Triple

T5126745
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Johann Froben E115602 entity
Predicate successor P78 FINISHED
Object Nikolaus Episcopius
Nikolaus Episcopius was a 16th-century Basel printer and publisher who continued the influential humanist printing tradition established by Johann Froben.
E498174 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: Nikolaus Episcopius | Statement: [Johann Froben, successor, Nikolaus Episcopius]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nikolaus Episcopius
Context triple: [Johann Froben, successor, Nikolaus Episcopius]
  • A. Johann Bugenhagen
    Johann Bugenhagen was a leading Lutheran reformer and pastor, known as "Doctor Pomeranus," who organized church reforms and liturgies across several North German and Scandinavian territories during the Reformation.
  • B. Friedrich Nicolovius
    Friedrich Nicolovius was a German publisher active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for issuing significant philosophical and theological works.
  • C. Johann Georg Eccarius
    Johann Georg Eccarius was a German tailor, socialist activist, and close associate of Karl Marx who served as a leading figure and general secretary of the International Workingmen's Association.
  • D. Johannes Crellius
    Johannes Crellius was a prominent 17th-century Socinian theologian and writer associated with the Polish Brethren, known for his influential works on non-Trinitarian Christian doctrine.
  • E. Simon Episcopius
    Simon Episcopius was a leading Dutch Remonstrant theologian and successor to Jacobus Arminius, known for systematizing and defending Arminian theology against strict Calvinism in the early 17th century.
  • 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: Nikolaus Episcopius
Triple: [Johann Froben, successor, Nikolaus Episcopius]
Generated description
Nikolaus Episcopius was a 16th-century Basel printer and publisher who continued the influential humanist printing tradition established by Johann Froben.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nikolaus Episcopius
Target entity description: Nikolaus Episcopius was a 16th-century Basel printer and publisher who continued the influential humanist printing tradition established by Johann Froben.
  • A. Johann Bugenhagen
    Johann Bugenhagen was a leading Lutheran reformer and pastor, known as "Doctor Pomeranus," who organized church reforms and liturgies across several North German and Scandinavian territories during the Reformation.
  • B. Friedrich Nicolovius
    Friedrich Nicolovius was a German publisher active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for issuing significant philosophical and theological works.
  • C. Johann Georg Eccarius
    Johann Georg Eccarius was a German tailor, socialist activist, and close associate of Karl Marx who served as a leading figure and general secretary of the International Workingmen's Association.
  • D. Johannes Crellius
    Johannes Crellius was a prominent 17th-century Socinian theologian and writer associated with the Polish Brethren, known for his influential works on non-Trinitarian Christian doctrine.
  • E. Simon Episcopius
    Simon Episcopius was a leading Dutch Remonstrant theologian and successor to Jacobus Arminius, known for systematizing and defending Arminian theology against strict Calvinism in the early 17th century.
  • 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_69bd444426bc819099ccd23f141e22aa completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd78228b2081908c70efd3db71f8d4 completed March 20, 2026, 4:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69becfd90a848190a1c78063a437cf3c completed March 21, 2026, 5:05 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bed21a34f881908c3ef34c0971e7b5 completed March 21, 2026, 5:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bed2819f408190adc04c438706bfff completed March 21, 2026, 5:16 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:42 p.m.