Triple

T428596
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 1936 Summer Olympics E9663 entity
Predicate notableAthlete P10392 FINISHED
Object Toni Merkens
Toni Merkens was a German track cyclist best known for winning the gold medal in the sprint event at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
E61557 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: Toni Merkens | Statement: [1936 Summer Olympics, notableAthlete, Toni Merkens]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Toni Merkens
Context triple: [1936 Summer Olympics, notableAthlete, Toni Merkens]
  • A. Annik Penders
    Annik Penders is a Belgian communications professional best known as the wife of Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo.
  • B. Francine Houben
    Francine Houben is a renowned Dutch architect and creative director of the architecture firm Mecanoo, known for her human-centered, context-sensitive designs such as the Library of Birmingham and Delft University of Technology Library.
  • C. Iris Steensma
    Iris Steensma is the troubled teenage prostitute character from Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film "Taxi Driver," whose role became iconic through Jodie Foster’s acclaimed performance.
  • D. Joan Maetsuycker
    Joan Maetsuycker was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator who became one of the longest-serving and most influential leaders of the Dutch East India Company in Asia.
  • E. Marianne Schuurmans-Wijdeven
    Marianne Schuurmans-Wijdeven is a Dutch politician who serves as the mayor of the municipality of Haarlemmermeer in the Netherlands.
  • 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: Toni Merkens
Triple: [1936 Summer Olympics, notableAthlete, Toni Merkens]
Generated description
Toni Merkens was a German track cyclist best known for winning the gold medal in the sprint event at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Toni Merkens
Target entity description: Toni Merkens was a German track cyclist best known for winning the gold medal in the sprint event at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
  • A. Annik Penders
    Annik Penders is a Belgian communications professional best known as the wife of Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo.
  • B. Francine Houben
    Francine Houben is a renowned Dutch architect and creative director of the architecture firm Mecanoo, known for her human-centered, context-sensitive designs such as the Library of Birmingham and Delft University of Technology Library.
  • C. Iris Steensma
    Iris Steensma is the troubled teenage prostitute character from Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film "Taxi Driver," whose role became iconic through Jodie Foster’s acclaimed performance.
  • D. Joan Maetsuycker
    Joan Maetsuycker was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator who became one of the longest-serving and most influential leaders of the Dutch East India Company in Asia.
  • E. Marianne Schuurmans-Wijdeven
    Marianne Schuurmans-Wijdeven is a Dutch politician who serves as the mayor of the municipality of Haarlemmermeer in the Netherlands.
  • 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_69a2e801e1d48190b505d1dd336b52ac completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2eeecb64c81908c5c83ef7c0181e6 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a47d2668348190a654c9e0c7bf10a1 completed March 1, 2026, 5:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a47dd158b481908d8263371e49d10d completed March 1, 2026, 5:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a47e23ac588190a876d45de6821382 completed March 1, 2026, 5:57 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:11 p.m.