Triple

T13270858
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Transcontinental Air Transport E316050 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Harold F. Pitcairn
Harold F. Pitcairn was an American aviation pioneer and industrialist known for his work in early commercial air transport and the development of autogyros.
E1031599 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: Harold F. Pitcairn | Statement: [Transcontinental Air Transport, foundedBy, Harold F. Pitcairn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harold F. Pitcairn
Context triple: [Transcontinental Air Transport, foundedBy, Harold F. Pitcairn]
  • A. Frank Pitcairn
    Frank Pitcairn was a pseudonym used by British journalist and communist writer Claud Cockburn, particularly for his political reporting and commentary.
  • B. John Pitcairn
    John Pitcairn was a British Marine officer best known for leading advance troops during the opening clashes of the American Revolutionary War.
  • C. Christopher Fairbank
    Christopher Fairbank is a British character actor known for his distinctive features and roles in film and television, including appearances in productions such as "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet" and various Shakespearean adaptations.
  • D. George Milne
    George Milne was a British Army general who commanded Allied forces on the Macedonian front during World War I.
  • E. Geoffrey Jellicoe
    Geoffrey Jellicoe was a prominent British landscape architect and garden designer known for his influential 20th-century public and private landscape projects.
  • 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: Harold F. Pitcairn
Triple: [Transcontinental Air Transport, foundedBy, Harold F. Pitcairn]
Generated description
Harold F. Pitcairn was an American aviation pioneer and industrialist known for his work in early commercial air transport and the development of autogyros.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harold F. Pitcairn
Target entity description: Harold F. Pitcairn was an American aviation pioneer and industrialist known for his work in early commercial air transport and the development of autogyros.
  • A. Frank Pitcairn
    Frank Pitcairn was a pseudonym used by British journalist and communist writer Claud Cockburn, particularly for his political reporting and commentary.
  • B. John Pitcairn
    John Pitcairn was a British Marine officer best known for leading advance troops during the opening clashes of the American Revolutionary War.
  • C. Christopher Fairbank
    Christopher Fairbank is a British character actor known for his distinctive features and roles in film and television, including appearances in productions such as "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet" and various Shakespearean adaptations.
  • D. George Milne
    George Milne was a British Army general who commanded Allied forces on the Macedonian front during World War I.
  • E. Geoffrey Jellicoe
    Geoffrey Jellicoe was a prominent British landscape architect and garden designer known for his influential 20th-century public and private landscape projects.
  • 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_69d806b1d9ac8190852c5571d5bd5f0f completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d99020f710819094c2618662bdc7fd completed April 11, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f70a4e98888190af5cb857b2437f09 completed May 3, 2026, 8:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f70aec0e4481909f6ea77136f2e970 completed May 3, 2026, 8:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f70bcb8b60819087afe37a3919d26b completed May 3, 2026, 8:48 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:26 p.m.