Triple

T5258151
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Boston art community E118752 entity
Predicate associatedWithArtist P5936 FINISHED
Object Karl Zerbe
Karl Zerbe was a German-born American painter and influential teacher known for his role in the Boston Expressionist movement and his long tenure at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
E525133 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: Karl Zerbe | Statement: [Boston art community, associatedWithArtist, Karl Zerbe]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Karl Zerbe
Context triple: [Boston art community, associatedWithArtist, Karl Zerbe]
  • A. Joseph Weisbecker
    Joseph Weisbecker was an American engineer and computer designer best known for pioneering early hobbyist microcomputers and educational computing systems in the 1970s.
  • B. Karl Eberhardt
    Karl Eberhardt is an individual known primarily for being a defendant in the NMT Case X war crimes trial held after World War II.
  • C. Karl Herzfeld
    Karl Herzfeld was an Austrian-American physicist known for his contributions to statistical mechanics and acoustics, and for mentoring influential physicists such as John Archibald Wheeler.
  • D. Herman Glogauer
    Herman Glogauer is a bombastic Hollywood studio head character in the play "Once in a Lifetime," embodying the excess and absurdity of early 20th-century film industry moguls.
  • E. Hans Wiegel
    Hans Wiegel is a prominent Dutch liberal politician who served as leader of the VVD and as Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands in the late 20th 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: Karl Zerbe
Triple: [Boston art community, associatedWithArtist, Karl Zerbe]
Generated description
Karl Zerbe was a German-born American painter and influential teacher known for his role in the Boston Expressionist movement and his long tenure at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Karl Zerbe
Target entity description: Karl Zerbe was a German-born American painter and influential teacher known for his role in the Boston Expressionist movement and his long tenure at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
  • A. Joseph Weisbecker
    Joseph Weisbecker was an American engineer and computer designer best known for pioneering early hobbyist microcomputers and educational computing systems in the 1970s.
  • B. Karl Eberhardt
    Karl Eberhardt is an individual known primarily for being a defendant in the NMT Case X war crimes trial held after World War II.
  • C. Karl Herzfeld
    Karl Herzfeld was an Austrian-American physicist known for his contributions to statistical mechanics and acoustics, and for mentoring influential physicists such as John Archibald Wheeler.
  • D. Herman Glogauer
    Herman Glogauer is a bombastic Hollywood studio head character in the play "Once in a Lifetime," embodying the excess and absurdity of early 20th-century film industry moguls.
  • E. Hans Wiegel
    Hans Wiegel is a prominent Dutch liberal politician who served as leader of the VVD and as Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands in the late 20th 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_69bd446978108190bb5f9c5c23d93f88 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7ba791c08190a18176feae8d1475 completed March 20, 2026, 4:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf857b83f08190b2d575a052198ff1 completed March 22, 2026, 6 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf864a97fc8190874fbe65add98f72 completed March 22, 2026, 6:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf8696d57881908801fda7de349561 completed March 22, 2026, 6:05 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:50 p.m.