Triple

T9945191
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Patrick Volkerding E195186 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Volkerding
Volkerding is the surname of Patrick Volkerding, the creator and long-time maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution.
 E830384 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: Volkerding | Statement: [Patrick Volkerding, familyName, Volkerding]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Volkerding
Context triple: [Patrick Volkerding, familyName, Volkerding]
  • A. Todenfeld
    Todenfeld is a village and district of the town of Rheinbach in the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
  • B. Niendorf
    Niendorf is a residential district in the northwestern part of Hamburg, Germany, known for its suburban character and proximity to Hamburg Airport.
  • C. Volkerak
    Volkerak is a lake and former estuarine channel in the southwestern Netherlands that forms part of the country’s major Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt waterway system.
  • D. Dinklage
    Dinklage is a small town in Lower Saxony, Germany, known as the birthplace of Cardinal Clemens August Graf von Galen.
  • E. Goppenstein
    Goppenstein is a small Swiss village in the canton of Valais, best known as a key railway junction and car shuttle station on the Lötschberg route through the Alps.
  • 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: Volkerding
Triple: [Patrick Volkerding, familyName, Volkerding]
Generated description
Volkerding is the surname of Patrick Volkerding, the creator and long-time maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Volkerding
Target entity description: Volkerding is the surname of Patrick Volkerding, the creator and long-time maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution.
  • A. Todenfeld
    Todenfeld is a village and district of the town of Rheinbach in the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
  • B. Niendorf
    Niendorf is a residential district in the northwestern part of Hamburg, Germany, known for its suburban character and proximity to Hamburg Airport.
  • C. Volkerak
    Volkerak is a lake and former estuarine channel in the southwestern Netherlands that forms part of the country’s major Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt waterway system.
  • D. Dinklage
    Dinklage is a small town in Lower Saxony, Germany, known as the birthplace of Cardinal Clemens August Graf von Galen.
  • E. Goppenstein
    Goppenstein is a small Swiss village in the canton of Valais, best known as a key railway junction and car shuttle station on the Lötschberg route through the Alps.
  • 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_69ca82e96a108190932bd1fc4acd73a0 completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb61561848190aba7250f3b3c4ed5 completed April 2, 2026, 12:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d2291a22f88190acf055a7410c1808 completed April 5, 2026, 9:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d229f496c48190bf3bca109b3bc62b completed April 5, 2026, 9:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d22a8494f481909bd6b4936b32679e completed April 5, 2026, 9:25 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:45 p.m.