Triple
T3115112
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Easton, Connecticut |
E65043
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasHistoricResident |
P1092
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Gustave Whitehead
Gustave Whitehead was an early aviation pioneer who controversially is claimed by some historians to have achieved powered flight before the Wright brothers.
|
E327868
|
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: Gustave Whitehead | Statement: [Easton, Connecticut, hasHistoricResident, Gustave Whitehead]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gustave Whitehead Context triple: [Easton, Connecticut, hasHistoricResident, Gustave Whitehead]
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A.
Samuel Pierpont Langley
Samuel Pierpont Langley was an American astronomer, physicist, and aviation pioneer known for his early experiments with heavier-than-air flight and for serving as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
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B.
Alberto Santos-Dumont
Alberto Santos-Dumont was a pioneering Brazilian aviation inventor and aeronautical engineer, celebrated for his early dirigible flights and contributions to the development of heavier-than-air aircraft in the early 20th century.
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C.
Wilbur Wright
Wilbur Wright was an American aviation pioneer who, with his brother Orville, achieved the first controlled, powered airplane flights and helped usher in the age of modern aviation.
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D.
Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky was a pioneering aviation engineer and inventor best known for developing the first successful practical helicopters and advancing both fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft design.
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E.
Robert H. Goddard
Robert H. Goddard was an American physicist and engineer widely regarded as the father of modern rocketry for pioneering the development of liquid-fueled rockets.
- 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: Gustave Whitehead Triple: [Easton, Connecticut, hasHistoricResident, Gustave Whitehead]
Generated description
Gustave Whitehead was an early aviation pioneer who controversially is claimed by some historians to have achieved powered flight before the Wright brothers.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gustave Whitehead Target entity description: Gustave Whitehead was an early aviation pioneer who controversially is claimed by some historians to have achieved powered flight before the Wright brothers.
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A.
Samuel Pierpont Langley
Samuel Pierpont Langley was an American astronomer, physicist, and aviation pioneer known for his early experiments with heavier-than-air flight and for serving as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
-
B.
Alberto Santos-Dumont
Alberto Santos-Dumont was a pioneering Brazilian aviation inventor and aeronautical engineer, celebrated for his early dirigible flights and contributions to the development of heavier-than-air aircraft in the early 20th century.
-
C.
Wilbur Wright
Wilbur Wright was an American aviation pioneer who, with his brother Orville, achieved the first controlled, powered airplane flights and helped usher in the age of modern aviation.
-
D.
Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky was a pioneering aviation engineer and inventor best known for developing the first successful practical helicopters and advancing both fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft design.
-
E.
Robert H. Goddard
Robert H. Goddard was an American physicist and engineer widely regarded as the father of modern rocketry for pioneering the development of liquid-fueled rockets.
- 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_69ad857fcc088190b0c4d45a5cde6f61 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ada4e40bc48190b9b17c706a2450d5 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 4:33 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b2039b11d4819095ee77d84d6e7b8a |
completed | March 12, 2026, 12:06 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b20563abdc8190a51e1cfbcc6e0075 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 12:14 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b205f1b3c08190a63fd9494dc8aee8 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 12:16 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:04 p.m.