Triple

T1815378
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McDonnell Douglas E40424 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Donald Wills Douglas Sr.
Donald Wills Douglas Sr. was an American aircraft designer and industrialist who founded the Douglas Aircraft Company, a major pioneer in commercial and military aviation.
E205731 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: Donald Wills Douglas Sr. | Statement: [McDonnell Douglas, foundedBy, Donald Wills Douglas Sr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald Wills Douglas Sr.
Context triple: [McDonnell Douglas, foundedBy, Donald Wills Douglas Sr.]
  • A. William E. Boeing
    William E. Boeing was an American aviation pioneer and industrialist who founded the Boeing Company, which became one of the world’s largest aerospace manufacturers.
  • B. James Smith McDonnell
    James Smith McDonnell was an American aerospace engineer and businessman who founded the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, which later became part of the major aerospace and defense company McDonnell Douglas.
  • C. Wilfrid Kent Hughes
    Wilfrid Kent Hughes was an Australian politician and sports administrator who played a leading role in organizing the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games.
  • D. Howard Hughes
    Howard Hughes was a reclusive American business magnate, film producer, and pioneering aviator known for his vast wealth, record-setting flights, and increasingly eccentric behavior.
  • E. Elrey Borge Jeppesen
    Elrey Borge Jeppesen was an American aviation pioneer and entrepreneur best known for creating the first standardized aeronautical navigation charts and founding the company that became a global leader in flight information services.
  • 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: Donald Wills Douglas Sr.
Triple: [McDonnell Douglas, foundedBy, Donald Wills Douglas Sr.]
Generated description
Donald Wills Douglas Sr. was an American aircraft designer and industrialist who founded the Douglas Aircraft Company, a major pioneer in commercial and military aviation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald Wills Douglas Sr.
Target entity description: Donald Wills Douglas Sr. was an American aircraft designer and industrialist who founded the Douglas Aircraft Company, a major pioneer in commercial and military aviation.
  • A. William E. Boeing
    William E. Boeing was an American aviation pioneer and industrialist who founded the Boeing Company, which became one of the world’s largest aerospace manufacturers.
  • B. James Smith McDonnell
    James Smith McDonnell was an American aerospace engineer and businessman who founded the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, which later became part of the major aerospace and defense company McDonnell Douglas.
  • C. Wilfrid Kent Hughes
    Wilfrid Kent Hughes was an Australian politician and sports administrator who played a leading role in organizing the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games.
  • D. Howard Hughes
    Howard Hughes was a reclusive American business magnate, film producer, and pioneering aviator known for his vast wealth, record-setting flights, and increasingly eccentric behavior.
  • E. Elrey Borge Jeppesen
    Elrey Borge Jeppesen was an American aviation pioneer and entrepreneur best known for creating the first standardized aeronautical navigation charts and founding the company that became a global leader in flight information services.
  • 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_69a8864526c081908a3a4d74f689e2c5 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa65f4628481909ca8e4c2302752ac completed March 6, 2026, 5:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adc9ac97e081908ab1d30fa41c3e9b completed March 8, 2026, 7:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adcb1466788190bdcb50107d838f83 completed March 8, 2026, 7:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adcbf5b0b881909d43c748034481f4 completed March 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.