Triple

T308678
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Norman Finkelstein E6355 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Zacharias Finkelstein
Zacharias Finkelstein was the father of American political scientist and Holocaust scholar Norman Finkelstein.
E60960 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: Zacharias Finkelstein | Statement: [Norman Finkelstein, father, Zacharias Finkelstein]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zacharias Finkelstein
Context triple: [Norman Finkelstein, father, Zacharias Finkelstein]
  • A. Max Zaslofsky
    Max Zaslofsky was an American professional basketball player and coach, best known as one of the NBA’s early scoring stars and later a coach in the league.
  • B. Leo Friedlander
    Leo Friedlander was an American sculptor known for his large-scale public monuments and architectural sculpture, particularly in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Yakov Rechter
    Yakov Rechter was a prominent Israeli architect known for his modernist public buildings and cultural institutions, which helped shape the architectural landscape of Israel in the 20th century.
  • D. Adolph Fischer
    Adolph Fischer was a German-American labor activist and anarchist who became one of the executed Haymarket Martyrs following the 1886 labor protests in Chicago.
  • E. Christian Heurich
    Christian Heurich was a prominent German-American brewer and businessman in Washington, D.C., best known for founding the Christian Heurich Brewing Company and for his historic mansion that now serves as the Heurich House Museum.
  • 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: Zacharias Finkelstein
Triple: [Norman Finkelstein, father, Zacharias Finkelstein]
Generated description
Zacharias Finkelstein was the father of American political scientist and Holocaust scholar Norman Finkelstein.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zacharias Finkelstein
Target entity description: Zacharias Finkelstein was the father of American political scientist and Holocaust scholar Norman Finkelstein.
  • A. Max Zaslofsky
    Max Zaslofsky was an American professional basketball player and coach, best known as one of the NBA’s early scoring stars and later a coach in the league.
  • B. Leo Friedlander
    Leo Friedlander was an American sculptor known for his large-scale public monuments and architectural sculpture, particularly in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Yakov Rechter
    Yakov Rechter was a prominent Israeli architect known for his modernist public buildings and cultural institutions, which helped shape the architectural landscape of Israel in the 20th century.
  • D. Adolph Fischer
    Adolph Fischer was a German-American labor activist and anarchist who became one of the executed Haymarket Martyrs following the 1886 labor protests in Chicago.
  • E. Christian Heurich
    Christian Heurich was a prominent German-American brewer and businessman in Washington, D.C., best known for founding the Christian Heurich Brewing Company and for his historic mansion that now serves as the Heurich House Museum.
  • 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_69a2e79230508190b912ecb555aae17e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ea3289608190a36c20a47761c6e4 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4746825348190892c8f6341796dac completed March 1, 2026, 5:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a475b504248190a1aaaafb8a592209 completed March 1, 2026, 5:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4762960748190b6d7aeb89eb13495 completed March 1, 2026, 5:23 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.