Triple

T13350074
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 2004 USS Nimitz incident E318046 entity
Predicate hasAlternativeName P39 FINISHED
Object Nimitz UFO incident
The Nimitz UFO incident refers to a 2004 encounter in which U.S. Navy pilots and radar operators from the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group reported tracking and visually observing an unidentified flying object, often described as a "Tic Tac"-shaped craft, exhibiting extraordinary flight characteristics.
E1034681 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: Nimitz UFO incident | Statement: [2004 USS Nimitz incident, hasAlternativeName, Nimitz UFO incident]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nimitz UFO incident
Context triple: [2004 USS Nimitz incident, hasAlternativeName, Nimitz UFO incident]
  • A. 1997 Phoenix Lights
    The 1997 Phoenix Lights were a widely witnessed mass UFO sighting over Arizona, famous for its large V-shaped formation of lights and enduring mystery.
  • B. The Bedford Incident
    The Bedford Incident is a 1965 Cold War naval thriller film about a tense confrontation between a U.S. destroyer and a Soviet submarine, noted for its escalating psychological drama and bleak ending.
  • C. The Kettering Incident
    The Kettering Incident is an Australian mystery-thriller television series centered on a doctor who returns to her Tasmanian hometown and becomes entangled in a decades-old disappearance and strange supernatural events.
  • D. 1947 Roswell UFO incident
    The 1947 Roswell UFO incident is a famous event in New Mexico involving the alleged crash of an unidentified flying object, which sparked decades of conspiracy theories and popular interest in extraterrestrial life.
  • E. Altmark Incident
    The Altmark Incident was a 1940 World War II naval confrontation in Norwegian waters, where British forces boarded the German tanker Altmark to free imprisoned Allied sailors, heightening tensions during the early "Phoney War" period.
  • 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: Nimitz UFO incident
Triple: [2004 USS Nimitz incident, hasAlternativeName, Nimitz UFO incident]
Generated description
The Nimitz UFO incident refers to a 2004 encounter in which U.S. Navy pilots and radar operators from the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group reported tracking and visually observing an unidentified flying object, often described as a "Tic Tac"-shaped craft, exhibiting extraordinary flight characteristics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nimitz UFO incident
Target entity description: The Nimitz UFO incident refers to a 2004 encounter in which U.S. Navy pilots and radar operators from the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group reported tracking and visually observing an unidentified flying object, often described as a "Tic Tac"-shaped craft, exhibiting extraordinary flight characteristics.
  • A. 1997 Phoenix Lights
    The 1997 Phoenix Lights were a widely witnessed mass UFO sighting over Arizona, famous for its large V-shaped formation of lights and enduring mystery.
  • B. The Bedford Incident
    The Bedford Incident is a 1965 Cold War naval thriller film about a tense confrontation between a U.S. destroyer and a Soviet submarine, noted for its escalating psychological drama and bleak ending.
  • C. The Kettering Incident
    The Kettering Incident is an Australian mystery-thriller television series centered on a doctor who returns to her Tasmanian hometown and becomes entangled in a decades-old disappearance and strange supernatural events.
  • D. 1947 Roswell UFO incident
    The 1947 Roswell UFO incident is a famous event in New Mexico involving the alleged crash of an unidentified flying object, which sparked decades of conspiracy theories and popular interest in extraterrestrial life.
  • E. Altmark Incident
    The Altmark Incident was a 1940 World War II naval confrontation in Norwegian waters, where British forces boarded the German tanker Altmark to free imprisoned Allied sailors, heightening tensions during the early "Phoney War" period.
  • 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.