Triple

T326965
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Hilbert E6540 entity
Predicate doctoralStudent P167 FINISHED
Object Richard Courant
Richard Courant was a German-American mathematician known for his influential work in analysis and partial differential equations and for co-founding the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.
E44231 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: Richard Courant | Statement: [David Hilbert, doctoralStudent, Richard Courant]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Courant
Context triple: [David Hilbert, doctoralStudent, Richard Courant]
  • A. Constantin Carathéodory
    Constantin Carathéodory was a prominent Greek-German mathematician known for his influential work in real analysis, the calculus of variations, and the foundations of thermodynamics.
  • B. Hermann Weyl
    Hermann Weyl was a German mathematician and theoretical physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to group theory, differential geometry, and the mathematical formulation of gauge theory in modern physics.
  • C. Felix Klein
    Felix Klein was a German mathematician renowned for his work in group theory, non-Euclidean geometry, and the Erlangen Program, which redefined the foundations of geometry.
  • D. Bartel Leendert van der Waerden
    Bartel Leendert van der Waerden was a Dutch mathematician best known for his foundational work in abstract algebra and contributions to algebraic geometry and number theory.
  • E. David Hilbert
    David Hilbert was a pioneering German mathematician whose foundational work in fields such as invariant theory, axiomatic systems, and functional analysis profoundly shaped modern mathematics.
  • 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: Richard Courant
Triple: [David Hilbert, doctoralStudent, Richard Courant]
Generated description
Richard Courant was a German-American mathematician known for his influential work in analysis and partial differential equations and for co-founding the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Courant
Target entity description: Richard Courant was a German-American mathematician known for his influential work in analysis and partial differential equations and for co-founding the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.
  • A. Constantin Carathéodory
    Constantin Carathéodory was a prominent Greek-German mathematician known for his influential work in real analysis, the calculus of variations, and the foundations of thermodynamics.
  • B. Hermann Weyl
    Hermann Weyl was a German mathematician and theoretical physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to group theory, differential geometry, and the mathematical formulation of gauge theory in modern physics.
  • C. Felix Klein
    Felix Klein was a German mathematician renowned for his work in group theory, non-Euclidean geometry, and the Erlangen Program, which redefined the foundations of geometry.
  • D. Bartel Leendert van der Waerden
    Bartel Leendert van der Waerden was a Dutch mathematician best known for his foundational work in abstract algebra and contributions to algebraic geometry and number theory.
  • E. David Hilbert
    David Hilbert was a pioneering German mathematician whose foundational work in fields such as invariant theory, axiomatic systems, and functional analysis profoundly shaped modern mathematics.
  • 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_69a2e7933d6c8190bb2592ad13286ef2 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ea974d8481908c7d84f72a7728b6 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3d7e47f1c8190a4152dcb5c662514 completed March 1, 2026, 6:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3d8bb23ec8190ad43b6caf3fc6375 completed March 1, 2026, 6:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3d9561b4481908eeae315ebfff931 completed March 1, 2026, 6:14 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.