Triple

T3582020
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject siege of Maastricht (1632) E75820 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Nicolaas van Brederode
Nicolaas van Brederode was a Dutch nobleman and military commander who served in the Eighty Years' War, notably leading forces in key campaigns against Spanish-held cities.
E371059 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: Nicolaas van Brederode | Statement: [siege of Maastricht (1632), commander, Nicolaas van Brederode]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicolaas van Brederode
Context triple: [siege of Maastricht (1632), commander, Nicolaas van Brederode]
  • A. Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen
    Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen was a 17th-century German-Dutch nobleman and military commander best known for his enlightened but expansionist rule over Dutch Brazil and his patronage of science and the arts.
  • B. Reinier de Graaf
    Reinier de Graaf was a 17th-century Dutch physician and anatomist renowned for his pioneering research on the female reproductive system and the discovery of ovarian follicles (now called Graafian follicles).
  • C. Cornelius van Baerle
    Cornelius van Baerle is the fictional, tulip-obsessed main character of Alexandre Dumas’ historical novel "The Black Tulip," whose passion for cultivating a rare flower drives the story’s intrigue and drama.
  • D. Jonkheer Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff
    Jonkheer Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff was a Dutch nobleman and statesman who served as a prominent colonial administrator in the early 20th century.
  • E. Cornelis de Witt
    Cornelis de Witt was a prominent 17th-century Dutch statesman and republican leader who, alongside his brother Johan de Witt, played a central role in the politics of the Dutch Republic before being murdered during the political turmoil of 1672.
  • 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: Nicolaas van Brederode
Triple: [siege of Maastricht (1632), commander, Nicolaas van Brederode]
Generated description
Nicolaas van Brederode was a Dutch nobleman and military commander who served in the Eighty Years' War, notably leading forces in key campaigns against Spanish-held cities.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicolaas van Brederode
Target entity description: Nicolaas van Brederode was a Dutch nobleman and military commander who served in the Eighty Years' War, notably leading forces in key campaigns against Spanish-held cities.
  • A. Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen
    Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen was a 17th-century German-Dutch nobleman and military commander best known for his enlightened but expansionist rule over Dutch Brazil and his patronage of science and the arts.
  • B. Reinier de Graaf
    Reinier de Graaf was a 17th-century Dutch physician and anatomist renowned for his pioneering research on the female reproductive system and the discovery of ovarian follicles (now called Graafian follicles).
  • C. Cornelius van Baerle
    Cornelius van Baerle is the fictional, tulip-obsessed main character of Alexandre Dumas’ historical novel "The Black Tulip," whose passion for cultivating a rare flower drives the story’s intrigue and drama.
  • D. Jonkheer Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff
    Jonkheer Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff was a Dutch nobleman and statesman who served as a prominent colonial administrator in the early 20th century.
  • E. Cornelis de Witt
    Cornelis de Witt was a prominent 17th-century Dutch statesman and republican leader who, alongside his brother Johan de Witt, played a central role in the politics of the Dutch Republic before being murdered during the political turmoil of 1672.
  • 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_69ad85d6dc3c8190b491b79b83e25461 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc102cb2881908fa4dc1bf6fa5961 completed March 8, 2026, 6:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b402f36b2481909d4716e72a696e0d completed March 13, 2026, 12:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b403b9e7ac8190917e7313279b1c46 completed March 13, 2026, 12:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4086f6da4819084778dffa33ef116 completed March 13, 2026, 12:51 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:21 p.m.