Triple
T16095527
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William S. Knudsen |
E390472
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entity |
| Predicate | alsoKnownAs |
P39
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Signius Knudsen |
E390472
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 Signius Knudsen | Statement: [William S. Knudsen, alsoKnownAs, William Signius Knudsen]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Signius Knudsen Context triple: [William S. Knudsen, alsoKnownAs, William Signius Knudsen]
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A.
Jens Martin Knudsen
Jens Martin Knudsen was a Danish astrophysicist best known for his work on Martian meteorites and his key scientific role in NASA’s Mars Pathfinder mission.
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B.
Poul Martin Bendix
Poul Martin Bendix is a physicist and academic known for supervising and mentoring researchers such as Lene Vestergaard Hau during their doctoral studies.
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C.
Peter B. Bendix
Peter B. Bendix is a computer scientist known for co-developing the Knuth–Bendix completion algorithm, a fundamental method in automated theorem proving and term rewriting systems.
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D.
Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen
chosen
Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, better known as William S. Knudsen, was a Danish-American automotive executive and U.S. government production chief who played a key role in organizing American industrial output during World War II.
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E.
Morris H. Knudsen
Morris H. Knudsen was an American construction engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the major engineering and construction firm Morrison-Knudsen.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d87f198bc48190a8b7e53ca15b7ead |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:39 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e1859283008190baac96142b5c7e53 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 12:57 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fff29da7008190aebeb35113e726ef |
completed | May 10, 2026, 2:51 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:59 a.m.