Triple

T12833416
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Whiteman Air Force Base E306843 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object 2nd Lieutenant George A. Whiteman
2nd Lieutenant George A. Whiteman was a U.S. Army Air Forces pilot and one of the first American airmen killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II.
E1004778 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: 2nd Lieutenant George A. Whiteman | Statement: [Whiteman Air Force Base, namedAfter, 2nd Lieutenant George A. Whiteman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 2nd Lieutenant George A. Whiteman
Context triple: [Whiteman Air Force Base, namedAfter, 2nd Lieutenant George A. Whiteman]
  • A. First Lieutenant William R. Parnell
    First Lieutenant William R. Parnell was a U.S. Army officer known for his leadership during the Nez Perce War, particularly for commanding troops in key engagements such as the Battle of White Bird Canyon.
  • B. Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton
    Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton was a real-life U.S. Army officer of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was prominently depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
  • C. 1st Lieutenant Edward J. Peterson
    1st Lieutenant Edward J. Peterson was a U.S. Air Force officer whose legacy is honored through the naming of Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado.
  • D. 2nd Lt. Merle Wye
    2nd Lt. Merle Wye is a fictional junior Army officer who serves as the central character in the military comedy film "The Horizontal Lieutenant."
  • E. Corporal Frank S. Scott
    Corporal Frank S. Scott was a U.S. Army aviation mechanic recognized as the first enlisted airman to die in an aircraft accident, for whom Scott Air Force Base is named.
  • 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: 2nd Lieutenant George A. Whiteman
Triple: [Whiteman Air Force Base, namedAfter, 2nd Lieutenant George A. Whiteman]
Generated description
2nd Lieutenant George A. Whiteman was a U.S. Army Air Forces pilot and one of the first American airmen killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 2nd Lieutenant George A. Whiteman
Target entity description: 2nd Lieutenant George A. Whiteman was a U.S. Army Air Forces pilot and one of the first American airmen killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II.
  • A. First Lieutenant William R. Parnell
    First Lieutenant William R. Parnell was a U.S. Army officer known for his leadership during the Nez Perce War, particularly for commanding troops in key engagements such as the Battle of White Bird Canyon.
  • B. Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton
    Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton was a real-life U.S. Army officer of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was prominently depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
  • C. 1st Lieutenant Edward J. Peterson
    1st Lieutenant Edward J. Peterson was a U.S. Air Force officer whose legacy is honored through the naming of Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado.
  • D. 2nd Lt. Merle Wye
    2nd Lt. Merle Wye is a fictional junior Army officer who serves as the central character in the military comedy film "The Horizontal Lieutenant."
  • E. Corporal Frank S. Scott
    Corporal Frank S. Scott was a U.S. Army aviation mechanic recognized as the first enlisted airman to die in an aircraft accident, for whom Scott Air Force Base is named.
  • 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_69d7bdf52b94819096d6f0ba4ab50a98 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96fb1c7248190bb6e644e041d192e completed April 10, 2026, 9:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f68ed8d20081908e0fb5262b354cab completed May 2, 2026, 11:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6908cb8ec8190855b217c13a51f16 completed May 3, 2026, 12:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6917688508190ae5a64494eaadce7 completed May 3, 2026, 12:06 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:34 p.m.