Triple

T1951535
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Airlines Flight 11 E42168 entity
Predicate hijacker P2363 FINISHED
Object Wail al-Shehri
Wail al-Shehri was a Saudi national and al-Qaeda operative who participated as one of the suicide hijackers in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.
E258165 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: Wail al-Shehri | Statement: [American Airlines Flight 11, hijacker, Wail al-Shehri]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wail al-Shehri
Context triple: [American Airlines Flight 11, hijacker, Wail al-Shehri]
  • A. Wasfi al-Tal
    Wasfi al-Tal was a prominent Jordanian politician and prime minister known for his hardline stance against Palestinian guerrilla groups, which led to his assassination by Black September in 1971.
  • B. Anas al-Abdah
    Anas al-Abdah is a Syrian opposition politician who has held senior leadership roles in exile-based bodies opposing Bashar al-Assad’s government during the Syrian Civil War.
  • C. Subhi al-Tufayli
    Subhi al-Tufayli is a Lebanese Shia cleric and political figure best known as a founding leader and former secretary-general of Hezbollah who later became a vocal critic of the organization.
  • D. Abdullah Hammoud
    Abdullah Hammoud is an American politician who became the first Arab American and Muslim mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, known for his progressive policies and advocacy for public health and civil rights.
  • E. al-Mardawi
    Al-Mardawi was a prominent medieval Hanbali jurist and legal theorist known for his authoritative works on Islamic jurisprudence within the Hanbali school.
  • 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: Wail al-Shehri
Triple: [American Airlines Flight 11, hijacker, Wail al-Shehri]
Generated description
Wail al-Shehri was a Saudi national and al-Qaeda operative who participated as one of the suicide hijackers in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wail al-Shehri
Target entity description: Wail al-Shehri was a Saudi national and al-Qaeda operative who participated as one of the suicide hijackers in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.
  • A. Wasfi al-Tal
    Wasfi al-Tal was a prominent Jordanian politician and prime minister known for his hardline stance against Palestinian guerrilla groups, which led to his assassination by Black September in 1971.
  • B. Anas al-Abdah
    Anas al-Abdah is a Syrian opposition politician who has held senior leadership roles in exile-based bodies opposing Bashar al-Assad’s government during the Syrian Civil War.
  • C. Subhi al-Tufayli
    Subhi al-Tufayli is a Lebanese Shia cleric and political figure best known as a founding leader and former secretary-general of Hezbollah who later became a vocal critic of the organization.
  • D. Abdullah Hammoud
    Abdullah Hammoud is an American politician who became the first Arab American and Muslim mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, known for his progressive policies and advocacy for public health and civil rights.
  • E. al-Mardawi
    Al-Mardawi was a prominent medieval Hanbali jurist and legal theorist known for his authoritative works on Islamic jurisprudence within the Hanbali school.
  • 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_69a8870e08fc8190a319cbf2600db15f completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb7c698748190a10da0901952df07 completed March 7, 2026, 5:29 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae95eb4db481909ab7507147f1d674 completed March 9, 2026, 9:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae96b399608190bfa846c433612142 completed March 9, 2026, 9:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae977aac9c8190b5fecd5fea8893fd completed March 9, 2026, 9:48 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:36 p.m.