Triple

T581369
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Carl Wilhelm Siemens E15065 entity
Predicate sibling P363 FINISHED
Object Werner von Siemens
Werner von Siemens was a pioneering 19th-century German inventor and industrialist who founded the electrical engineering company Siemens and made major contributions to telegraphy and electrical technology.
 E73486 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: Werner von Siemens | Statement: [Carl Wilhelm Siemens, sibling, Werner von Siemens]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Werner von Siemens
Context triple: [Carl Wilhelm Siemens, sibling, Werner von Siemens]
  • A. Carl Wilhelm Siemens
    Carl Wilhelm Siemens was a 19th-century German-born British engineer and industrialist renowned for his innovations in steelmaking and furnace technology.
  • B. Friedrich Braun
    Friedrich Braun was a German civil servant best known as the father of Eva Braun, the longtime companion and later wife of Adolf Hitler.
  • C. Wilhelm Stuckart
    Wilhelm Stuckart was a senior Nazi lawyer and state secretary in the Reich Ministry of the Interior who helped draft the Nuremberg Laws and contributed to the legal framework of the Holocaust.
  • D. Ernst Alexanderson
    Ernst Alexanderson was a Swedish-American electrical engineer and pioneer in radio and television technology, best known for developing early high-frequency alternators used in long-distance radio communication.
  • E. Charles Proteus Steinmetz
    Charles Proteus Steinmetz was a pioneering German-American electrical engineer and mathematician whose work on alternating current (AC) systems and electrical theory greatly advanced modern power engineering.
  • 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: Werner von Siemens
Triple: [Carl Wilhelm Siemens, sibling, Werner von Siemens]
Generated description
Werner von Siemens was a pioneering 19th-century German inventor and industrialist who founded the electrical engineering company Siemens and made major contributions to telegraphy and electrical technology.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Werner von Siemens
Target entity description: Werner von Siemens was a pioneering 19th-century German inventor and industrialist who founded the electrical engineering company Siemens and made major contributions to telegraphy and electrical technology.
  • A. Carl Wilhelm Siemens
    Carl Wilhelm Siemens was a 19th-century German-born British engineer and industrialist renowned for his innovations in steelmaking and furnace technology.
  • B. Friedrich Braun
    Friedrich Braun was a German civil servant best known as the father of Eva Braun, the longtime companion and later wife of Adolf Hitler.
  • C. Wilhelm Stuckart
    Wilhelm Stuckart was a senior Nazi lawyer and state secretary in the Reich Ministry of the Interior who helped draft the Nuremberg Laws and contributed to the legal framework of the Holocaust.
  • D. Ernst Alexanderson
    Ernst Alexanderson was a Swedish-American electrical engineer and pioneer in radio and television technology, best known for developing early high-frequency alternators used in long-distance radio communication.
  • E. Charles Proteus Steinmetz
    Charles Proteus Steinmetz was a pioneering German-American electrical engineer and mathematician whose work on alternating current (AC) systems and electrical theory greatly advanced modern power engineering.
  • 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_69a4935783b8819082b77726ec10cc42 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49b84899881909d5b2b4e67e22d9b completed March 1, 2026, 8:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a510380e048190b2f8f08abf07a594 completed March 2, 2026, 4:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a510af351c8190aa40f108595bc47a completed March 2, 2026, 4:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a511302c34819085eb7e180ccb1a61 completed March 2, 2026, 4:25 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.