Triple

T2566519
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Wyler E57363 entity
Predicate birthPlace P1 FINISHED
Object Mülhausen, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire
Mülhausen, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire was a historically contested industrial city in the Alsace region that belonged to the German Empire at the time of filmmaker William Wyler’s birth.
E279147 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: Mülhausen, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire | Statement: [William Wyler, birthPlace, Mülhausen, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mülhausen, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire
Context triple: [William Wyler, birthPlace, Mülhausen, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire]
  • A. Straßburg, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire
    Straßburg, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire was a major city in the historically contested Alsace-Lorraine region, then part of the German Empire and known for its strategic and cultural significance on the Franco-German border.
  • B. Breitenau, Hesse-Nassau, German Empire
    Breitenau, Hesse-Nassau, German Empire was a locality in the former Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau, known as the birthplace of German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus.
  • C. Mühlhausen, Prussia
    Mühlhausen, Prussia was a town in the former Kingdom of Prussia, notable as the birthplace of civil engineer and bridge designer John A. Roebling.
  • D. Nieder-Saulheim, Grand Duchy of Hesse
    Nieder-Saulheim in the Grand Duchy of Hesse was a 19th-century German locality notable as the birthplace of lumber magnate Frederick Weyerhaeuser.
  • E. Waldstadt, Grand Duchy of Baden
    Waldstadt, Grand Duchy of Baden was a locality in the historic southwest German state of Baden, which existed as a grand duchy within the German Confederation and later the German Empire.
  • 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: Mülhausen, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire
Triple: [William Wyler, birthPlace, Mülhausen, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire]
Generated description
Mülhausen, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire was a historically contested industrial city in the Alsace region that belonged to the German Empire at the time of filmmaker William Wyler’s birth.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mülhausen, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire
Target entity description: Mülhausen, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire was a historically contested industrial city in the Alsace region that belonged to the German Empire at the time of filmmaker William Wyler’s birth.
  • A. Straßburg, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire
    Straßburg, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire was a major city in the historically contested Alsace-Lorraine region, then part of the German Empire and known for its strategic and cultural significance on the Franco-German border.
  • B. Breitenau, Hesse-Nassau, German Empire
    Breitenau, Hesse-Nassau, German Empire was a locality in the former Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau, known as the birthplace of German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus.
  • C. Mühlhausen, Prussia
    Mühlhausen, Prussia was a town in the former Kingdom of Prussia, notable as the birthplace of civil engineer and bridge designer John A. Roebling.
  • D. Nieder-Saulheim, Grand Duchy of Hesse
    Nieder-Saulheim in the Grand Duchy of Hesse was a 19th-century German locality notable as the birthplace of lumber magnate Frederick Weyerhaeuser.
  • E. Waldstadt, Grand Duchy of Baden
    Waldstadt, Grand Duchy of Baden was a locality in the historic southwest German state of Baden, which existed as a grand duchy within the German Confederation and later the German Empire.
  • 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_69ab4a4ef9008190a0e6d4422b9418b7 completed March 6, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd35ef22c8190966612cc75f69eca completed March 7, 2026, 7:27 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af6565e05081909dc12aa3240de5f2 completed March 10, 2026, 12:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af667c6b008190b3960f29f5e07653 completed March 10, 2026, 12:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af6740cd2c8190a76309238340bd22 completed March 10, 2026, 12:35 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:48 p.m.