Triple

T13349887
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 1947 Kenneth Arnold sighting E318042 entity
Predicate hasMainParticipant P2434 FINISHED
Object Kenneth Arnold
Kenneth Arnold was an American aviator whose 1947 report of seeing unusual flying objects near Mount Rainier popularized the term "flying saucers" and is often considered the start of the modern UFO era.
E1034671 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: Kenneth Arnold | Statement: [1947 Kenneth Arnold sighting, hasMainParticipant, Kenneth Arnold]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenneth Arnold
Context triple: [1947 Kenneth Arnold sighting, hasMainParticipant, Kenneth Arnold]
  • A. Donald Keyhoe
    Donald Keyhoe was an American Marine Corps officer-turned-author best known as an early and influential proponent of the idea that UFOs were real and possibly extraterrestrial.
  • B. Hubertus Strughold
    Hubertus Strughold was a German-born aerospace medicine physician who became known as the “father of space medicine” in the United States after World War II, despite controversy over his involvement in Nazi-era human experiments.
  • C. Walter Tibbets
    Walter Tibbets is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Tibbets.
  • D. Andrew Tibbets
    Andrew Tibbets is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Tibbets.
  • E. Francis Gary Powers
    Francis Gary Powers was an American U-2 spy plane pilot whose shootdown and capture over the Soviet Union in 1960 became a major Cold War flashpoint.
  • 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: Kenneth Arnold
Triple: [1947 Kenneth Arnold sighting, hasMainParticipant, Kenneth Arnold]
Generated description
Kenneth Arnold was an American aviator whose 1947 report of seeing unusual flying objects near Mount Rainier popularized the term "flying saucers" and is often considered the start of the modern UFO era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenneth Arnold
Target entity description: Kenneth Arnold was an American aviator whose 1947 report of seeing unusual flying objects near Mount Rainier popularized the term "flying saucers" and is often considered the start of the modern UFO era.
  • A. Donald Keyhoe
    Donald Keyhoe was an American Marine Corps officer-turned-author best known as an early and influential proponent of the idea that UFOs were real and possibly extraterrestrial.
  • B. Hubertus Strughold
    Hubertus Strughold was a German-born aerospace medicine physician who became known as the “father of space medicine” in the United States after World War II, despite controversy over his involvement in Nazi-era human experiments.
  • C. Walter Tibbets
    Walter Tibbets is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Tibbets.
  • D. Andrew Tibbets
    Andrew Tibbets is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Tibbets.
  • E. Francis Gary Powers
    Francis Gary Powers was an American U-2 spy plane pilot whose shootdown and capture over the Soviet Union in 1960 became a major Cold War flashpoint.
  • 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_69d806b5a3c08190b42c267fb092f98a completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d99e8c2f1c819094f0970f35f18afa completed April 11, 2026, 1:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f71f47fd7c8190b8d98a181acd7710 completed May 3, 2026, 10:11 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7204b6f108190bca6a0140620e03e completed May 3, 2026, 10:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f720fbf0bc81908c68cf2844938e45 completed May 3, 2026, 10:18 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:31 p.m.