for inventing the Marx generator, a high-voltage pulse generator widely used in research and testing.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Erwin Otto Marx
Target entity description: Erwin Otto Marx was a German electrical engineer best known for inventing the Marx generator, a high-voltage pulse generator widely used in research and testing.
  • A. Herbert Manfred Marx
    Herbert Manfred Marx, better known as Zeppo Marx, was the youngest of the Marx Brothers and appeared as the straight man in their early comedy films before becoming a successful engineer and theatrical agent.
  • B. Hermann Marx
    Hermann Marx was a member of the Marx family of Trier, known primarily as a son of the lawyer Heinrich Marx and thus part of the extended family circle of Karl Marx.
  • C. Julius Henry Marx
    Julius Henry Marx, better known as Groucho Marx, was a legendary American comedian and film star famed for his quick wit, distinctive mustache, and role in the Marx Brothers comedy team.
  • D. Karl Rankl
    Karl Rankl was an Austrian-born conductor and composer best known for his influential post-war work in British orchestral and operatic music.
  • E. Oskar Fischer
    Oskar Fischer was a German neurologist and psychiatrist known for his early research on dementia and the pathological changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
  • 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_69e245fb8de081908f0eba7b5fd75bc4 completed April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f18efe1b0081908e81b757d64c067c completed April 29, 2026, 4:54 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c309e4518819095eb3d8a6f6a0808 completed May 19, 2026, 9:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c332f5ef08190ab7f6536eb719e04 completed May 19, 2026, 9:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c374ded1c8190b1d5c7a3ab521cf9 completed May 19, 2026, 10:11 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:01 p.m.