Triple

T4645239
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wolff E101755 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Heinz von Foerster (born Heinz von Foerster-Wolff)
Heinz von Foerster (born Heinz von Foerster-Wolff) was an Austrian-American physicist and philosopher best known as a pioneer of cybernetics and second-order systems theory.
 E459312 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: Heinz von Foerster (born Heinz von Foerster-Wolff) | Statement: [Wolff, hasNotableBearer, Heinz von Foerster (born Heinz von Foerster-Wolff)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Heinz von Foerster (born Heinz von Foerster-Wolff)
Context triple: [Wolff, hasNotableBearer, Heinz von Foerster (born Heinz von Foerster-Wolff)]
  • A. Gregory Bateson
    Gregory Bateson was an English anthropologist, social scientist, and cyberneticist known for his work on systems theory, communication, and the ecology of mind.
  • B. Norbert Wiener
    Norbert Wiener was an American mathematician and philosopher best known as the founder of cybernetics and for his pioneering work in stochastic processes and harmonic analysis.
  • C. Jay Forrester
    Jay Forrester was an American engineer and systems scientist best known as a pioneer of digital computer memory and the founder of the field of system dynamics at MIT.
  • D. Mario Bunge
    Mario Bunge was an Argentine philosopher and physicist renowned for his rigorous defense of scientific realism and systematic, naturalistic philosophy across metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics.
  • E. Wilhelm Ackermann
    Wilhelm Ackermann was a German mathematician known for his work in mathematical logic and the development of the Ackermann function, one of the earliest-discovered examples of a computable but not primitive recursive function.
  • 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: Heinz von Foerster (born Heinz von Foerster-Wolff)
Triple: [Wolff, hasNotableBearer, Heinz von Foerster (born Heinz von Foerster-Wolff)]
Generated description
Heinz von Foerster (born Heinz von Foerster-Wolff) was an Austrian-American physicist and philosopher best known as a pioneer of cybernetics and second-order systems theory.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Heinz von Foerster (born Heinz von Foerster-Wolff)
Target entity description: Heinz von Foerster (born Heinz von Foerster-Wolff) was an Austrian-American physicist and philosopher best known as a pioneer of cybernetics and second-order systems theory.
  • A. Gregory Bateson
    Gregory Bateson was an English anthropologist, social scientist, and cyberneticist known for his work on systems theory, communication, and the ecology of mind.
  • B. Norbert Wiener
    Norbert Wiener was an American mathematician and philosopher best known as the founder of cybernetics and for his pioneering work in stochastic processes and harmonic analysis.
  • C. Jay Forrester
    Jay Forrester was an American engineer and systems scientist best known as a pioneer of digital computer memory and the founder of the field of system dynamics at MIT.
  • D. Mario Bunge
    Mario Bunge was an Argentine philosopher and physicist renowned for his rigorous defense of scientific realism and systematic, naturalistic philosophy across metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics.
  • E. Wilhelm Ackermann
    Wilhelm Ackermann was a German mathematician known for his work in mathematical logic and the development of the Ackermann function, one of the earliest-discovered examples of a computable but not primitive recursive function.
  • 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_69bd43d3bc7c81908f81fcf380476b0f completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd623815288190b21cf59a3786363d completed March 20, 2026, 3:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdfadc5dc081908d56a49895105efb completed March 21, 2026, 1:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdfc6751988190917ec53a8e2e27ec completed March 21, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be009e6c488190b18e1b2b4b34ecef completed March 21, 2026, 2:21 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:14 p.m.