Triple

T145951
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject DARPA Grand Challenge E3329 entity
Predicate notablePerson P304 FINISHED
Object William L Whittaker
William L. "Red" Whittaker is a pioneering roboticist and Carnegie Mellon University professor known for his groundbreaking work in field robotics and autonomous vehicles.
E27737 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: William L Whittaker | Statement: [DARPA Grand Challenge, notablePerson, William L Whittaker]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William L Whittaker
Context triple: [DARPA Grand Challenge, notablePerson, William L Whittaker]
  • A. Arthur Geoffrey Walker
    Arthur Geoffrey Walker was a British mathematician and physicist best known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology, particularly the development of the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric.
  • B. G. Evelyn Hutchinson
    G. Evelyn Hutchinson was a pioneering 20th-century ecologist often called the "father of modern ecology" for his influential work on ecological niches, limnology, and the theoretical foundations of population and community ecology.
  • C. Henry Darwin Rogers
    Henry Darwin Rogers was a 19th-century American geologist best known for directing the first geological survey of Pennsylvania and advancing the study of Appalachian geology.
  • D. Christopher Longuet-Higgins
    Christopher Longuet-Higgins was a British theoretical chemist and cognitive scientist known for his influential work in artificial intelligence and the study of human perception and cognition.
  • E. Robert Brown
    Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist best known for his pioneering observations of the random motion of particles suspended in fluid, which led to the concept of Brownian motion.
  • 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: William L Whittaker
Triple: [DARPA Grand Challenge, notablePerson, William L Whittaker]
Generated description
William L. "Red" Whittaker is a pioneering roboticist and Carnegie Mellon University professor known for his groundbreaking work in field robotics and autonomous vehicles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William L Whittaker
Target entity description: William L. "Red" Whittaker is a pioneering roboticist and Carnegie Mellon University professor known for his groundbreaking work in field robotics and autonomous vehicles.
  • A. Arthur Geoffrey Walker
    Arthur Geoffrey Walker was a British mathematician and physicist best known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology, particularly the development of the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric.
  • B. G. Evelyn Hutchinson
    G. Evelyn Hutchinson was a pioneering 20th-century ecologist often called the "father of modern ecology" for his influential work on ecological niches, limnology, and the theoretical foundations of population and community ecology.
  • C. Henry Darwin Rogers
    Henry Darwin Rogers was a 19th-century American geologist best known for directing the first geological survey of Pennsylvania and advancing the study of Appalachian geology.
  • D. Christopher Longuet-Higgins
    Christopher Longuet-Higgins was a British theoretical chemist and cognitive scientist known for his influential work in artificial intelligence and the study of human perception and cognition.
  • E. Robert Brown
    Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist best known for his pioneering observations of the random motion of particles suspended in fluid, which led to the concept of Brownian motion.
  • 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_69a252868de4819080e21c9938bfe8b6 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:27 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a257ea7eac8190884a53453a9e0dd6 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:50 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a34418bb848190ac26adef7f990f93 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 7:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a34543689c8190ac8e25ffcf3b4fb3 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 7:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a345748c808190b0f8f2a00c3705e2 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:31 a.m.