Triple

T6822485
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Heinrich Rohrer E156931 entity
Predicate sharesNobelPrizeWith P1859 FINISHED
Object Ernst Ruska
Ernst Ruska was a German physicist and engineer best known for inventing the electron microscope, a breakthrough that revolutionized imaging at the nanoscale.
E621846 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: Ernst Ruska | Statement: [Heinrich Rohrer, sharesNobelPrizeWith, Ernst Ruska]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernst Ruska
Context triple: [Heinrich Rohrer, sharesNobelPrizeWith, Ernst Ruska]
  • A. Heinrich Rohrer
    Heinrich Rohrer was a Swiss physicist and Nobel laureate best known for co-inventing the scanning tunneling microscope, a breakthrough in nanotechnology and surface science.
  • B. Ernst Abbe
    Ernst Abbe was a German physicist, optical scientist, and entrepreneur renowned for his fundamental contributions to optical theory and for co-founding the Carl Zeiss optics company.
  • C. Franz Pökler
    Franz Pökler is a German rocket engineer in Thomas Pynchon’s novel "Gravity’s Rainbow," whose work on the V-2 program is intertwined with themes of coercion, guilt, and the dehumanizing machinery of war.
  • D. Hans Queisser
    Hans Queisser was a German physicist renowned for his pioneering work in semiconductor physics and solar cell efficiency, most notably through the formulation of the Shockley–Queisser limit.
  • E. Frits Zernike
    Frits Zernike was a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate best known for inventing phase-contrast microscopy, which revolutionized the observation of transparent specimens.
  • 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: Ernst Ruska
Triple: [Heinrich Rohrer, sharesNobelPrizeWith, Ernst Ruska]
Generated description
Ernst Ruska was a German physicist and engineer best known for inventing the electron microscope, a breakthrough that revolutionized imaging at the nanoscale.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernst Ruska
Target entity description: Ernst Ruska was a German physicist and engineer best known for inventing the electron microscope, a breakthrough that revolutionized imaging at the nanoscale.
  • A. Heinrich Rohrer
    Heinrich Rohrer was a Swiss physicist and Nobel laureate best known for co-inventing the scanning tunneling microscope, a breakthrough in nanotechnology and surface science.
  • B. Ernst Abbe
    Ernst Abbe was a German physicist, optical scientist, and entrepreneur renowned for his fundamental contributions to optical theory and for co-founding the Carl Zeiss optics company.
  • C. Franz Pökler
    Franz Pökler is a German rocket engineer in Thomas Pynchon’s novel "Gravity’s Rainbow," whose work on the V-2 program is intertwined with themes of coercion, guilt, and the dehumanizing machinery of war.
  • D. Hans Queisser
    Hans Queisser was a German physicist renowned for his pioneering work in semiconductor physics and solar cell efficiency, most notably through the formulation of the Shockley–Queisser limit.
  • E. Frits Zernike
    Frits Zernike was a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate best known for inventing phase-contrast microscopy, which revolutionized the observation of transparent specimens.
  • 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_69c688298a288190af3f285d57f76bbe completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d57f69cc8190bbd08a8d447e616f completed March 27, 2026, 7:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c723eb23c8819085d2e8a8ce9c3c90 completed March 28, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c724b7b31081909c2bab4a3ba6e9f9 completed March 28, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c72536c4808190b9012e282cf02da4 completed March 28, 2026, 12:47 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:17 p.m.