Triple

T1293231
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Arland D. Williams Jr. Memorial Bridge E27593 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Arland D. Williams Jr.
Arland D. Williams Jr. was an American passenger who became known for his heroic self-sacrifice during the 1982 Air Florida Flight 90 crash in Washington, D.C., repeatedly passing rescue lines to others before drowning.
E251117 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: Arland D. Williams Jr. | Statement: [Arland D. Williams Jr. Memorial Bridge, namedAfter, Arland D. Williams Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Arland D. Williams Jr.
Context triple: [Arland D. Williams Jr. Memorial Bridge, namedAfter, Arland D. Williams Jr.]
  • A. Ronald J. Williams
    Ronald J. Williams is a computer scientist known for his influential contributions to neural networks and machine learning, particularly in the development of backpropagation and reinforcement learning algorithms.
  • B. William R. Wilkerson
    William R. Wilkerson was an American entrepreneur and publisher best known for founding The Hollywood Reporter and initiating the development of the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
  • C. Noland B. Harmon
    Noland B. Harmon was an American Methodist bishop known for co-authoring the 1963 “A Call for Unity” statement that criticized civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama.
  • D. Arthur C. Walker Jr.
    Arthur C. Walker Jr. was an American physicist and solar scientist known for his pioneering work in X-ray and ultraviolet imaging of the sun and for serving on the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • E. Philip M. Landrum
    Philip M. Landrum was an American congressman from Georgia best known as a co-author of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (the Landrum–Griffin Act), which regulated labor unions and their internal affairs.
  • 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: Arland D. Williams Jr.
Triple: [Arland D. Williams Jr. Memorial Bridge, namedAfter, Arland D. Williams Jr.]
Generated description
Arland D. Williams Jr. was an American passenger who became known for his heroic self-sacrifice during the 1982 Air Florida Flight 90 crash in Washington, D.C., repeatedly passing rescue lines to others before drowning.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Arland D. Williams Jr.
Target entity description: Arland D. Williams Jr. was an American passenger who became known for his heroic self-sacrifice during the 1982 Air Florida Flight 90 crash in Washington, D.C., repeatedly passing rescue lines to others before drowning.
  • A. Ronald J. Williams
    Ronald J. Williams is a computer scientist known for his influential contributions to neural networks and machine learning, particularly in the development of backpropagation and reinforcement learning algorithms.
  • B. William R. Wilkerson
    William R. Wilkerson was an American entrepreneur and publisher best known for founding The Hollywood Reporter and initiating the development of the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
  • C. Noland B. Harmon
    Noland B. Harmon was an American Methodist bishop known for co-authoring the 1963 “A Call for Unity” statement that criticized civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama.
  • D. Arthur C. Walker Jr.
    Arthur C. Walker Jr. was an American physicist and solar scientist known for his pioneering work in X-ray and ultraviolet imaging of the sun and for serving on the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • E. Philip M. Landrum
    Philip M. Landrum was an American congressman from Georgia best known as a co-author of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (the Landrum–Griffin Act), which regulated labor unions and their internal affairs.
  • 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_69a496d4ec448190ad653b2590c46711 completed March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c0f09d5c81909e6dc036fe9c5b4a completed March 1, 2026, 10:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae719488288190b3f954c037af3d3f completed March 9, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae72dad0188190b279932087109a1c completed March 9, 2026, 7:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae733c44008190ac1429da66cf77aa completed March 9, 2026, 7:14 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.