Triple

T14980520
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wheelus Air Base E373561 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Lt. Richard Wheelus
Lt. Richard Wheelus was a U.S. Air Force officer in whose honor the former American air base in Tripoli, Libya, was named.
E1130814 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: Lt. Richard Wheelus | Statement: [Wheelus Air Base, namedAfter, Lt. Richard Wheelus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lt. Richard Wheelus
Context triple: [Wheelus Air Base, namedAfter, Lt. Richard Wheelus]
  • A. Lieutenant Richard C. Saufley
    Lieutenant Richard C. Saufley was a pioneering early U.S. Navy aviator and flight instructor whose service and sacrifice helped advance naval aviation.
  • B. Maj. William Earl Brown
    Maj. William Earl Brown was a U.S. military aviator commemorated for his service and sacrifice, for whom Brown Field Municipal Airport in San Diego is named.
  • C. Lt. Frank Benjamin Tyndall
    Lt. Frank Benjamin Tyndall was a U.S. Army Air Service pilot and World War I flying ace after whom Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida is named.
  • D. Lieutenant William F. Kinderman
    Lieutenant William F. Kinderman is a seasoned, introspective police detective who investigates a series of gruesome, seemingly supernatural murders in the horror film *The Exorcist III*.
  • E. Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding
    Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding is the fast-talking, wisecracking Groucho Marx character who serves as the central comedic figure in the Marx Brothers film "Animal Crackers."
  • 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: Lt. Richard Wheelus
Triple: [Wheelus Air Base, namedAfter, Lt. Richard Wheelus]
Generated description
Lt. Richard Wheelus was a U.S. Air Force officer in whose honor the former American air base in Tripoli, Libya, was named.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lt. Richard Wheelus
Target entity description: Lt. Richard Wheelus was a U.S. Air Force officer in whose honor the former American air base in Tripoli, Libya, was named.
  • A. Lieutenant Richard C. Saufley
    Lieutenant Richard C. Saufley was a pioneering early U.S. Navy aviator and flight instructor whose service and sacrifice helped advance naval aviation.
  • B. Maj. William Earl Brown
    Maj. William Earl Brown was a U.S. military aviator commemorated for his service and sacrifice, for whom Brown Field Municipal Airport in San Diego is named.
  • C. Lt. Frank Benjamin Tyndall
    Lt. Frank Benjamin Tyndall was a U.S. Army Air Service pilot and World War I flying ace after whom Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida is named.
  • D. Lieutenant William F. Kinderman
    Lieutenant William F. Kinderman is a seasoned, introspective police detective who investigates a series of gruesome, seemingly supernatural murders in the horror film *The Exorcist III*.
  • E. Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding
    Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding is the fast-talking, wisecracking Groucho Marx character who serves as the central comedic figure in the Marx Brothers film "Animal Crackers."
  • 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_69d85ccbbcd48190acb56e7cf104d8ad completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded6fcebf481909f72cab577560d82 completed April 15, 2026, 12:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe8bef015c8190bdfb1b9144b2a55c completed May 9, 2026, 1:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe8fec76848190b83c6399aaacda76 completed May 9, 2026, 1:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe9090d23c8190b8a90e8ad8dacade completed May 9, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 2:52 a.m.