Triple

T4243040
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Frits Zernike E95460 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Zernike
Zernike is a Dutch surname most notably associated with physicist Frits Zernike, a Nobel laureate known for developing phase-contrast microscopy and Zernike polynomials.
 E425324 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: Zernike | Statement: [Frits Zernike, familyName, Zernike]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Zernike
Context triple: [Frits Zernike, familyName, Zernike]
  • A. Kravchuk
    Kravchuk is a Ukrainian surname most notably associated with Leonid Kravchuk, the first President of independent Ukraine.
  • B. Hardy Z-function
    The Hardy Z-function is a real-valued function derived from the Riemann zeta function on the critical line, used extensively in the study of the distribution of its zeros and the Riemann Hypothesis.
  • C. Lommel
    Lommel is a municipality and city in the Belgian province of Limburg, known for its extensive forests, sand dunes, and glass industry.
  • D. Clebsch
    Clebsch is a German surname most notably associated with mathematician Alfred Clebsch, known for his contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory.
  • E. Weyl
    Weyl is a surname most famously associated with Hermann Weyl, a prominent 20th-century mathematician and theoretical physicist known for major contributions to group theory, quantum mechanics, and the foundations of 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: Zernike
Triple: [Frits Zernike, familyName, Zernike]
Generated description
Zernike is a Dutch surname most notably associated with physicist Frits Zernike, a Nobel laureate known for developing phase-contrast microscopy and Zernike polynomials.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Zernike
Target entity description: Zernike is a Dutch surname most notably associated with physicist Frits Zernike, a Nobel laureate known for developing phase-contrast microscopy and Zernike polynomials.
  • A. Kravchuk
    Kravchuk is a Ukrainian surname most notably associated with Leonid Kravchuk, the first President of independent Ukraine.
  • B. Hardy Z-function
    The Hardy Z-function is a real-valued function derived from the Riemann zeta function on the critical line, used extensively in the study of the distribution of its zeros and the Riemann Hypothesis.
  • C. Lommel
    Lommel is a municipality and city in the Belgian province of Limburg, known for its extensive forests, sand dunes, and glass industry.
  • D. Clebsch
    Clebsch is a German surname most notably associated with mathematician Alfred Clebsch, known for his contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory.
  • E. Weyl
    Weyl is a surname most famously associated with Hermann Weyl, a prominent 20th-century mathematician and theoretical physicist known for major contributions to group theory, quantum mechanics, and the foundations of 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_69b3453d91548190b4d4ef8fe52aa2ac completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b34e8a676c8190ac2cb59e62613dd9 completed March 12, 2026, 11:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5a872fd6881908a3fbe37e7c35c92 completed March 14, 2026, 6:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5a8e024a081909e7ecbe969793281 completed March 14, 2026, 6:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5acefd1f881908226ff68a741552b completed March 14, 2026, 6:46 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:05 p.m.