Triple

T17225731
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Steve Fossett E418108 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object James Stephen Fossett
James Stephen Fossett was an American businessman and record-setting adventurer best known for his solo circumnavigations of the globe by balloon and fixed-wing aircraft.
E1257548 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: James Stephen Fossett | Statement: [Steve Fossett, fullName, James Stephen Fossett]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Stephen Fossett
Context triple: [Steve Fossett, fullName, James Stephen Fossett]
  • A. James Farrior
    James Farrior is a former NFL linebacker best known as a defensive leader and Pro Bowl standout for the Pittsburgh Steelers, with whom he won two Super Bowls.
  • B. Daniel Stiepleman
    Daniel Stiepleman is an American screenwriter best known for writing the biographical legal drama film about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "On the Basis of Sex."
  • C. Michael Hunsaker
    Michael Hunsaker is a fictional former Vietnam War comrade of Roger Murtaugh whose involvement in a dangerous heroin-smuggling operation drives much of the plot in the action film "Lethal Weapon."
  • D. Mike Melvill
    Mike Melvill is a South African-born American test pilot best known as the first commercial astronaut, having piloted the privately funded SpaceShipOne on its historic suborbital flights.
  • E. Mitchell Amundsen
    Mitchell Amundsen is an American cinematographer known for his work on high-profile action and blockbuster films.
  • 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: James Stephen Fossett
Triple: [Steve Fossett, fullName, James Stephen Fossett]
Generated description
James Stephen Fossett was an American businessman and record-setting adventurer best known for his solo circumnavigations of the globe by balloon and fixed-wing aircraft.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Stephen Fossett
Target entity description: James Stephen Fossett was an American businessman and record-setting adventurer best known for his solo circumnavigations of the globe by balloon and fixed-wing aircraft.
  • A. James Farrior
    James Farrior is a former NFL linebacker best known as a defensive leader and Pro Bowl standout for the Pittsburgh Steelers, with whom he won two Super Bowls.
  • B. Daniel Stiepleman
    Daniel Stiepleman is an American screenwriter best known for writing the biographical legal drama film about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "On the Basis of Sex."
  • C. Michael Hunsaker
    Michael Hunsaker is a fictional former Vietnam War comrade of Roger Murtaugh whose involvement in a dangerous heroin-smuggling operation drives much of the plot in the action film "Lethal Weapon."
  • D. Mike Melvill
    Mike Melvill is a South African-born American test pilot best known as the first commercial astronaut, having piloted the privately funded SpaceShipOne on its historic suborbital flights.
  • E. Mitchell Amundsen
    Mitchell Amundsen is an American cinematographer known for his work on high-profile action and blockbuster films.
  • 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_69d886d779488190b131369541c04e7d completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e42de0a8dc819093d9c8fb4f80342c completed April 19, 2026, 1:20 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01675cc70881909cf39b2e229f5d1e completed May 11, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a016a5f58408190b42a8da742aa2f5b completed May 11, 2026, 5:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a016b0e72588190b1ba2b45f0425d3d completed May 11, 2026, 5:37 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:38 a.m.