Triple

T411456
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of the River Plate E9497 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Hans Langsdorff
Hans Langsdorff was a German naval officer and captain of the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, best known for his role and subsequent scuttling of the ship after the Battle of the River Plate in World War II.
E58783 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: Hans Langsdorff | Statement: [Battle of the River Plate, commander, Hans Langsdorff]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hans Langsdorff
Context triple: [Battle of the River Plate, commander, Hans Langsdorff]
  • A. Ernst Wilhelm Bohle
    Ernst Wilhelm Bohle was a high-ranking Nazi official who led the party’s Foreign Organization (NSDAP/AO) and was later tried as a defendant in the post–World War II Ministries Trial.
  • B. Wilhelm von Leeb
    Wilhelm von Leeb was a German field marshal in the Wehrmacht during World War II, best known for leading Army Group North in the invasion of the Soviet Union.
  • C. Otto von Kotzebue
    Otto von Kotzebue was a Baltic German naval officer and explorer in Russian service, best known for his early 19th-century voyages of discovery in the Pacific and Arctic regions.
  • D. Gustav von Seyffertitz
    Gustav von Seyffertitz was a German-born character actor of the silent and early sound film era, known for his distinctive aristocratic and often villainous roles in Hollywood cinema.
  • E. Hans Jordan
    Hans Jordan was a German Wehrmacht general during World War II who commanded Army Group Centre forces on the Eastern Front, notably during the Soviet summer offensive known as Operation Bagration.
  • 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: Hans Langsdorff
Triple: [Battle of the River Plate, commander, Hans Langsdorff]
Generated description
Hans Langsdorff was a German naval officer and captain of the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, best known for his role and subsequent scuttling of the ship after the Battle of the River Plate in World War II.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hans Langsdorff
Target entity description: Hans Langsdorff was a German naval officer and captain of the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, best known for his role and subsequent scuttling of the ship after the Battle of the River Plate in World War II.
  • A. Ernst Wilhelm Bohle
    Ernst Wilhelm Bohle was a high-ranking Nazi official who led the party’s Foreign Organization (NSDAP/AO) and was later tried as a defendant in the post–World War II Ministries Trial.
  • B. Wilhelm von Leeb
    Wilhelm von Leeb was a German field marshal in the Wehrmacht during World War II, best known for leading Army Group North in the invasion of the Soviet Union.
  • C. Otto von Kotzebue
    Otto von Kotzebue was a Baltic German naval officer and explorer in Russian service, best known for his early 19th-century voyages of discovery in the Pacific and Arctic regions.
  • D. Gustav von Seyffertitz
    Gustav von Seyffertitz was a German-born character actor of the silent and early sound film era, known for his distinctive aristocratic and often villainous roles in Hollywood cinema.
  • E. Hans Jordan
    Hans Jordan was a German Wehrmacht general during World War II who commanded Army Group Centre forces on the Eastern Front, notably during the Soviet summer offensive known as Operation Bagration.
  • 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_69a2e80111fc8190961d5b7c6154123f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ecdafa2481908111accc918ff2e8 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a457fba1d08190a8eb41271b59a693 completed March 1, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a45d7d7bc881908b0862cfe82b73c1 completed March 1, 2026, 3:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a45dd685cc819095bc100ce6c23a78 completed March 1, 2026, 3:40 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:09 p.m.