Triple

T8809664
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject United Brethren in Christ E209624 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Philip William Otterbein
Philip William Otterbein was an 18th-century German-American clergyman and revivalist who co-founded the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, a precursor to several modern Methodist and evangelical denominations.
E759867 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: Philip William Otterbein | Statement: [United Brethren in Christ, foundedBy, Philip William Otterbein]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philip William Otterbein
Context triple: [United Brethren in Christ, foundedBy, Philip William Otterbein]
  • A. Paul Luther
    Paul Luther was a 16th-century German physician and the son of the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther.
  • B. Henry Muhlenberg
    Henry Muhlenberg was a prominent 18th-century Lutheran minister and missionary often regarded as the patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America.
  • C. Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf
    Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf was an 18th-century German religious reformer and nobleman best known as the leader of the Moravian Church and a key figure in the development of Protestant Pietism.
  • D. Samuel Simon Schmucker
    Samuel Simon Schmucker was a 19th-century American Lutheran theologian and educator known for his influential role in shaping Lutheranism in the United States.
  • E. Gotthilf Henry Ernest Muhlenberg
    Gotthilf Henry Ernest Muhlenberg was an American Lutheran clergyman and pioneering botanist best known for his work on North American grasses and for having the plant genus Muhlenbergia named in his honor.
  • 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: Philip William Otterbein
Triple: [United Brethren in Christ, foundedBy, Philip William Otterbein]
Generated description
Philip William Otterbein was an 18th-century German-American clergyman and revivalist who co-founded the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, a precursor to several modern Methodist and evangelical denominations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philip William Otterbein
Target entity description: Philip William Otterbein was an 18th-century German-American clergyman and revivalist who co-founded the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, a precursor to several modern Methodist and evangelical denominations.
  • A. Paul Luther
    Paul Luther was a 16th-century German physician and the son of the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther.
  • B. Henry Muhlenberg
    Henry Muhlenberg was a prominent 18th-century Lutheran minister and missionary often regarded as the patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America.
  • C. Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf
    Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf was an 18th-century German religious reformer and nobleman best known as the leader of the Moravian Church and a key figure in the development of Protestant Pietism.
  • D. Samuel Simon Schmucker
    Samuel Simon Schmucker was a 19th-century American Lutheran theologian and educator known for his influential role in shaping Lutheranism in the United States.
  • E. Gotthilf Henry Ernest Muhlenberg
    Gotthilf Henry Ernest Muhlenberg was an American Lutheran clergyman and pioneering botanist best known for his work on North American grasses and for having the plant genus Muhlenbergia named in his honor.
  • 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_69ca8363f3308190a47e3f1ebd51f613 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc5fd69df4819091e9a7dad87265a4 completed March 31, 2026, 11:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf6faa5dbc819083ecfbbb261cbc44 completed April 3, 2026, 7:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf713a184c8190b1fa788fd3ba8304 completed April 3, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf71d3517c819088c930ed468c4e8e completed April 3, 2026, 7:52 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:45 p.m.