Triple

T7651253
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kerstin Ekman E173256 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Ekman
Ekman is a Swedish surname borne by several notable figures in Sweden’s cultural and public life.
E679663 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: Ekman | Statement: [Kerstin Ekman, familyName, Ekman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ekman
Context triple: [Kerstin Ekman, familyName, Ekman]
  • A. Ekman transport
    Ekman transport is an oceanographic process in which wind-driven surface waters move at an angle to the wind direction due to the Coriolis effect, causing net water transport perpendicular to the wind.
  • B. Ekman layer
    The Ekman layer is the thin region of fluid near a boundary (such as the ocean surface or seafloor) where the balance between friction and the Coriolis effect causes the flow to spiral with depth.
  • C. Bjerknes
    Bjerknes is a Norwegian surname most notably associated with the influential family of physicists and meteorologists who helped found modern weather forecasting and climate science.
  • D. Saffman
    Saffman is a surname most notably associated with Philip G. Saffman, a prominent British-American applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist.
  • E. Vedder
    Vedder is a surname most notably associated with Elihu Vedder, an American symbolist painter, book illustrator, and muralist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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: Ekman
Triple: [Kerstin Ekman, familyName, Ekman]
Generated description
Ekman is a Swedish surname borne by several notable figures in Sweden’s cultural and public life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ekman
Target entity description: Ekman is a Swedish surname borne by several notable figures in Sweden’s cultural and public life.
  • A. Ekman transport
    Ekman transport is an oceanographic process in which wind-driven surface waters move at an angle to the wind direction due to the Coriolis effect, causing net water transport perpendicular to the wind.
  • B. Ekman layer
    The Ekman layer is the thin region of fluid near a boundary (such as the ocean surface or seafloor) where the balance between friction and the Coriolis effect causes the flow to spiral with depth.
  • C. Bjerknes
    Bjerknes is a Norwegian surname most notably associated with the influential family of physicists and meteorologists who helped found modern weather forecasting and climate science.
  • D. Saffman
    Saffman is a surname most notably associated with Philip G. Saffman, a prominent British-American applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist.
  • E. Vedder
    Vedder is a surname most notably associated with Elihu Vedder, an American symbolist painter, book illustrator, and muralist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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_69c6995473348190a4f41d110d619a18 completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c70175e4b88190bc40c839a42180d4 completed March 27, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c89ae293148190a30ef03a4a594fe6 completed March 29, 2026, 3:22 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c89d2e42fc81908b1ddeb0375b47c8 completed March 29, 2026, 3:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c89d9255e08190b248f0c3fc858bc5 completed March 29, 2026, 3:33 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:58 p.m.