Triple

T3009425
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject UFOs E81980 entity
Predicate notableEvent P259 FINISHED
Object 1947 Kenneth Arnold sighting
The 1947 Kenneth Arnold sighting was a landmark UFO incident near Mount Rainier, Washington, that popularized the term "flying saucer" and sparked the modern era of UFO interest in the United States.
E318042 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: 1947 Kenneth Arnold sighting | Statement: [UFOs, notableEvent, 1947 Kenneth Arnold sighting]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1947 Kenneth Arnold sighting
Context triple: [UFOs, notableEvent, 1947 Kenneth Arnold sighting]
  • A. 1947 Roswell UFO incident
    The 1947 Roswell UFO incident is a famous event in New Mexico involving the alleged crash of an unidentified flying object, which sparked decades of conspiracy theories and popular interest in extraterrestrial life.
  • B. 2009 Fort Totten crash
    The 2009 Fort Totten crash was a deadly rear-end collision between two Washington Metro trains on the Red Line in Washington, D.C., that became the system’s worst accident and prompted major safety reforms.
  • C. U-2 incident of 1960
    The U-2 incident of 1960 was a Cold War crisis in which an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union, severely damaging U.S.–Soviet relations and derailing a planned summit between their leaders.
  • D. Lockheed U-2
    The Lockheed U-2 is a high-altitude American reconnaissance aircraft designed for intelligence gathering missions, particularly during the Cold War.
  • E. Sky Witness
    Sky Witness is a British pay television channel from Sky that primarily broadcasts crime dramas, medical procedurals, and other US-imported series.
  • 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: 1947 Kenneth Arnold sighting
Triple: [UFOs, notableEvent, 1947 Kenneth Arnold sighting]
Generated description
The 1947 Kenneth Arnold sighting was a landmark UFO incident near Mount Rainier, Washington, that popularized the term "flying saucer" and sparked the modern era of UFO interest in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1947 Kenneth Arnold sighting
Target entity description: The 1947 Kenneth Arnold sighting was a landmark UFO incident near Mount Rainier, Washington, that popularized the term "flying saucer" and sparked the modern era of UFO interest in the United States.
  • A. 1947 Roswell UFO incident
    The 1947 Roswell UFO incident is a famous event in New Mexico involving the alleged crash of an unidentified flying object, which sparked decades of conspiracy theories and popular interest in extraterrestrial life.
  • B. 2009 Fort Totten crash
    The 2009 Fort Totten crash was a deadly rear-end collision between two Washington Metro trains on the Red Line in Washington, D.C., that became the system’s worst accident and prompted major safety reforms.
  • C. U-2 incident of 1960
    The U-2 incident of 1960 was a Cold War crisis in which an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union, severely damaging U.S.–Soviet relations and derailing a planned summit between their leaders.
  • D. Lockheed U-2
    The Lockheed U-2 is a high-altitude American reconnaissance aircraft designed for intelligence gathering missions, particularly during the Cold War.
  • E. Sky Witness
    Sky Witness is a British pay television channel from Sky that primarily broadcasts crime dramas, medical procedurals, and other US-imported series.
  • 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_69ad8b1c4de88190a83b7cefaa1f2842 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9a4ccbf08190a7580c9e758804d0 completed March 8, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b12e5f612c8190824deb0813a9f981 completed March 11, 2026, 8:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b12eec384881908e6bbb6b52a3f607 completed March 11, 2026, 8:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1ca54a5ec8190b8f35119ae23051f completed March 11, 2026, 8:02 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3 p.m.