Triple

T5007572
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Troy E112533 entity
Predicate excavatedBy P7650 FINISHED
Object Manfred Korfmann
Manfred Korfmann was a German archaeologist best known for directing major late 20th-century excavations at the ancient site of Troy and reshaping scholarly views of its historical significance.
 E487067 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: Manfred Korfmann | Statement: [Troy, excavatedBy, Manfred Korfmann]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Manfred Korfmann
Context triple: [Troy, excavatedBy, Manfred Korfmann]
  • A. Reinhold Seeberg
    Reinhold Seeberg was a prominent German Lutheran theologian and church historian known for his influential work on dogmatics and for mentoring figures such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
  • B. Eckhard Pfeiffer
    Eckhard Pfeiffer is a German-American businessman best known for serving as CEO of Compaq Computer Corporation during its rapid expansion in the 1990s.
  • C. Günther Sabetzki
    Günther Sabetzki was a prominent German ice hockey executive and long-serving president of the International Ice Hockey Federation who played a key role in modernizing and internationalizing the sport.
  • D. Wulf-Dieter Burwitz
    Wulf-Dieter Burwitz was the son of Heinrich Himmler’s daughter Gudrun, known primarily for his discreet but long-standing involvement in neo-Nazi and far-right circles in postwar Germany.
  • E. Werner Naumann
    Werner Naumann was a German engineer and industrialist best known for his role in establishing the aircraft manufacturer Focke-Wulf, a key producer of military aircraft during World War II.
  • 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: Manfred Korfmann
Triple: [Troy, excavatedBy, Manfred Korfmann]
Generated description
Manfred Korfmann was a German archaeologist best known for directing major late 20th-century excavations at the ancient site of Troy and reshaping scholarly views of its historical significance.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Manfred Korfmann
Target entity description: Manfred Korfmann was a German archaeologist best known for directing major late 20th-century excavations at the ancient site of Troy and reshaping scholarly views of its historical significance.
  • A. Reinhold Seeberg
    Reinhold Seeberg was a prominent German Lutheran theologian and church historian known for his influential work on dogmatics and for mentoring figures such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
  • B. Eckhard Pfeiffer
    Eckhard Pfeiffer is a German-American businessman best known for serving as CEO of Compaq Computer Corporation during its rapid expansion in the 1990s.
  • C. Günther Sabetzki
    Günther Sabetzki was a prominent German ice hockey executive and long-serving president of the International Ice Hockey Federation who played a key role in modernizing and internationalizing the sport.
  • D. Wulf-Dieter Burwitz
    Wulf-Dieter Burwitz was the son of Heinrich Himmler’s daughter Gudrun, known primarily for his discreet but long-standing involvement in neo-Nazi and far-right circles in postwar Germany.
  • E. Werner Naumann
    Werner Naumann was a German engineer and industrialist best known for his role in establishing the aircraft manufacturer Focke-Wulf, a key producer of military aircraft during World War II.
  • 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_69bd4433d0b08190877e83959ef40d81 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd72e8a0308190a47d81943ad85bba completed March 20, 2026, 4:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be9266314881909dfb710c5b5c8f65 completed March 21, 2026, 12:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be93cfbe2881908cf97dd9ec5d28b5 completed March 21, 2026, 12:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be9448b5148190903775d394a095f0 completed March 21, 2026, 12:51 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:35 p.m.