Triple

T12969525
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wheeler Army Airfield E321356 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Major Sheldon H. Wheeler
Major Sheldon H. Wheeler was a U.S. Army officer in whose honor Wheeler Army Airfield in Hawaii was named, recognizing his service and sacrifice in military aviation.
E1012924 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: Major Sheldon H. Wheeler | Statement: [Wheeler Army Airfield, namedAfter, Major Sheldon H. Wheeler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major Sheldon H. Wheeler
Context triple: [Wheeler Army Airfield, namedAfter, Major Sheldon H. Wheeler]
  • A. Colonel Norval E. Welch
    Colonel Norval E. Welch was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War best known for leading the 16th Michigan Infantry in key engagements such as the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • B. General William L. Shelton
    General William L. Shelton is a retired United States Air Force four-star general who led major space operations and modernization efforts, including serving as commander of Air Force Space Command.
  • C. Colonel Frank Fitts
    Colonel Frank Fitts is a strict, repressed former Marine officer and abusive father whose hidden vulnerabilities and internalized homophobia drive much of the tension in the film American Beauty.
  • D. Colonel Oran K. Henderson
    Colonel Oran K. Henderson was a U.S. Army officer best known for commanding units in Vietnam and later facing charges related to the cover-up of the My Lai Massacre.
  • E. Col. Herbert Y. Schandler
    Col. Herbert Y. Schandler was a U.S. Army officer and military historian known for his influential analyses of the Vietnam War and American foreign policy.
  • 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: Major Sheldon H. Wheeler
Triple: [Wheeler Army Airfield, namedAfter, Major Sheldon H. Wheeler]
Generated description
Major Sheldon H. Wheeler was a U.S. Army officer in whose honor Wheeler Army Airfield in Hawaii was named, recognizing his service and sacrifice in military aviation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major Sheldon H. Wheeler
Target entity description: Major Sheldon H. Wheeler was a U.S. Army officer in whose honor Wheeler Army Airfield in Hawaii was named, recognizing his service and sacrifice in military aviation.
  • A. Colonel Norval E. Welch
    Colonel Norval E. Welch was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War best known for leading the 16th Michigan Infantry in key engagements such as the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • B. General William L. Shelton
    General William L. Shelton is a retired United States Air Force four-star general who led major space operations and modernization efforts, including serving as commander of Air Force Space Command.
  • C. Colonel Frank Fitts
    Colonel Frank Fitts is a strict, repressed former Marine officer and abusive father whose hidden vulnerabilities and internalized homophobia drive much of the tension in the film American Beauty.
  • D. Colonel Oran K. Henderson
    Colonel Oran K. Henderson was a U.S. Army officer best known for commanding units in Vietnam and later facing charges related to the cover-up of the My Lai Massacre.
  • E. Col. Herbert Y. Schandler
    Col. Herbert Y. Schandler was a U.S. Army officer and military historian known for his influential analyses of the Vietnam War and American foreign policy.
  • 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_69d80763bd6c819094437da5b20b01d2 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d97e407e5081909424fc0c22483c28 completed April 10, 2026, 10:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6b8e6b31c8190b09276003f284f25 completed May 3, 2026, 2:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6b9db8164819086a3a27692d681d5 completed May 3, 2026, 2:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6bb2602848190b9588134c71d0ef4 completed May 3, 2026, 3:04 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 8:34 p.m.