Triple

T8253105
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Spies E193003 entity
Predicate hasVariantSpelling P457 FINISHED
Object Spiess
Spiess is a surname of German origin, often borne by individuals in German-speaking countries and their descendants.
 E722021 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: Spiess | Statement: [Spies, hasVariantSpelling, Spiess]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Spiess
Context triple: [Spies, hasVariantSpelling, Spiess]
  • A. Paepcke
    Paepcke is a surname most notably associated with Walter Paepcke, the American industrialist and cultural philanthropist who founded the Aspen Institute.
  • B. Sperrle
    Sperrle is a German surname most notably borne by Hugo Sperrle, a senior Luftwaffe field marshal during World War II.
  • C. Oberhauser
    Oberhauser is a German-language surname borne by various notable individuals across fields such as sports, the arts, and public life.
  • D. Streicher
    Streicher is a German surname most infamously associated with Julius Streicher, a prominent Nazi propagandist and publisher of the antisemitic newspaper Der Stürmer.
  • E. Espee
    Espee is a common nickname for the historic Southern Pacific Railroad, a major American railroad that operated in the western United States.
  • 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: Spiess
Triple: [Spies, hasVariantSpelling, Spiess]
Generated description
Spiess is a surname of German origin, often borne by individuals in German-speaking countries and their descendants.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Spiess
Target entity description: Spiess is a surname of German origin, often borne by individuals in German-speaking countries and their descendants.
  • A. Paepcke
    Paepcke is a surname most notably associated with Walter Paepcke, the American industrialist and cultural philanthropist who founded the Aspen Institute.
  • B. Sperrle
    Sperrle is a German surname most notably borne by Hugo Sperrle, a senior Luftwaffe field marshal during World War II.
  • C. Oberhauser
    Oberhauser is a German-language surname borne by various notable individuals across fields such as sports, the arts, and public life.
  • D. Streicher
    Streicher is a German surname most infamously associated with Julius Streicher, a prominent Nazi propagandist and publisher of the antisemitic newspaper Der Stürmer.
  • E. Espee
    Espee is a common nickname for the historic Southern Pacific Railroad, a major American railroad that operated in the western United States.
  • 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_69ca82dfad9c8190b8cd18fb89f50f40 completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb78cbc7cc81909931440e95d6e691 completed March 31, 2026, 7:33 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cd354a412c8190963605d177d94a17 completed April 1, 2026, 3:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cd4e5e9a2c819099a65053a12c8fde completed April 1, 2026, 4:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cd507ce2a881909da6871a9f6df119 completed April 1, 2026, 5:06 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:48 p.m.