Triple

T3359270
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lalande Prize E70679 entity
Predicate hasNotableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Friedrich Zöllner
Friedrich Zöllner was a German astronomer and astrophysicist known for his work on photometry, stellar classification, and early investigations into the nature of comets and the zodiacal light.
E353106 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: Friedrich Zöllner | Statement: [Lalande Prize, hasNotableRecipient, Friedrich Zöllner]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Friedrich Zöllner
Context triple: [Lalande Prize, hasNotableRecipient, Friedrich Zöllner]
  • A. Ludwig Borchardt
    Ludwig Borchardt was a German Egyptologist and archaeologist best known for his early 20th-century excavations in Egypt and the discovery of the bust of Nefertiti.
  • B. Georg-Hans Reinhardt
    Georg-Hans Reinhardt was a German Wehrmacht colonel general who commanded Army Group Centre on the Eastern Front during World War II and was later convicted as a war criminal.
  • C. Franz Pökler
    Franz Pökler is a German rocket engineer in Thomas Pynchon’s novel "Gravity’s Rainbow," whose work on the V-2 program is intertwined with themes of coercion, guilt, and the dehumanizing machinery of war.
  • D. Philipp Ludwig von Seidel
    Philipp Ludwig von Seidel was a 19th-century German mathematician known for his contributions to numerical analysis and optics, including work that led to the Gauss–Seidel iterative method.
  • E. Eduard Zeller
    Eduard Zeller was a 19th-century German philosopher and historian of philosophy, best known for his influential multi-volume work on the philosophy of the ancient Greeks.
  • 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: Friedrich Zöllner
Triple: [Lalande Prize, hasNotableRecipient, Friedrich Zöllner]
Generated description
Friedrich Zöllner was a German astronomer and astrophysicist known for his work on photometry, stellar classification, and early investigations into the nature of comets and the zodiacal light.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Friedrich Zöllner
Target entity description: Friedrich Zöllner was a German astronomer and astrophysicist known for his work on photometry, stellar classification, and early investigations into the nature of comets and the zodiacal light.
  • A. Ludwig Borchardt
    Ludwig Borchardt was a German Egyptologist and archaeologist best known for his early 20th-century excavations in Egypt and the discovery of the bust of Nefertiti.
  • B. Georg-Hans Reinhardt
    Georg-Hans Reinhardt was a German Wehrmacht colonel general who commanded Army Group Centre on the Eastern Front during World War II and was later convicted as a war criminal.
  • C. Franz Pökler
    Franz Pökler is a German rocket engineer in Thomas Pynchon’s novel "Gravity’s Rainbow," whose work on the V-2 program is intertwined with themes of coercion, guilt, and the dehumanizing machinery of war.
  • D. Philipp Ludwig von Seidel
    Philipp Ludwig von Seidel was a 19th-century German mathematician known for his contributions to numerical analysis and optics, including work that led to the Gauss–Seidel iterative method.
  • E. Eduard Zeller
    Eduard Zeller was a 19th-century German philosopher and historian of philosophy, best known for his influential multi-volume work on the philosophy of the ancient Greeks.
  • 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_69ad85a660c48190998489309a3b4869 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb266c4a881908aded39ccb8f43b2 completed March 8, 2026, 5:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b3342fed748190814da1b968015d43 completed March 12, 2026, 9:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b337ff20fc8190ab838866f14a36d4 completed March 12, 2026, 10:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b338ce8fb48190a6983a72d4cc1b5d completed March 12, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:13 p.m.