Triple

T13270919
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jack Northrop E316051 entity
Predicate designed P184 FINISHED
Object Northrop Alpha
Northrop Alpha was an early all-metal, single-engine monoplane airliner and mailplane of the early 1930s that helped pioneer modern stressed-skin aircraft design.
E1031605 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: Northrop Alpha | Statement: [Jack Northrop, designed, Northrop Alpha]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Northrop Alpha
Context triple: [Jack Northrop, designed, Northrop Alpha]
  • A. Northrop M2-F2
    The Northrop M2-F2 was an experimental lifting-body research aircraft developed in the 1960s to study wingless reentry vehicle aerodynamics and landing characteristics for future spacecraft.
  • B. Convair XF-92
    The Convair XF-92 was an experimental American delta-wing jet interceptor prototype developed in the late 1940s that served as a pioneering testbed for high-speed delta-wing aircraft design.
  • C. Northrop A-17
    The Northrop A-17 was a 1930s American single-engine, low-wing attack bomber used primarily by the U.S. Army Air Corps and several foreign air forces before and during the early years of World War II.
  • D. Northrop X-21
    The Northrop X-21 was an experimental U.S. jet aircraft of the 1960s designed to test laminar-flow control technology for improved aerodynamic efficiency.
  • E. Northrop X-4 Bantam
    The Northrop X-4 Bantam was a late-1940s American experimental jet aircraft designed to test the stability and handling of a tailless, swept-wing configuration at transonic speeds.
  • 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: Northrop Alpha
Triple: [Jack Northrop, designed, Northrop Alpha]
Generated description
Northrop Alpha was an early all-metal, single-engine monoplane airliner and mailplane of the early 1930s that helped pioneer modern stressed-skin aircraft design.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Northrop Alpha
Target entity description: Northrop Alpha was an early all-metal, single-engine monoplane airliner and mailplane of the early 1930s that helped pioneer modern stressed-skin aircraft design.
  • A. Northrop M2-F2
    The Northrop M2-F2 was an experimental lifting-body research aircraft developed in the 1960s to study wingless reentry vehicle aerodynamics and landing characteristics for future spacecraft.
  • B. Convair XF-92
    The Convair XF-92 was an experimental American delta-wing jet interceptor prototype developed in the late 1940s that served as a pioneering testbed for high-speed delta-wing aircraft design.
  • C. Northrop A-17
    The Northrop A-17 was a 1930s American single-engine, low-wing attack bomber used primarily by the U.S. Army Air Corps and several foreign air forces before and during the early years of World War II.
  • D. Northrop X-21
    The Northrop X-21 was an experimental U.S. jet aircraft of the 1960s designed to test laminar-flow control technology for improved aerodynamic efficiency.
  • E. Northrop X-4 Bantam
    The Northrop X-4 Bantam was a late-1940s American experimental jet aircraft designed to test the stability and handling of a tailless, swept-wing configuration at transonic speeds.
  • 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.