Triple

T15734324
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Stout Metal Airplane Division of Ford E381428 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object William Bushnell Stout
William Bushnell Stout was an American engineer and aviation pioneer best known for designing the Ford Trimotor and advancing all-metal aircraft construction.
E1181227 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 Bushnell Stout | Statement: [Stout Metal Airplane Division of Ford, foundedBy, William Bushnell Stout]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Bushnell Stout
Context triple: [Stout Metal Airplane Division of Ford, foundedBy, William Bushnell Stout]
  • A. Walter Watson Hughes
    Walter Watson Hughes was a 19th-century Scottish-Australian pastoralist and philanthropist whose substantial donations were pivotal in establishing higher education in South Australia.
  • B. Walter H. Beech
    Walter H. Beech was an American aviation pioneer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the Beech Aircraft Corporation, a major manufacturer of general aviation and military aircraft.
  • C. Glenn Curtis
    Glenn Curtis was an American basketball coach best known for leading the early NBA franchise that became the Detroit Falcons.
  • D. Jack Northrop
    Jack Northrop was an influential American aircraft designer and aviation pioneer best known for founding the Northrop Corporation and advancing flying wing and all-metal aircraft designs.
  • E. Glenn L. Martin
    Glenn L. Martin was an American aviation pioneer and industrialist who founded one of the early major aircraft manufacturing companies in the United States.
  • 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 Bushnell Stout
Triple: [Stout Metal Airplane Division of Ford, foundedBy, William Bushnell Stout]
Generated description
William Bushnell Stout was an American engineer and aviation pioneer best known for designing the Ford Trimotor and advancing all-metal aircraft construction.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Bushnell Stout
Target entity description: William Bushnell Stout was an American engineer and aviation pioneer best known for designing the Ford Trimotor and advancing all-metal aircraft construction.
  • A. Walter Watson Hughes
    Walter Watson Hughes was a 19th-century Scottish-Australian pastoralist and philanthropist whose substantial donations were pivotal in establishing higher education in South Australia.
  • B. Walter H. Beech
    Walter H. Beech was an American aviation pioneer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the Beech Aircraft Corporation, a major manufacturer of general aviation and military aircraft.
  • C. Glenn Curtis
    Glenn Curtis was an American basketball coach best known for leading the early NBA franchise that became the Detroit Falcons.
  • D. Jack Northrop
    Jack Northrop was an influential American aircraft designer and aviation pioneer best known for founding the Northrop Corporation and advancing flying wing and all-metal aircraft designs.
  • E. Glenn L. Martin
    Glenn L. Martin was an American aviation pioneer and industrialist who founded one of the early major aircraft manufacturing companies in the United States.
  • 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_69d86d9cdb648190bf3171be0bd7d872 completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04fd586a88190aa1b1b88368d386f completed April 16, 2026, 2:56 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffa9341a0c81909057dc338f218b85 completed May 9, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffaa3903408190b7beaa6b461bd2bd completed May 9, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffab0c79d4819085f0ed6a4edcb7fb completed May 9, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:46 a.m.